Sentence examples for play a marathon from inspiring English sources

The 10th-seeded Frazier forced Williams, the reigning Wimbledon champion, to play a marathon match before Williams slammed home the winning forehand.

In our case, it gave us an excuse to play a marathon game of Monopoly while lunching on enormous take-out submarine sandwiches from LaSpada's Original Hoagies, a Lauderdale-by-the-Sea mainstay since 1973.

I almost felt guilty agreeing with him considering I'm 25 years old and didn't just play a marathon performance of arguably the best rock music we have now.

Truth be told, the match was more like a Beckett play, a marathon of unreturnable serves, bereft of many complex exchanges but electrifying in its boredom, making instant folk heroes of both players.

Wilco is accounting its 20th year with a recent box set of rarities and last year played a marathon run of shows in Chicago where the band played every song in its catalog.

With Zubin Mehta conducting, Mr. Stern played a marathon program that included performances of double and triple concertos by Bach, Vivaldi and Mozart with Mr. Perlman and Mr. Zukerman, as well as the Brahms Violin Concerto.

Evgeny Kissin, the Russian pianist, lived up to that excitement at his Carnegie appearance on Thursday night, but mostly after the scheduled program — when he played a marathon 12 encores.

— BEN ROTHENBERG Grist for those who'd like a compelling final: Serena lost only 19 games coming into last year's US Open final & nearly lost to Azarenka — Christopher Clarey (@christophclarey) 8 Jun 13 While neither Williams nor Sharapova has played a marathon the likes of the one between Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic on Friday, there is a definite disparity in mileage accumulated thus far.

Auer first discovered Bob Ross in 2015, after Twitch played a marathon for the late painter's birthday.

And this weekend he is scheduled to play a "12-hour marathon" set; the city's most dedicated revelers will try to keep up.

You might also know that this Saturday, the UKG legend's playing a massive, marathon set to raise charity for Cancer Research UK.