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    Use "run" in a sentence

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    1. It was far from the same thing, and where did that leave Leand in her parentage? Did she have three parents, but didn't the child who became the ghost also have two? Could he ever make love to such a creature? He had made love to such a creature, made love to her so much that she ran from him


    2. Jorma had no translation for the curses in Portuguese that Herndon bellowed as he ran across the dock and dived into the boat's cabin


    3. He ran and grabbed for the horn hanging off the wall of the guard station and blew


    4. Another child, maybe five years old in red coveralls, ran up to his mother’s legs


    5. ” He giggled and ran off while the mother read a magazine


    6. Violet ran out to the entrance ahead of her mother


    7. “Now!” Scar barked as a trickle of blood ran down his neck


    8. He ran over and quickly opened his closet, revealing piles of clothes heaped on top of each other in the middle of the floor


    9. Not that it mattered, Scar never ran from anything, ever


    10. “When they ran out of corpses to catapult over the walls, records say that an old bearded man took two axes to the wall and attempted to scale it in the dead of night

    11. "What if they ran it unshielded?" she asked with worry nowhere near as evident in her voice as it was in her mind


    12. "I'd have had a loud alarm if it ran for even a millisecond unshielded unless most of the planet was between us


    13. Tiny Robot Archimedes calculated that his presence in the harbor with an eye patch ran numbers similar to a man who had a corgi puppy in a brothel


    14. and Jen hurled themselves off the bed and ran to the opposite corners of the room,


    15. 10 and ran across to her


    16. They ran batteries of tests, plugging me into scanners and polygraphs and the


    17. "So you ran away from someone here in the city?"


    18. ‘But that was okay, there were quite a few kids of my age in the village and we just ran wild


    19. exposed wood shaving floor of her tin cell yard, feeling as though she ran under the


    20. His yard boy, who was friendly with Estwig, though half a decade younger, ran a few blocks after them, then snatched off and waved his shorts as they rumbled out of sight

    21. Theo Petrakis was at the Sunnyvale crime scene when two burly figures ran up and boxed him in on either side


    22. He ran his tongue


    23. He ran his fingers through damp hair


    24. Once Aunt Billie was out of the room, Johnny slowly ran his hands over his


    25. The Countess ran her free hand along the contours of her body, tracing the


    26. Thinking that there might be someone in the house, he ran straight to the door and kicked it in


    27. Every time I ran my fingers through my hair I would be left


    28. In old movies you would have people in hissing space suits fumbling with obsolete access codes and overcoming the dead batteries in the security system as the air supply in their suits ran low


    29. a special stretcher just jumped out of that stretcher and ran, completely


    30. highly intoxicated, I ran into my pastor

    31. She almost ran to her bosses office


    32. He ran away


    33. village he ran away with the last of his money to the city


    34. A tall young security guard ran his hand-held detector over him and then reached asked Joshua to raise his arms when the device began to whine


    35. He pulled over immediately and ran over to her car just as flames started coming from the back of the vehicle


    36. "No, there's another thing you should know," she said, splashing thru the toes of the surf where it ran up the sand


    37. The water swirled around his ankles and ran back into the sea


    38. On his left side a great tear ran along the seam underneath his arm


    39. No matter how tired I was though, the play of image, anger, self pity and bleak determination ran unremittingly through the hours


    40. "Love is my greatest desire," she whispered and ran the palm of her hand up the bottom of his chin

    41. Having finished work this afternoon, I was walking along Academy Avenue to the bus terminus, when I suddenly saw Persephone and her mother just a few metres away, waving at me happily! They looked thrilled to see me, they ran towards me at once and I could do nothing to avoid them


    42. The selfish child in me ran riot


    43. Another pat on my shoulder, firmer this time, and my blood ran cold


    44. It ran down her neck and chest


    45. An unremitting river of sweat ran into my eyes


    46. I developed insane urges to itch and scratch, my skin burning and inflamed My nose ran in the closely confined heat, dribbling mucous across the tape over my mouth and onto my newly shaven chin


    47. He knew it was possible for a technician as astute as the one who ran the simulated female side to ID him from his access to that area


    48. My thoughts ran riot, one after another, disjointed, becoming a twisted nightmare sequence of unrelated rants


    49. One thing about the identity of this tech that he was sure of at this point, he was the same one who ran the female side


    50. Around the third night of my captivity in the apartment, late into the small hours, I heard a faint tapping coming from the pipe that connected the radiator in my room to the circuit of pipes that ran through the apartment














































    1. "Let me run up and see what's taking her so long


    2. “They run that bar


    3. the decision to write a character out, it will usual y be because of the fact that the actor wishes to depart or because the part has run its full course


    4. · To realize that in the long run good and bad things are bound to cancel out each other


