run across

verb

ran across; run across; running across; runs across

transitive verb

: to meet with or discover by chance

Examples of run across in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The menu runs across Central and South America alongside Indigenous foods like tamales and atole, and staff taste all of it before they're hired. — Stephanie Gravalese, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026

Pat Boisvert has lived on the American side for all of his 86 years, and remembers as a kid running across Canusa Street to visit friends ‒ a street that he's now supposed to get permission to cross. — Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 29 July 2026

His grandfather ran across great white sharks; his father, orcas; Hubbard himself has crossed paths with pilot whales, a right whale and one of the largest leatherback turtles he's ever seen. — Amber Harding Outkick, FOXNews.com, 28 July 2026

As dancers ran across the stage carrying kites and flags of all the countries in the Americas, confetti fell from cannons onto the crowd. — Jessi Roti, Rolling Stone, 25 July 2026

Rhymes for run across

• albatross
• applesauce
• barabbas
• helios
• kshatriyas
• menelaus
• backcross
• crisscross
• lacrosse
• recross
• tomas
• blas