How to Use ultramarathon in a Sentence

ultramarathon

noun
  • Earlier that week, one of them had run a desert ultramarathon on acid.
    — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Videos about jogging led to videos about running ultramarathons.
    — Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 27 Dec. 2018
  • Morgan competes in ultramarathons--races longer than a marathon.
    — Anna Beahm | [email protected], al, 29 Sep. 2019
  • The woman who keeps beating men in ultramarathons runs on mashed potatoes.
    — Greg Rosenstein, NBC news, 18 May 2026
  • Now a new study that followed ultramarathon runners for up to a year suggests an answer.
    — Jason Dinh, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The news stunned China and the wider ultramarathon trail-running world.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2021
  • To read their books is to explore our failings and trot a few miles of their ultramarathon of remorse alongside them.
    — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2021
  • In addition to his work as a performer, he is known for running marathons and ultramarathons.
    — Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Apr. 2025
  • But the man who broke the color barrier at the world’s largest ultramarathon almost didn’t live to see that.
    — Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Oct. 2022
  • In short, fueling during an ultramarathon often takes place on a knife’s edge.
    — Patrick Wilson, Outside Online, 15 June 2020
  • There are still challenges on the horizon and ultramarathons to be added to Becker’s bucket list.
    — Emmett Hall, sun-sentinel.com, 10 Oct. 2019
  • The first is that nearly all ultras take place on trails, hence nearly all long runs in ultramarathon training should also take place on trails.
    — Matt Fitzgerald, Outside Online, 7 Dec. 2020
  • Tristan is the ultramarathon of opera roles, long and punishing, and not many tenors carry it off with such unflagging grace.
    — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2026
  • For others, there are the ultramarathons, races that stretch to fifty or one hundred miles or more through some of the world's most inhospitable regions.
    — George Pendle, Esquire, 26 July 2017
  • Her resume includes eleven marathons and seven ultramarathons, with five podium finishes in the last two years.
    — Alex Wong, GQ, 1 May 2018
  • The first woman completed one of the world’s hardest ultramarathons.
    — Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Think about a suffer-fest like the Leadville Trail 100 ultramarathon.
    — Jeremy Andrus, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
  • The author, an accomplished ultramarathon runner, puts the reader right with him along an endurance race.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 6 Dec. 2021
  • For some, an ultramarathon can be close to a religious experience.
    — Brad Stulberg, Outside, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The day after that first ultramarathon, Karma decided to test her soreness by jogging an easy two miles.
    — Christopher McDougall and Eric Orton, Outside Online, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Satisfy wanted to build an ultra-durable pair of shorts that could withstand ultramarathons through desert brambles and snags or forests dense with deadfall.
    — Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Yet an increasing number of endurance athletes are taking on these longer ultramarathons.
    — Brad Stulberg, Outside, 26 Mar. 2026
  • All of this could also explain why the performance gap between men and women in ultramarathons is often smaller.
    — Claire Maldarelli, Scientific American, 2 July 2026
  • Among the dead was Liang Jing, 31, an ultramarathon champion and three-time winner of the race.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 23 May 2021
  • The ultramarathon is home to the gutsy eccentric; the marathon is home to the Type-A obsessive.
    — New York Times, 11 Feb. 2020
  • And the ultramarathon got so big that organizers added a 100 mile mountain bike race, which became a big deal in its own right.
    — Alan Gionet, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Kristen was also an ultramarathon runner and someone who found joy and purpose in caring for animals.
    — Jesse Sarles, CBS News, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Pumphrey is a Baltimore artist, sometime teacher at the school and an open-water ultramarathon swimmer.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Even when Internet trolls commented on her body in cycling pants — the body that gave birth to two children and completes ultramarathons.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 18 July 2019
  • Current members’ goals run the gamut from getting on the podium at an ultramarathon to simply extending the pleasure of hiking.
    — Elisabeth Kwak-Hefferan, Outside Online, 9 May 2025

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