Examples of runaround in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web So began a bureaucratic runaround that might have made Kafka proud. — John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2021 Hoover said he was put through a runaround that left him with nothing. — Ron Hurtibise, sun-sentinel.com, 28 Feb. 2021 After days of giving her the runaround, the agency promised that a truckful of P.P.E. was on its way. — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2020 Again the runaround, the look of fear, fear for their own lives, in the faces of republican officials. — John Dos Passos, National Review, 28 Sep. 2020 And — surprise, surprise — most of the complaints about being hassled and given the runaround are coming from residents in Boulder, a growing island of Democrats in a deeply and devoutly Republican ocean. — Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Sep. 2020 Here’s how two experts suggest navigating this new financial reality — no runaround required. — Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 16 May 2020 As a result, many residents desperate to get themselves or their high-risk family members tested are getting the runaround. — Sarah Ravani, SFChronicle.com, 23 Mar. 2020 Jimmy Kennedy, a former NFL’er with a multimillion net worth, got the runaround trying to become a client of JPMorgan Chase’s private banking services. — Ellen Mcgirt, Fortune, 13 Dec. 2019

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