Explore Telethon through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Telethon meaning
A televised fundraising event encouraging viewers to make donations via telephone.
Using Telethon
- The main meaning on this page is: A televised fundraising event encouraging viewers to make donations via telephone.
- In the example corpus, telethon often appears in combinations such as: the telethon, telethon will, telethon on.
Context around Telethon
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 11 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Telethon
- In this selection, "telethon" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, day, attending, hearts, tradition, tonight and avenue stand out and add context to how "telethon" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include after the telethon will be and collaboration with telethon in an. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "telethon" sits close to words such as abdulrazaq, adan and adolphus, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with telethon
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Catch Jamie in town for Telethon next weekend. (8 words)
It was almost like working a telethon,” Chief Ent said. (10 words)
But it was Telethon’s famous Lip Sync battles that had everyone talking. (13 words)
The famed filmmaker and co-founder of the charity, which returns for its annual Red Nose Day telethon tonight on BBC One, has worked with Hugh Grant plenty of times in the past, and he has recalled the actor’s intense snog with Dawn French back in 1995. (48 words)
Nashville tornado telethon raises $1.5MNashville is still reeling from the deadly tornadoes that plowed through the area on March 3. Parts of the city will take months to rebuild, but thanks to stars like Garth Brooks and Taylor Swift, they'll have help. (44 words)
And those who need a moment to relax, the Lotterywest Chillout Zone at the corner of Wellington Street and Telethon Avenue will play host to face-painting, cuddly animals, inflatables, and free popcorn. (33 words)
It’s a Telethon tradition — but who would be first to copy a pie in the face this year? (19 words)
Example sentences (20)
DMD is the awful disease made famous by actor and comedian Jerry Lewis on his Muscular Dystrophy Association Labor Day Telethon, which he hosted for decades.
It’s a Telethon tradition — but who would be first to copy a pie in the face this year?
The famed filmmaker and co-founder of the charity, which returns for its annual Red Nose Day telethon tonight on BBC One, has worked with Hugh Grant plenty of times in the past, and he has recalled the actor’s intense snog with Dawn French back in 1995.
The week after the telethon will be dedicated to the distribution of food hampers in various parts of the KZN.
This was stated by the spokesman of the State Security Service of Ukraine Andriy Demchenko on the air of the telethon.
A few days later, the orchestra will renew its collaboration with Telethon in an extraordinary Latin jazz fundraising concert on June 13 in Nicosia.
And those who need a moment to relax, the Lotterywest Chillout Zone at the corner of Wellington Street and Telethon Avenue will play host to face-painting, cuddly animals, inflatables, and free popcorn.
But it was Telethon’s famous Lip Sync battles that had everyone talking.
Catch Jamie in town for Telethon next weekend.
For more than 25 years, Maria has led Channel 2’s Muscular Dystrophy Association Labor Day telethon, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars every year for MDA for Alaska.
For Samantha Wardell it was her first year attending Telethon as a mother, bringing her two children Sophia and Tate with her to carry on the family tradition.
Red Nose Day is a telethon held annually by Comic Relief in March.
Clifton Murray with the Tenors tells Neetu Garcha about their upcoming performance at the Variety Show of Hearts Telethon on Global BC and what the band is working on these days.
For Wellard father Michael Curranagasawa, tuning into the Telethon Kids Institute’s Bright Tomorrows app with his three-year-old son Auriel is “like walking on to the set of Sesame Street”.
From noon to 1 PM every day this week the is holding a telethon.
It was almost like working a telethon,” Chief Ent said.
Nashville tornado telethon raises $1.5MNashville is still reeling from the deadly tornadoes that plowed through the area on March 3. Parts of the city will take months to rebuild, but thanks to stars like Garth Brooks and Taylor Swift, they'll have help.
Once a Labor Day weekend tradition, the telethon is coming back in October to raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association and its new host’s Help From the Hart charity.
The Mondays Dark livestream telethon is using the $122,000 raised Monday night to link Vegas entertainment professionals with The Actors Fund.
The Moonshiners are shown during the Mondays Dark Live Stream Telethon on Monday, April 27, 2020.
Common combinations with telethon
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the telethon 10×
- telethon will 4×
- telethon on 4×
- day telethon 3×
- telethon in 2×
- for telethon 2×
- telethon kids 2×
- telethon is 2×
- telethon for 2×