Sentence examples for playing marathon from inspiring English sources

At 69, Mr. McCartney is not saying goodbye but touring stadiums and playing marathon concerts.

If your parents (or just your father) have convinced themselves that you are playing marathon games of Candy Land at your boyfriend's place, let them persist in that defense mechanism.

IT'S that time of the year again: jam-band convergence, when New York City's rock halls fill with bands playing marathon sets, settling in on their way to New Year's Eve.

Perhaps because Anna and Morris had no children of their own, we were allowed to spend hours running up and down between the tables with our cousins, playing marathon games of hide and seek or tag, cadging sweets and sips of wine from the grownups (and silver dollars from Uncle Morris).

A New York Times review of the first concert reported that McCartney was "not saying goodbye but touring stadiums and playing marathon concerts".

Right outta the gate, Space was hosting DJs like Danny Tenaglia, Erick Morillo, Paul Van Dyk, many of them playing marathon sets.

MTV switched its programming to play Jackson's music videos, while radio stations across America began playing marathons of his hits.

With Pete Best on drums and Stuart Sutcliffe on bass, they played marathon gigs of several hours each, fortifying themselves with beer and amphetamines.

One of its early claims to fame was a stunningly played marathon: all six of Bartok's perilously difficult string quartets during a long evening at Alice Tully Hall in 1981.

That black-and-white picture is now an iconic symbol of the days when Lennon and his band - hopped up on Holsten beer and over-the-counter uppers called Preludin - played marathon shows, fraternized with strippers and, along the way, became the Beatles, forever enshrining Hamburg's improbable place in the rock cosmology.

There are table tennis balls all over the place — the girls play marathon games on a table that occupies the loft of a free-standing barn, and Mr. Aaron said he got so tired of replacing lost balls that he recently purchased one gross of them.