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noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Even with recent improvements, the air could keep sprinters and long-distance runners wheezing through their events. ▪ I learned more about coaching sprinters by reading this book than I have in the past 30 years in the sport. ...
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The Sprinter is a family of diesel multiple unit trains in use on the British railway system . They were built in the 1980s and early 1990s by BREL , Metro Cammell and Leyland . Most have a Cummins engine with Voith hydraulic transmission, although 47 class ...
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n. one who sprints
Usage examples of sprinter.
He turns out to breed better stayers than sprinters, and the world is mad nowadays for very fast two-year-olds.
Muck flying from his boots as he ran, Skorzeny covered the couple of hundred meters out to the panzer in time an Olympic sprinter might have envied.
Gavin broke from his grovelling position like a sprinter from his block, but the slops greased his heels, and threw him off balance.
For all their speed, lions were only sprinters, while their prey were long-distance runners.
He turns out to breed better stayers than sprinters, and the world is mad nowadays for very fast two-year-olds.
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They launched themselves, like sprinters off the blocks, and the open ground seemed to stretch ahead of Craig to the ends of the earth.
When a Haitian sprinter won a bronze medal, Jake Featherston looked as if he'd swallowed a big swig of lemon juice.
It played heavily upon Shasa Courtney's part in defending his Jewish friend, the bronze medalist sprinter, and when they finally got back to Cape Town, Shasa found himself a minor celebrity.
On the cinder track the sprinters were practicing starts or limbering up.
Her natural shy nature is the antithesis of the extroverted showbiz mode into which many American sprinters click after any victory.
He's named after that fine Namibian sprinter, Frankie Fredericks, Barcelona silver medallist in the 100m and 200m, and gold medallist over 200m at the worlds in Stuttgart in 1993.
Toowoomba-born Arthur Postle was a professional sprinter who set world records for the 50 yards (5.
Like the rest of the team, he was like a sprinter in the starting blocks, poised to go, but having to wait for the gun to fire.
He rocked on one foot like he was about to bolt, but kept stopping himself, like a sprinter straining against the starting blocks.