    5. The shower had not been run recently, since before Ava and Herndon came down was his guess


    6. He could either stay and get overrun or he could run and try to make a break for it


    7. You are just innocent bystanders that Ava happened to run into along the way


    8. Many years ago when tests were run on the toxicity of DE, it was found to be beneficial to the animals fed with it as they gained weight and seemed healthier then those not fed DE


    9. Psalms: 119:32: I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart


    10. If you use the Underground Exterminator ( see more information on this product at end of chapter) then you simply place one end of your garden hose into the tunnel and hook up the other end to your cars exhaust system and run the car for about 1/2 hr

    11. It can run circles around other computers, it can steal passwords, break encryptions, discover hidden security backups


    12. Also, because much stress is now psychological or emotional, there's nothing obvious to run away from or fight and so the stress hormones build up in the body with damaging effects


    13. Run thru a grinder if you can


    14. It was settled that they would park it by rope and would not run the motor


    15. "How long can that thing run at forty five knots?"


    16. She felt Tdeshi's hormones prompting her to blow off comfortable old Kulai and run off on an adventure with a dashing manly man, but Ava's sense of duty was going to force Herndon to pay for this junket with his fast boat


    17. "There's finally radar available, now that they can cast silicon here, but I had to rig up a lantern over the solar panel to run it in the dark


    18. A farmer purchases an old, run down, abandoned farm with plans to turn it into a thriving enterprise


    19. Run through blender till liquefied


    20. The latrine boy had run for cover, if there was such a thing anymore

    21. His feet wanted to run


    22. The timer had run out and he hadn’t put his initials on the screen


    23. "Yeah, but she shouldn't run at the pony like that


    24. Zinc is normally readily available in the soil but when the flow minerals needed by the soil and plant is interrupted, the zinc will be used up by the plants and quickly run are depleted


    25. He reached over and grabbed a glass of water, drinking it all down in one large gulp and letting half of it spill out and run down his shirt


    26. When dried it will leave a thin film for the cockroaches to run into


    27. If you were strong, you would be watching the blood run from my body instead


    28. ‘Liz, we may have to run the gauntlet of the press or TV outside the police station


    29. There was barely enough light to run it, but the plains were devoid of signal anyway


    30. Even with considerable research the managers of Mutual Funds are not always able to take correct decisions about entering or exiting a particular script as the share price movements usually defy all logics at least in the short run

    31. “Listen” may sound self-explanatory, but it’s a well-known fact that adolescents will run wild using “no one understands me” as an excuse


    32. Run through shredder for best results


    33. So who was left to send starships? The Chinese space program fell apart after losing so many sleeperships on the Centorin run


    34. "Exactly, it would actually run without it, but saturate the surrounding area with neutrons


    35. His time had run out, Ackers knew that


    36. ’ I heard myself suggest, as I lean forward and run my hand slowly up his thigh towards his crotch


    37. Herndon thinks I should stay here, so he's not going to run me back up to the Kassikan in his missile


    38. She had run off with the guy who looked more like what her old culture called 'manly' hadn't she? Against her better judgement, every step of the way


    39. could they go? David was so tired and so run down and so exhausted of life that he


    40. doostEr worried that the city fathers had convinced the local news outlets to only say that he had run into the wilds so people would stop worrying

    41. - the run up to Christmas


    42. "I can run and tell Bellme while they finish breakfast," he said about the kedas while he jumped up and started for the gate


    43. He shovels some instant coffee and sugar into the cups, turns on the tap and lets the water run until it’s


    44. As they got toward the front Taktor and his whole crew came out to run alongside and see them off


    45. solid wooden stock fence, and a straight run up to the house lined on the right with


    46. who run the stills are


    47. parked up and run his experienced eye over the place he felt more than a little


    48. The limo explodes as John and Teekra run hand-in-hand to Russ and Ahmed by the date tree


    49. to have run in at our facility


    50. This wasn't a politician looking for votes or a local kid collecting for a sponsored run














































    1. " He jumped up and got into action, running up the path to the house


    2. She ducked quickly out the door, her running footsteps danced down the path in haste, she was agile and in good condition


    3. · Regular, active exercise such as swimming and running, raises our heart rate and may greatly reduce hardening and blockage of the arteries, a condition known as arteriosclerosis that is a major cause of heart disease and stroke


    4. When you have an intuition you are making a decision and you are running through your mind the different scenarios that may occur based on your


    5. Another cloud crossed her mind, Yorthop's years in the central city were running short, she feared that might be the reason for this invitation


    6. “I turn it on first thing in the morning, and then it’s up and running just before lunch time


    7. By the time she got to the door she was sure it was Herndon by his voice and found herself running into his arms


    8. After that, mermaids became a running joke around the house


    9. He wrestled with the man to get free, knocking him down and running


    10. With his free hand, Vald swatted and twisted apart the men running and crawling from the wreckage

    11. Jorma had not napped beside her, instead Jorma was running down the path toward them screaming, that Venna had disappeared


