Sentence examples for marathon steps from inspiring English sources

When the marathon steps off Oct. 11 — with about 10,000 participants across several events and another 20,000 watching — it will be part of two pilot projects that showcase Hartford as one of the premiere "green" sporting events in the nation.

This is a fiendish work to dance, a marathon of virtuoso steps that scintillate against a darkly poetic atmosphere.

Amphetamines are used by far more than just baseball players to help keep up during marathon seasons ("Baseball Steps Up to Strike Down Use of Amphetamines," Nov. 18).

"I still love cross-country and the track and will continue to run them," she said, "but I feel the marathon is a step up in my career".

That wasn't lost on new inductee Bill Withers, whose induction by Stevie Wonder came late in the nearly six-hour marathon, when he stepped to the microphone and said, "One thing occurred to me tonight: This has got to be the largest AA meeting in the Western Hemisphere".

"And the spring marathons didn't step up.

We've done three steps of the marathon; it's nothing".

(Once you get past the stage of making friends, you can of course invite them over for a Leo marathon in sweatpants. Baby steps).

Taking part in a marathon means "taking a giant step in your running career," he adds, no pun intended.

"Copenhagen was only one step in a marathon in the search for global rules of the game," said Ferdinando Beccalli-Falco, chief executive of the GE International unit of General Electric.

She said those would follow as the award and related market became better known, likening this phase to the first step in a marathon.