Used in a Sentence

marathon

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for marathon.

Editorial note

What's hard is stopping the next Boston marathon bomber without doing more damage to our country than the next Boston marathon bomber would do.

Examples16
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A 42.195-kilometre (26-mile-385-yard) road race.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of marathon gathered in one view.

noun

A 42.195-kilometre (26-mile-385-yard) road race.

noun

A town in Attica, Greece, the site of the victory in 490 BC of heavily outnumbered Athenians against Persians.

noun

Former name of Snickers (“chocolate bar brand”).

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for marathon.

noun

A 42.195-kilometre (26-mile-385-yard) road race.

noun

A town in Attica, Greece, the site of the victory in 490 BC of heavily outnumbered Athenians against Persians.

noun

Former name of Snickers (“chocolate bar brand”).

noun

A city in the Florida Keys, Monroe County, Florida.

Example sentences

1

What's hard is stopping the next Boston marathon bomber without doing more damage to our country than the next Boston marathon bomber would do.

2

I'd say that 1/26th of the effort of running a marathon is taking the first step, never mind the first mile.

3

On a hot day, the two scientists wrote, a human could even outrun a horse in a 26.2-mile marathon.

4

You'll need to tag those instances as they're launching so Marathon will know they're public/private respectively.

5

At most, they shifted from organized plots (like that of 9/11) to less-organized events (like that of the Boston Marathon bombing).

6

And that's hard, because despite the loss of life, the Boston Marathon bomber didn't actually do much damage to our country.

7

But if you're doing a 3h whiteboard marathon or work from your own chair?

8

What's hard to answer is how do you stop the next Boston marathon bomber.

9

This reminds me somewhat of reddit's DIY investigation into the Boston marathon bombings.

10

Not only how do you stop the next Boston marathon bomber—that's relatively simple.

11

The likes of Mesos, the Mesosphere ecosystem with Marathon and Chronos, and Docker Swarm bring only the primitive parts of the whole picture.

12

The 1980s and 1990s changed that and the Dotcom Boom made the Startups and marathon coding that required more time per week to work.

Quote examples

1

I did this "the long way" over the last 8 years taking it as a marathon more than a sprint.

Proper noun examples

1

Marathon is a generic end-user framework for accessing those functions and runs on top of Mesos.

2

Then Marathon/Aurora/Hadoop/etc tells Mesos to farm out compute jobs to these end client nodes (aka schedules).

3

Thereby giving you a more opinionated layout for your compute cluster, while running other peer Mesos services, such as Hadoop, Chronos And Marathon.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use marathon in a sentence?

What's hard is stopping the next Boston marathon bomber without doing more damage to our country than the next Boston marathon bomber would do.

What does marathon mean?

A 42.195-kilometre (26-mile-385-yard) road race.

What part of speech is marathon?

marathon is commonly used as noun.