    12. Herndon cursed something unintelligible in Portuguese and went running up the dock headlong


    13. When she’s running late, Violet sometimes sees Evan and looks at him strangely before she dashes across the street to the studio


    14. Johnny and Nancy kept running, trying to put more distance between themselves and the United Order, doing everything they could to keep the Chip safe


    15. After running down several blocks, they came to a stop and tried to catch their breath


    16. Rain water harvesting, cleaning of small tanks before rainy season, closing of running taps, not allowing drawing of water directly from mains through electric motor, recycling water for WCs etc are some of the areas where we can generate awareness and guide others to act


    17. You had to keep three bags going at all times when running full out like Herndon wanted


    18. How serious? Consider this scenario: one of your students starts running around the classroom with his pants on his head, yelling profanities about the education system


    19. She was using all her control to keep herself from running in panic as it was, without some contact with real land, she wouldn't have been able to maintain her control now


    20. She heard the sound of booted feet running over carpet

    21. The Inspector thought it best to make certain before he started that particular hare running


    22. "We're just running around chasing four tons of missing aluminum," Ava answered almost absently


    23. understand, he was running down the


    24. ’ She said, running down and handing me my coffee


    25. A trooper sits behind the wheel in each car with the windows rolled up and air conditioners running


    26. The truck's angle is linked by fiber cables running along the top of the backbone so both trucks turn the same amount in opposite directions


    27. In running his fingers along her seams, in tracing the


    28. Anyone running a lab certainly wouldn't want to call attention to themselves


    29. I can still hear the shower running as I go upstairs


    30. ‘Do you want me to organise something to eat?’ I suggested, my imagination running riot on the subject of this idea of his

    31. This is the fastest car on the running track


    32. 2) The children are running about


    33. Estwig had stopped running, if it was a meteor it would have landed long ago


    34. Estwig came running back to them


    35. the bars of their cages and mice running in all directions amid vine leaves


    36. This was like running one in 30 seconds


    37. "We still have an instrumentation package running," Glenelle said, "I could have been working with that


    38. They were running in Ceres with a backup in Vesta, but we lost touch before there was a ten year round trip in our communications


    39. The soldiers who stopped them are running for their lives, throwing away their weapons as they flee


    40. He sees Ricci running among the soldiers, his eyes filled with terror

    41. Khalid gives him a running count as he types


    42. Despite his well paid position and generous expense account his taste or quality and preference for excellence meant that he was always running just behind his ability to pay


    43. The ship was built when the first human simulates were running in China


    44. He could barely see through the streams of water running across


    45. ‘The future … that Lisle man is out of the running, I assume


    46. All Glenelle really wanted to do right now was get a backup of Morg running again, she was SO sick of making do with a cherub, even one who looked exactly like Morg


    47. She was confident that once he was actually running, he would be just as quick as she was to refuse to go back out


    48. He stands with me on one side of the bridge and we look down at the water running under the bridge below us


    49. Even that far below a dirty old burner like that, she was likely to pick up some damage to her flesh, unless they were still running on fans and thrusters when they passed over


    50. They were red but there was a dark bloody spot in the crotch, right between the legs and running down an inch or so on her left thigh














































    1. A moose runs across the road right in front of us


    2. Tobias runs a hand through his hair


    3. The gopher or mole sees its reflection and runs away - plus, they can’t dig through the bottles


    4. runs in the eighth inning to


    5. He holds services in the local pubs and is chaplain to both the local college and the steam railway which runs nearby


    6. This unified field of energy, that runs through all things


    7. They are largely the dangers of a fine mental concept that runs ahead of the capacity of the physical body


    8. ’ He said, pondering the question as he runs a comb absentmindedly through his hair


    9. He runs his fingers down her arm, then her thigh, pulls her closer to him, inspects her hair, kisses it


    10. She walks slowly past him, runs her hand over his

    11. ‘D’you fancy a coffee or something, Molly?’ Liz asked as she runs a duster over the now empty bookshelves


    12. He spies Khalid lying on his back in some scrubby bushes near the flaming wreckage, runs to him


    13. Ahmed runs to him, falls on his shoulder, weeping


    14. Ali ben Ali, who was in the next room, runs in with a cellphone against his ear, speaking loudly in Arabic


    15. Awad runs to the window, dumps out his drink


    16. "It's the size of your pecker, not the strata your mind runs on that makes a man tardy around you," the bartender chided back


    17. doubt, the point where the prey loses its fear of those mesmerising eyes and runs for


    18. Her sister runs a hotel down in Minehead … she’s married to a mad potter


    19. They fall back, the hero runs away


    20. It seems like ages before I can decently change the subject but, after an eternity, she runs down on the subject of Andy and his transgressions

