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This morning’s must reads How a Mojave Desert footrace became a showcase for L.A. County Sheriff’s Department turmoil.—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2025 Another standalone song is performed by a character only tangentially connected to Elmer: In 1928, to promote the completion of the cross-country Route 66, civic organizers sponsored a footrace that took runners from one coast to the other.—Greg Evans, Deadline, 27 Apr. 2025 On Saturday, Beijing hosted what’s being called the world’s first humanoid half-marathon—a footrace that pitted human runners against human-like robots.—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Apr. 2025 Michael Callahan failed to corral the puck at the offensive blue line, sending him stumbling into a neutral-zone footrace with Nesterenko.—Andrew Knoll, Oc Register, 27 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for footrace
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