How to Use marathoner in a Sentence

marathoner

noun
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  • So some half marathoners ran the full 13.1-mile course.
    — Jeff Metcalfe, azcentral, 19 Jan. 2020
  • To be a good marathoner and a good NBA team, the entire race is a sprint.
    — Mike Bianchi, orlandosentinel.com, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Kipchoge is arguably the best marathoner in the world for the past four years.
    — Chris Chavez, SI.com, 11 June 2018
  • Any marathoner knows that a good pair of shoes can give you an edge.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Apr. 2018
  • The Kenyan marathoner is already the sport’s world record holder.
    — Laine Higgins, wsj.com, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Ted Corbitt, an Olympic marathoner in 1952, was one of them.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2021
  • Sooki had been a marathoner, though her best event was a 10K trail run.
    — Ann Patchett, Harper's Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
  • On top of this, one Friends marathoner will receive all ten seasons of the show on Blu-Ray.
    — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 1 Mar. 2021
  • From there, the 3:20 marathoner needs to get comfortable at half marathon pace.
    — Jay Johnson, Outside Online, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Kenyan marathoner Peres Jepchirchir has had a pretty good year.
    — Laine Higgins, WSJ, 10 June 2022
  • As any marathoner would do, Cook timed his run in 4 hours, 44 minutes.
    — oregonlive, 23 Apr. 2020
  • The feat underscored the 37-year-old Kenyan as perhaps the greatest men’s marathoner of all time.
    — Rachel Bachman, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2022
  • The death of 53-year-old marathoner Henryk Gudelski late last month in New Britain struck a chord across the state.
    — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 12 July 2021
  • And Eliud Kipchoge, the fastest marathoner in the world, also trains with a group and does most of his workouts with them.
    — Jennie Coughlin, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2023
  • From the new runner to the more seasoned marathoner, there is a race for everyone.
    — Layla McMurtrie, Detroit Free Press, 9 June 2022
  • To any marathoners running this weekend, good luck—and please stay safe.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 Mar. 2020
  • At the end of the pier, marathoners were lowering themselves into a hole cut out of 8-inch thick ice.
    — Lisa Lucas, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2024
  • But as any marathoner will tell you, the race’s first quarter tends to go pretty smoothly.
    — Chris Taylor, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2022
  • For women marathoners, there is more money to be won and new investment in the sport.
    — Talya Minsberg, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2023
  • You down your freshly poured whiskey like a dehydrated marathoner at the end of a race.
    — Sara K. Runnel, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Half marathoner Kate Schwab of Brooklyn is a fan of this Athleta pick.
    — Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Why would an elite marathoner and two-time Olympian take up the rigors (steep terrain) and risks (bloody knees and worse) of trail running at age 40?
    — John Meyer, The Know, 14 June 2019
  • Taylor and Bruce train with Northern Arizona Elite and are best known as marathoners.
    — Jeff Metcalfe, azcentral, 25 July 2019
  • And people are taking note -- marathoners from all over the world go there to train before major races.
    — Faith Karimi and Idris Mukhtar, CNN, 6 Nov. 2019
  • Now, a new study says marathoners may have different bugs in their stomachs that help them run.
    — Martin Finucane, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2019
  • Some marathoners try to qualify for the Boston Marathon.
    — Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 26 Sep. 2019
  • Most seasoned marathoners use that (week before) to go to cryo-therapy and do one to two workouts to flush out the legs.
    — Jeff Forward, Houston Chronicle, 26 Feb. 2020
  • Together, under the guidance of the coach Patrick Sang, Kamworor and Kipchoge have become two of the best marathoners in the world.
    — New York Times, 3 Nov. 2019
  • Vaporflys have been on the feet of elite marathoners since 2016, a short span of time in which the event’s record books have been completely rewritten.
    — J.s., The Economist, 13 Oct. 2019
  • Evan Kim is a 5-foot-tall tween who wants to be an elementary school teacher — and the fastest 12-year-old marathoner ever.
    — Jenny Gold, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024

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