    21. My life is balanced on the tip of a pin and she just runs the box past her scanner as though it was a bag of onions … it is almost funny


    22. He jumps up and runs to the front to see that the helpful lady at the desk has been replaced with a young, attractive woman with brown skin and long black hair


    23. Jesus goes to that place where the moneychangers are collecting money and banning Gentiles and says, “My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations, but you have made it a den of thieves!” This same mentality runs deep within all of mankind


    24. This was the instant of doubt, the point where the prey loses its fear of those mesmerising eyes and runs for dear sanctuary, but in that instant when Lucy felt that she might regain control of her legs and speed back towards the light of town, the wolf slid the hood from his head


    25. ‘The estate more or less runs itself


    26. also great for balancing one’s health given the kind of eating Most runs have their watering stations at every 5-km mark


    27. Most folks I Lewa Marathon, one of the better sponsored runs went know like running because they get to socialise


    28. with coffee as thick as the sap that runs from under


    29. "I'll be drinking to the day my captain told off a starship captain til the last keg runs dry," was what someone said later that night, "And I'll never give a shit if anyone ever believes it


    30. a child runs across the liquid sand

    31. time an issue when the engine runs without rest


    32. The man who runs the chippy leans against the door jam,


    33. laying the trail that runs


    34. by a life that hits without warning, runs,


    35. ‘There’s the question of who will runs the house for him … I can’t just leave Father to cope on his own


    36. ‘He’s a couple of years older than me … tall and stocky; he runs a business on the other side of the town


    37. The fleeting thought that I wish it were me waiting for my man to come back runs through the back of my mind, closely followed by the memory of my dream at that wayhouse


    38. He collects up his belongings and, with a cheerful wave, runs off across the sands towards the village


    39. where the blood of boys runs into the veins


    40. I’d a vague memory of lots of rocky hills … almost mountains … but it was pointed out to me by a somewhat tetchy Berndt that I had doubtless travelled to the Naveta from the other end of the island along the spine of hills which runs along the centre of the island

    41. The stream runs down to the sea


    42. the dust that runs out of your nose


    43. ‘Did you sleep okay?’ I asked as he quickly washes his face and runs a comb through his hair


    44. and so the heat rises, the blood runs


    45. "marVan actually runs the ship," Ityay added


    46. on the road that runs along the coast behind us


    47. the blood of boys runs into the veins of the land


    48. he cuts the frayed cord and runs free


    49. Berndt runs across to where Sefir is standing, a jar of something in his hand


    50. We can not escape what runs through our path, but everyone is responsible to carry on walking through individual notion and effort













































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    Synonyms for "run"

    run tally running running game running play test trial discharge outpouring ladder ravel foot race footrace campaign political campaign streak rill rivulet runnel streamlet unravel melt melt down go move race hunt hunt down track down draw guide pass function operate work play carry ply consort bleed course feed flow break away bunk escape fly the coop head for the hills hightail it lam run away scarper scat take to the woods turn tail black market execute die hard endure persist prevail run for extend lead be given incline lean tend range series set motion progress extent passage period interval spell stream brook channel burn standard average ordinary regular track route field way crowd bevy flock gaggle herd pack covey hurry hasten rush dash flee speed scurry pour flood proceed leak climb trail creep

    "run" definitions

    a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely


    the act of testing something


    a race run on foot


    an unbroken series of events


    (American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team


    a regular trip


    the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace


    the continuous period of time during which something (a machine or a factory) operates or continues in operation


    unrestricted freedom to use


    the production achieved during a continuous period of operation (of a machine or factory etc.)


    a small stream


    a race between candidates for elective office


    a row of unravelled stitches


    the pouring forth of a fluid


    an unbroken chronological sequence


    a short trip


    move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time


    flee; take to one's heels; cut and run


    stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point


    direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.


    have a particular form


    move along, of liquids


    perform as expected when applied


    change or be different within limits


    run, stand, or compete for an office or a position


    cause to emit recorded audio or video


    move about freely and without restraint, or act as if running around in an uncontrolled way


    have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined


    be operating, running or functioning


    change from one state to another


    cause to perform


    be affected by; be subjected to


    continue to exist


    occur persistently


    carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine


    include as the content; broadcast or publicize


    carry out


    pass over, across, or through


    cause something to pass or lead somewhere


    make without a miss


    deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor


    cause an animal to move fast


    be diffused


    sail before the wind


    cover by running; run a certain distance


    extend or continue for a certain period of time


    set animals loose to graze


    keep company


    run with the ball; in such sports as football


    travel rapidly, by any (unspecified) means


    travel a route regularly


    pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)


    compete in a race


    progress by being changed


    reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating


    come unraveled or undone as if by snagging


    become undone