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Sentence example with the word 'marathon'
marathon
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Definition
n.
any long and arduous undertaking
Last update: July 1, 2015
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To run a
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He won a
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Look at me—two months ago I ran a half-
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and now I'm smoking!
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This time they sailed straight across the AEgean Sea and landed near the village of Marathon.
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The Persians were defeated, as they had been at Marathon, and this time they left for good.
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They say in Greece "Lewes, the peasant, won the race from Marathon, but Constantine the prince, won the race from Larissa."
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Then followed two invasions of Greece itself by the Persians under the generals of Darius, and their defeat at Marathon by Miltiades.
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Yes, he fought on the Marathon day: So, when Persia was dust, all cried "To Akropolis."
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