How to Use pentathlon in a Sentence

pentathlon

noun
  • The game is a six-legged pentathlon that takes place on a rainbow track.
    — Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Owen, who has the build of a pentathlon competitor, shoved his way through.
    — Christopher Buckley, Esquire, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Britain’s Joseph Choong set an Olympic record to win the men’s pentathlon.
    — San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Aug. 2021
  • Those two medals, in the pentathlon and decathlon, are at the heart of Thorpe’s legacy.
    — Louis Moore, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Agbor notched a personal record in the shot put and high jump, winning the pentathlon with a score of 3,030.
    — Mitch Fink, BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2023
  • During the pentathlon, long jumpers used to rock back and forth to the rhythms of live flute music, then run and leap while swinging two heavy weights to increase their momentum.
    — Philip Montgomery, New York Times, 25 July 2024
  • On Thursday, the Hornets tallied 47 points between the pentathlon and pole vault events.
    — Josh Schafer, BostonGlobe.com, 26 May 2018
  • Jim Thorpe won two gold medals in the 1912 Olympic Games for pentathlon and decathlon.
    — Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Thorpe won both the pentathlon and decathlon at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm.
    — Clarisa Diaz, Quartz, 28 July 2021
  • The obstacle courses will join running, swimming, shooting and fencing as the five events that make up the Olympic pentathlon.
    — Justin Klawans, The Week Us, theweek, 14 Aug. 2024
  • The senior won the state pentathlon and qualified for the New Balance Nationals.
    — Brian Roach, Boston Herald, 8 May 2024
  • Jenna Fee Feyerabend won the pentathlon, claiming firsts in the high jump and shot put plus second in the long jump and 60 meters.
    — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2025
  • The heptathlon conference title marked the second of her career for Cano, who won the pentathlon in 2020.
    — Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 9 May 2022
  • While they have not been contested at every games and the rules were quite different, boxing, wrestling, and the pentathlon were part of the Ancient Olympic games.
    — Jessica Koscielniak, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
  • Marshall's older sister, Amiyah Williams, showed her ability in the 13-14 year-old girls pentathlon and placed fifth.
    — Alex Kushel, Sun-Sentinel.com, 7 July 2018
  • Ky'shawn Byrd also performed in the 100-meter and long jump, with Isaac Belfort entering the pentathlon.
    — Alex Kushel, Sun-Sentinel.com, 13 Aug. 2017
  • Right fielder Jim Thorpe, the 1912 Olympic decathlon and pentathlon champion, stepped to the plate.
    — Mark Schmetzer, Cincinnati.com, 12 June 2019
  • Perhaps Thorpe is most remembered for taking pentathlon and decathlon gold in the 1912 Olympics despite a lack of formal training in track and field.
    — Carvell Wallace, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2017
  • Thorpe headed to the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm to compete in the decathlon and another now-defunct track contest, the pentathlon.
    — New York Times, 15 July 2022
  • But Press and her sister, Irina — who won gold medals in the 80-meter hurdles in Rome and in the pentathlon in Tokyo — received more than glory from their athletic careers.
    — New York Times, 4 May 2021
  • Playing against the University of Pittsburgh in 1911, the future Olympic gold medalist in both the decathlon and pentathlon blasted a long arching punt from near his own goal line.
    — WSJ, 22 June 2018
  • The key for the Hornets was the pentathlon, as Sophia Gallivan finished second, Lindsey Crook finished fourth and Shea Tassinary finished eighth.
    — Patrick Plunkett, Boston Herald, 1 June 2026
  • Freshman Liisa-Maria Lusti became the second Oregon woman to win the pentathlon — first since Brianne Theisen-Eaton in 2012 — with a season-best 4,498 points.
    — ABC News, 13 Mar. 2026

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