How to Use telethon in a Sentence

telethon

noun
  • Now in its 25th year, the telethon is built on hope.
    — Jessica Riley, CBS News, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Despite having the look and feel of a telethon, the show was a hit.
    — Nathan Whitlock, The New York Review of Books, 3 Nov. 2020
  • Here’s the details about the telethon, where to watch and what to expect.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 3 Dec. 2020
  • Some of the most notable names in sports will participate in the telethon.
    — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Aug. 2019
  • The telethon concluded a six-week campaign to help children in need.
    — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 26 May 2017
  • Due to social distancing, most of the telethon will be pre-recorded.
    — Elizabeth Montgomery, The Arizona Republic, 22 Aug. 2020
  • Robin Hood's site will say open after this telethon is over because this battle is far from over.
    — Ashley Boucher, PEOPLE.com, 12 May 2020
  • Details will be coming soon on the exact date of the virtual telethon.
    — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 14 Apr. 2020
  • But helping our friends in Texas, and now Florida, can’t end with an hour-long telethon.
    — Southern Living, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Their telethon was livelier and better-produced than the Democrats’.
    — Willie Brown, SFChronicle.com, 29 Aug. 2020
  • In the scene, Mikayla calls Hannah while sitting at a telethon and makes fun of her new single.
    — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Most of the commenters favor a telethon approach for the awards shows, with the celebrities ponying up a few of their goodies.
    — Lynette Rice, Deadline, 21 Jan. 2025
  • This event is taking the telethon format and giving it a 21st-century twist.
    — Tiney Ricciardi, The Know, 14 Apr. 2020
  • The year before, the Leonards had held a telethon to save the team from folding in Indianapolis.
    — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, USA TODAY, 22 June 2022
  • The 2026 telethon is sponsored by Toyota and the Malvern School.
    — Cbs News Philadelphia Staff, CBS News, 3 June 2026
  • The telethon debuted last year as a way to help artists struggling because of the pandemic, and Nelson was part of it then, too.
    — Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 12 May 2021
  • Sadeghi worked with Paltrow on the Stand Up 2 Cancer telethon and became a mentor.
    — Marisa Meltzer, Town & Country, 23 Apr. 2018
  • After his low-effort performance, anchored by a gimmick that made the show feel like a telethon, viewers might be asking themselves the same thing.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Among them is 6-year-old River Schafer of Kittanning, one of our two junior co-hosts for this year's telethon.
    — Corey Martin, CBS News, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Among them is 11-year-old Porter Harmon, of Ingomar, one of our two junior co-hosts for this year's telethon.
    — Kristine Sorensen, CBS News, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Trying to overcome those concerns, Newsom and liberal influencers held a three hour long telethon, doubling down on their messaging.
    — Douglas Schoen, Oc Register, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The Mad Ones’ devised theater work, about a group of high school teachers in the late 1980s meeting to plan a fund-raiser, ends its telethon.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
  • The Emmy-winning host ended last season with a telethon auctioning off weird memorabilia from previous episodes of the show.
    — Peter White, Deadline, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The Rolling Jubilee launched via a livestreamed telethon in 2012, on the one-year anniversary of Zuccotti’s eviction.
    — Ryann Liebenthal, The New Republic, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Over the course of 19 previous telethons, the CBS Philadelphia Telethon has raised more than $70 million.
    — Cbs News Philadelphia Staff, CBS News, 3 June 2026
  • And every year since 1954, KDKA-TV has helped raise money for the Free Care Fund with our annual holiday telethon.
    — Chilekasi Adele, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2025
  • And every year since 1954, KDKA-TV has helped raise money for the Free Care Fund with our annual holiday telethon.
    — Kristine Sorensen, CBS News, 15 Dec. 2025
  • The lights are on and the studio is buzzing at Plum High School, where students are spending Monday and Tuesday hosting a 12-hour telethon to raise money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
    — Jessica Riley, CBS News, 22 Dec. 2025
  • As the whole business dragged on, the atmosphere started to seem less like a game show and more like the late-night Jerry Lewis telethons of the 1970s, in which a tired but pumped Lewis alternately griped at the audience, broke into maudlin emotion, or jumped up to welcome a new guest.
    — Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The telethon will also feature performances from Nashville PBS including Kathy Mattea, Sierra Hull, Molly Tuttle and Ketch Secor.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025

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