How to Use marathoner in a Sentence

marathoner

noun
  • 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
  • What does all this mean for the marathoner or the Ironwoman?
    Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 13 Sep. 2011
  • And isn’t that what the most determined of marathoners do?
    Jeff Miller, Orange County Register, 16 Mar. 2017
  • 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 2016 Olympic marathon bronze medalist mostly is a marathoner now.
    Ken Goe, OregonLive.com, 16 June 2017
  • The feat underscored the 37-year-old Kenyan as perhaps the greatest men’s marathoner of all time.
    Rachel Bachman, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2022
  • Our sneakers joined the patter of about 100 marathoners.
    Andrew W. Lehren, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2017
  • 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
  • In the years that followed, the Olympics opened up not just to women marathoners but to female athletes in all sports.
    Maggie Mertens, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2024
  • To any marathoners running this weekend, good luck—and please stay safe.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 Mar. 2020
  • Some runners shaved key seconds or, in the case of marathoners, two to four minutes off their times.
    Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 July 2024
  • 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
  • Hasay enters this race as a proven marathoner with her two stellar races.
    Chris Chavez, SI.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Throngs lined the sides of the street, frantically waving cow bells and cheering as the marathoners came by.
    Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2017
  • 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
  • One of the few studies to examine this question looked at the 150 best female marathoners worldwide.
    Sejal Parekh, ABC News, 31 July 2024

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