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How to use the word Sprint in a Sentence?

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The conservation of nature isn't a sprint but a timeless relay; each generation passing the baton of responsibility. It's our turn—let's do it devotedly and diligently.

Aloo Denish Obiero

added by Aloo-Denish
3 months ago

When we crossed the hatch, we went into a real sprint -- 14 hour days, basically from 7AM until 8 or 9 at night for the first five or six days, and then it backed off a little bit to 12 hour days, it was rigorous and challenging.

Larry Connor

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re just going to keep working for as long as we can with the money that we have and keep doing as much good as we possibly can, it’s a marathon, not a sprint, and whatever is happening here is going to be happening for a long time and people are going to need a lot of things.

Maya Grossman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

To prepare for the relay, it was normal even if it was difficult for Johannes Thingnes to be in Johannes Thingnes hotel room, i think Johannes Thingnes also loaded Johannes Thingnes batteries quite well. We saw today that maybe it was for the better that Johannes Thingnes was in quarantine so that Johannes Thingnes could relax and save Johannes Thingnes energy for the sprint.

Johannes Thingnes

Found on CNN
2 years ago

That was a race, it’s been a sprint for the past couple of months.

Brent Venables

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's hard not to press, but you realize it's a marathon, not a sprint.

Brandt Snedeker

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's a sprint -- we have to do that because if we tell someone that they can't start for another week or two, a lot of bad things can happen.

Scott Bonneau

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I mean, it's brutal. No one wants to see these Covid patients this late. But we're masking up and trying to help people get better, that said, there's probably no hospital in the state that isn't dealing with staffing shortages. It's difficult, especially as we look to a fourth surge that could last through the winter. This surge is shaping up more to be a marathon than a sprint.

Nick Gilpin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The first time Chris Nikic ever did a sprint with Special Olympics Florida, Chris Nikic came in dead last, but you know what ? Chris was happy.

Trish Nikic

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Some don’t like to see this (vaccination rollout) as a race but a race it surely is. What I didn’t know was that [NSW] Premier [Gladys] Berejiklian’s in a sprint while the rest of us are supposed to do some sort of egg and spoon thing.

Daniel Andrews

added by km_rennie
2 years ago

What many once hoped would be a sprint has become a marathon of a pandemic with the finish line a mirage, the risk of a policy misstep and a premature end to this business cycle is rising.

Diane Swonk

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

We all know that we’re still in this. Game one is out of the way and it’s a marathon, not a sprint.

Hollie Pearne-Webb

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Monetary policy will need to remain highly accommodative for quite some time because achieving our monetary policy goals is likely to be a journey and not a sprint.

Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

It’s not a 100 meter sprint, we at Fiocruz are prepared for a marathon.

Marco Krieger

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I was exactly where I wanted to be, i was feeling good, but if I look back on that sprint I should have gone a bit earlier and tried to surprise The Lotto-Soudal rider.

Caleb Ewan

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The pursuit of equality is a marathon not a sprint, and this lawsuit has generated a meaningful conversation about the treatment of women in sports, one ruling does not diminish its impact.

Billie Jean King

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

It was insane, we were hoping for the world record but to do it by 0.6 is mad in a sprint event. We are favorites now for Tokyo but all the countries are going quicker and making big steps.

Harrie Lavreysen

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Although sales volumes in the first three weeks of January were okay, there was no 'sales sprint' at the end of the month. So it is inevitable that we will see a significant sales drop.

Cui Dongshu

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Sprint simply needs to pull up its sleeves and compete.

Glenn Pomerantz

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We are doing everything we can here -- at this sprint to the finish line -- to get as many students up to date as possible, we don't want anybody missing out on any educational time.

Tim Robinson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Sprint's just jammed between all of these forces with no right to win.

Jonathan Chaplin

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Sprint used the comical tagline : We're almost as good for less money, and almost as good is, for obvious reasons, not a terribly compelling value proposition.

Craig Moffett

Found on CNN
4 years ago

That's what it will take to win next sprint and then to beat Donald Trump in the fall, i'm prepared to do that, I'm building a campaign to do that, and I'm the only one in this race who has proven I can do that.

Cory BookerBooker

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Toward the end I felt like I could kick forwards, I still had enough energy to sprint and it's amazing, i am so happy. It's my second major marathon and to come only a few months after Boston is brilliant.

Lawrence Cherono

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

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