How to Use marathoner in a Sentence

marathoner

noun
  • Any marathoner knows that a good pair of shoes can give you an edge.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Kipchoge is arguably the best marathoner in the world for the past four years.
    — Chris Chavez, SI.com, 11 June 2018
  • To any marathoners running this weekend, good luck—and please stay safe.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 Mar. 2020
  • Kenyan marathoner Peres Jepchirchir has had a pretty good year.
    — Laine Higgins, WSJ, 10 June 2022
  • Sooki had been a marathoner, though her best event was a 10K trail run.
    — Ann Patchett, Harper's Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
  • The Kenyan marathoner is already the sport’s world record holder.
    — Laine Higgins, wsj.com, 14 Apr. 2023
  • But as any marathoner will tell you, the race’s first quarter tends to go pretty smoothly.
    — Chris Taylor, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2022
  • The race is the Olympian marathoner's third marathon since getting pregnant.
    — Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 23 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • The 10-time marathoner has only run once on the treadmill over the past eight weeks.
    — Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald, 1 Feb. 2026
  • For women marathoners, there is more money to be won and new investment in the sport.
    — Talya Minsberg, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2023
  • From the new runner to the more seasoned marathoner, there is a race for everyone.
    — Layla McMurtrie, Detroit Free Press, 9 June 2022
  • As any marathoner would do, Cook timed his run in 4 hours, 44 minutes.
    — oregonlive, 23 Apr. 2020
  • To be a good marathoner and a good NBA team, the entire race is a sprint.
    — Mike Bianchi, orlandosentinel.com, 23 Oct. 2019
  • What running does to the knees, according to a large survey of marathoners.
    — NBC news, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Geller's father was a 10-time marathoner who only ran in Nikes.
    — Hannarose McGuinness, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
  • But inside your body, an even more complex process is going on—one most marathoners know little about.
    — Richard A. Lovett, Outside, 19 Oct. 2025
  • He is widely tipped to be one of the greatest marathoners of his generation.
    — Liam Tharme, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Going back to the running metaphor, the marathoner places one foot in front of another to reach the finish line.
    — Nicole Lipkin, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
  • Throngs lined the sides of the street, frantically waving cow bells and cheering as the marathoners came by.
    — Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2017
  • The mostly flat course brings marathoners over ancient bridges, through medieval alleys and along the Arno.
    — Jennifer Kester, Forbes.com, 18 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • The 2016 Olympic marathon bronze medalist mostly is a marathoner now.
    — Ken Goe, OregonLive.com, 16 June 2017
  • Doubling the amount of marathoners is a sprint to a year-end economic boost for all of Sacramento.
    — Ashley Sharp, CBS News, 4 June 2026
  • Advertisement Cronin doesn’t feel like a marathoner who has breasted the tape so much as one in the middle of a race.
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2024
  • The feat underscored the 37-year-old Kenyan as perhaps the greatest men’s marathoner of all time.
    — Rachel Bachman, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • Half marathoner Kate Schwab of Brooklyn is a fan of this Athleta pick.
    — Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Mar. 2024

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