Sentence examples for a real marathon from inspiring English sources

"Van der Kelen is a real marathon," he said.

It's a real marathon, that place, it's relentless.

It was a real marathon for the riders as they competed in various events over each consecutive night.

The five-hour show is a real marathon for the four performers, and they've only done it once so far.

It was one of the most joyous, awe-inspiring things I have ever seen in this city, cathartic in a way that the real marathon could never have been.

It is a feat he has accomplished several times, and it hardly holds a candle to his real marathon, when he played all of Bach's organ works -- 16 hours -- in one day.

And so we set out on Monday at 7 51 a.m., in weak sunlight that promised a warm, yellow-leaf day, from one of Baltic's super-narrow brick town houses, around to roaring, belching Fourth Avenue — where the real marathon would pass in a few days — down through the brownstones of Warren to bustling, ever-gentrifying Fifth.

Phone conversations with friends show that I spent that entire weekend in New York, watching a "Real World Marathon" on MTV.

The real marathon competition is often between the so-called serious runners and the self-described penguins, many of them women, who start merely to finish.

Fastest marathon: 2 14 01 A real threat in this, only his second marathon.

The New Yorker, March 9, 1929 P. 11 We learn from a Westerner in town, a real, first-class dance marathon lasts from six weeks to two months.