Words similar to telethon

Example sentences for: telethon

How can you use “telethon” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The OED insists telethon is “orig.
That forms like sale-athon retain the a even after the base element's e demonstrates that the -athon of marathon , rather than the -ethon of telethon , is perceived as the primary form of the suffix, but the matter has not been completely settled: consider alcothon (which I hope was a test of abstinence rather than indulgence).
Then in 1949 the San Francisco Examiner reported on a telethon , cautiously enclosing the word in quotation marks to show it was a neologism.
Even though the American taste for plundering placenames has provided words like telethon to other nations, some have commited semantic thefts of their own.
In any case, telethon took hold quickly.