Sentence examples for start of marathon from inspiring English sources

New faces and new characters created by playwrights famed and unfamiliar inspirit the start of Marathon 2003, the theater's 26th annual festival of new one-act plays.

At the start of the marathon, I set the timer to go off after four hours.

At the start of the marathon, 26 seconds of silence were held to honor the 26 victims, and the 26th mile marker was emblazoned with the Newtown seal.

I received my last pre-race phone call from d'Amboise on Friday afternoon, less than forty-eight hours before the start of the marathon.

But that is a short-term solution, a bit like hailing a taxi for half a mile at the start of a marathon.

According to the Hellenic National Meteorological Center, the temperature at the start of the marathon, at 6 p.m. local time, will be 79 degrees.

The Duchess of Cambridge has made her first public appearance since giving birth to Prince George today as she joined husband William at the start of a marathon event on Anglesey.

See articleA suicide-bomb attack at the start of a marathon race in Sri Lanka killed 14 people, including the highways minister and some of the country's star athletes.

The attack was the first major bombing since a suicide bomber killed 14 people, including a government minister and a former Olympian, at the start of a marathon on April 6.

Having released limited information before the event, besides the five-hour cut-off time, the organisers then left it until the night before to announce significant tweaks to the schedule – notably that the closing ceremony would commence four hours after the start of the marathon, meaning all the runners would need to complete the race within three and a half hours.

In April there was a particularly bloody attack when a suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber detonated a powerful device at the start of a marathon race in Waliweriaya, killing a dozen people including a government minister and a former Olympic athlete.