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Sprinter   /sprˈɪntər/   Listen
Sprinter

noun
1.
Someone who runs a short distance at top speed.






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"Sprinter" Quotes from Famous Books



... with the train. My plan is to run forward and get on the first blind. It is nip and tuck, for the train is gathering speed. Also, the shack is behind me and running after me. I guess I am the better sprinter, for I make the first blind. I stand on the steps and watch my pursuer. He is only about ten feet back and running hard; but now the train has approximated his own speed, and, relative to me, he is standing still. I encourage him, hold out my hand to him; but he explodes in a mighty ...
— The Road • Jack London

... meager relief. He felt vaguely that death must make a first choice of the men who were nearest; the initial morsels for the dragons would be then those who were following him. So he displayed the zeal of an insane sprinter in his purpose to keep them in the rear. There ...
— The Red Badge of Courage - An Episode of the American Civil War • Stephen Crane



Words linked to "Sprinter" :   runner, Lewis, Frederick Carleton Lewis, Carl Lewis, sprint



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