How to Use run in a Sentence

run

1 of 2 verb

• The dog ran away from me.
• She ran to me for help.
• We ran for the train—but missed it.
• I heard her scream and ran to help.
• The dog ran toward me.
• How fast can you run?
• She ran up the stairs to get her jacket.
• He runs faster than anyone else on the team.
• When I called the dog, he came running.
• Don't expect me to come running every time you want something. I'm not your servant.
• So run, don’t walk, and be sure to add a pair to your cart.
  — Alexandra Domrongchai, Travel + Leisure, 12 Sep. 2023
• The whole lot of them would run to greet us, eager for the scraps and then for the feed.
  — Martha McPhee, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2023
• The girl rose and began running with the headphones on, but the cord jerked her back.
  — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2024
• The researchers showed that the ACE agent now seeks out the coin, rather than running right past it.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2023
• In the clip, the younger Willis runs her hands over her father’s head, touching his ears.
  — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2024
• Tonight’s show starts at 8 p.m. Eastern on ABC and runs for two hours.
  — Mike Rose, cleveland, 7 Aug. 2023
• What happens sometimes, if a film doesn’t do well, people run for the hills.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 15 Nov. 2023
• Rodgers heard the commands as well, then ran over beseeching Boykin to run into the end zone.
  — Journal Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2024
• The two are pulled apart, just long enough for the referee to run toward the baseline as a group of players give chase.
  — Brian Haenchen, The Indianapolis Star, 26 July 2023
• On a fourth and one from KC’s own 34, on the brink of elimination, Mahomes ran eight yards for a first down.
  — Sean Gregory, TIME, 12 Feb. 2024
• Tickets ran $10 for adults and the festival was free to children.
  — Lateshia Beachum, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2023
• December is running about 6% above the same month last year.
  — David Koenig, Fortune, 21 Dec. 2023
• The lip balm and hand lotion will run you $20 and $30, respectively.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 31 Jan. 2024
• The surroundings are matched by the decay of their owners, who have no idea how to run a business.
  — William Earl, Variety, 9 June 2023
• Once, at the University of Illinois, Evans and his brother had to run for blocks to dodge a wild pack of fans.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 12 Feb. 2024
• More than 4,100 people have been killed in Gaza, according to the Health Ministry run by Hamas.
  — Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2023
• And the Ramsay household is like running a restaurant where no one goes home.
  — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 7 Mar. 2024
• And the machine will run for 10 more years, producing 10 times as much data.
  — Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo, Quartz, 19 Mar. 2024
• The festival runs from Friday to Sunday throughout both weekends, and fans can expect the gates to officially open at 11 a.m. each day.
  — Andrea Navarro, Glamour, 12 Apr. 2024
• The vein is boxed into the space by two muscles: the anterior scalene, a neck muscle that runs from three upper vertebrae to the first rib, and the subclavius muscle that connects that first rib to the clavicle.
  — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 12 Apr. 2024

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run

2 of 2 noun

• She took the dogs out for a run.
• He goes for a six-mile run every evening.
• This is a team that scored 160 fewer runs than the Dodgers.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• At the plate, the lefty went 1-for-1 with two walks, two runs scored and one double.
  — Indystar Sports, The Indianapolis Star, 7 June 2023
• Bell stressed that if the Reds could keep the deficit at three runs, then the Reds would chip away and get the comeback win.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 28 May 2023
• When faced with a run like this — Estragon: All the dead voices.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2023
• A couple runs before the ninth The Tigers scored their first two runs in the fourth and fifth innings.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 26 July 2023
• Millan had two singles, scored twice and drove in a run.
  — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 May 2023
• Haile Kreger and Callie Jordan drove in two runs each in the inning.
  — Paul Boyd, arkansasonline.com, 12 Apr. 2024
• That was the case last year, when the Crimson Bears made a title run that surprised some.
  — Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 25 May 2023
• Sometimes stuff doesn't go our way, guys will score some runs against us.
  — Bob Holt, arkansasonline.com, 31 Mar. 2024
• Many marathon runners do a two- to three-mile shakeout run.
  — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 3 Nov. 2023
• Some people believed this was far too young for a 26.2-mile run.
  — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 4 May 2023
• That was really a big part of our run game, for us to be involved and know when to block and who to block.
  — Christopher Price, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2023
• Flynn was there with his mom to support Jones at the opening and closing night of the play's U.S. run.
  — Vandana Pawa, Peoplemag, 4 May 2023
• The milestone carry came on a 5-yard run by Andrew Miller with 1:36 left in the third quarter.
  — Erick Taylor, arkansasonline.com, 10 Dec. 2023
• Last month a ship delivered 200 tons of aid in a pilot run.
  — Wafaa Shurafa, TIME, 1 Apr. 2024
• Casting for the Broadway run has not yet been announced.
  — Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Sep. 2023
• Jose Abreu then mashed his third home run in the last two games, this one being a two-run dinger to put Houston up 3-1.
  — Ryan Morik, Fox News, 12 Oct. 2023
• The Bombers scored on the first possession of the game, a four-yard run from sophomore Jacob Britt that capped a nine-play, 77-yard drive.
  — Brendan Connelly, The Enquirer, 19 Aug. 2023
• Lyles pitched six innings and gave up three runs, but those did not come until later in the game.
  — Andrew Birkle, Detroit Free Press, 20 June 2023
• Daldry, who helmed the first episode of The Crown and has been an EP for the entire run of the series, directed the series finale.
  — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Nov. 2023
• The Reds scored six runs (four earned) against Rockies righty Connor Seabold in 4 1/3 innings.
  — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 16 May 2023
• The Aggies scored three runs after right-hander Cody Adcock loaded the bases with no outs in the third.
  — Matt Jones, Arkansas Online, 24 May 2023
• As it’s done with several series in the past year and change, the streamer will split The Crown’s last run into two parts.
  — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Oct. 2023
• Daniel also stroked a solo homer in the fifth and finished with four RBIs, scoring three runs.
  — Dennis Victory, al, 4 May 2023
• Kyle Barbera’s double brought in another run to make it 3-1 in the sixth.
  — Darren Sabedra, The Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2024
• In that sense, Kohl’s run of election blow-outs was partly a phenomenon of the times.
  — Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2024
• Runners start in Black Mountain, dash to the mountain's peak, and then run back in a grueling 40-mile run.
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 6 June 2023
• Then Phoenix when on its own 8-0 run thereafter, maintaining the lead for the entire quarter.
  — Dana Scott, The Arizona Republic, 8 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024