half-marathon
noun
a race on foot of 13 miles 352 yards (21.243 kilometres)
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Which of the options below is the best punctuation for the sentence? It__s your turn to pick the movie __ but your sister gets to pick the board game we _ re going to play.
Its your turn to pick the movie but your sister gets to pick the board game we’re going to play.
It’s your turn to pick the movie but your sister gets to pick the board game were going to play.
It’s your turn to pick the movie, but your sister gets to pick the board game we’re going to play.
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half-light, half-line, half-liter, half-long, half-mad, half-marathon, half-mast, half-mile, half-miler, half-minute, half-moon
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Example sentences from the Web for half-marathon
Benioff: I watched the first four and a half seasons of Breaking Bad in two intense, half-marathon bursts.
A bullet-headed bantam rooster of a man who just turned 50, Landrieu is training to run a half-marathon in October.