How to Use telethon in a Sentence

telethon

noun
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  • This year, the telethon will be staged at the food bank.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 25 Nov. 2020
  • Over the years, the telethon raised $2.45 billion for MDA.
    — Ruth Kinane, EW.com, 9 Sep. 2020
  • And the activists of the One World telethon can’t undo that.
    — Armond White, National Review, 22 Apr. 2020
  • Despite having the look and feel of a telethon, the show was a hit.
    — Nathan Whitlock, The New York Review of Books, 3 Nov. 2020
  • The telethon will be livestreamed from 6 p.m. to midnight May 8.
    — Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Here’s the details about the telethon, where to watch and what to expect.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 3 Dec. 2020
  • Lewis hosted the group's Labor Day telethon for decades.
    — Michael Heaton, cleveland.com, 23 Aug. 2017
  • WEWS Channel 5 will air the telethon with live shots of the phone bank beginning at 4 p.m.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 25 Nov. 2020
  • When the event went off the air at 8 p.m., the telethon had raised more than $2.4 million for Kentucky Flood Relief.
    — Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Some of the most notable names in sports will participate in the telethon.
    — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Aug. 2019
  • The year before, the Leonards had held a telethon to save the team from folding in Indianapolis.
    — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, USA TODAY, 22 June 2022
  • The annual telethon will be held Friday from 8 a.m. to noon.
    — Shawn R. Beals, Courant Community, 21 Dec. 2017
  • The telethon will also air on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
    — Mallorie Sullivan, Cincinnati.com, 5 Sep. 2017
  • For more information on the telethon, click or tap here.
    — Mallorie Sullivan, Cincinnati.com, 5 Sep. 2017
  • The event will culminate with a telethon Friday, Dec. 4.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 3 Dec. 2020
  • The telethon concluded a six-week campaign to help children in need.
    — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 26 May 2017
  • Sadeghi worked with Paltrow on the Stand Up 2 Cancer telethon and became a mentor.
    — Marisa Meltzer, Town & Country, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Due to social distancing, most of the telethon will be pre-recorded.
    — Elizabeth Montgomery, The Arizona Republic, 22 Aug. 2020
  • But helping our friends in Texas, and now Florida, can’t end with an hour-long telethon.
    — Southern Living, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Ms. Crouch was to be a guest at a telethon for the Trinity Broadcasting Network.
    — Matt Stevens, New York Times, 7 June 2017
  • Details will be coming soon on the exact date of the virtual telethon.
    — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 14 Apr. 2020
  • The Mad Ones’ devised theater work, about a group of high school teachers in the late 1980s meeting to plan a fund-raiser, ends its telethon.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Robin Hood's site will say open after this telethon is over because this battle is far from over.
    — Ashley Boucher, PEOPLE.com, 12 May 2020
  • Their telethon was livelier and better-produced than the Democrats’.
    — Willie Brown, SFChronicle.com, 29 Aug. 2020
  • The Rolling Jubilee launched via a livestreamed telethon in 2012, on the one-year anniversary of Zuccotti’s eviction.
    — Ryann Liebenthal, The New Republic, 19 Apr. 2021
  • This event is taking the telethon format and giving it a 21st-century twist.
    — Tiney Ricciardi, The Know, 14 Apr. 2020
  • Wells: Hasn’t the celebrity telethon been a staple of crises for generations?
    — The Atlantic, 24 Apr. 2020
  • The telethon debuted last year as a way to help artists struggling because of the pandemic, and Nelson was part of it then, too.
    — Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 12 May 2021
  • But as Chase, now 18, struggles to make the transition to adult stardom, she is lured back to the industry and produces a mental health telethon designed to boost his flagging record sales.
    — Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2023
  • In this episode, Brooke, the eldest sister who works as a manager, has become crazed with her desire to be close to power, and decides to put on a telethon in support of mental health.
    — The New Yorker, 12 July 2023

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