How to Use run against in a Sentence

run against

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• Your provider's incentive runs against yours, and that is a business model rather than bad faith.
  — Sanjay Srivastava, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
• Certainly, candidates have run against namesakes before, and have faced cries of foul play.
  — Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
• The move runs against the grain as productions have relocated to other states and countries.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 6 July 2026
• The two-term governor of Maine, Janet Mills, ran against him in the primary.
  — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 14 July 2026
• Third-year big Malevy Leons also got some run against Mara, and scored nine points and grabbed 11 rebounds.
  — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 12 July 2026
• Lucifer, with money, could run against Mother Teresa and prevail.
  — Gary Franks, Hartford Courant, 6 July 2026
• Tyler Phillips worked 3 1/3 innings, allowing seven hits and five runs against two strikeouts.
  — ABC News, 4 July 2026
• This runs against the usual story, in which doubt is simply the opposite of arrogance and therefore always the safer setting.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
• Harvey is a comedian and satirist who, as Count Binface, has run against three prime ministers in the past decade.
  — Fatima Al-Kassab, NPR, 10 July 2026
• The Republican is running against her record as Atlanta’s mayor.
  — Greg Bluestein, AJC.com, 29 July 2026
• Michael Busch drove in three runs against his former team, helping the Cubs improve to 2-2 on a seven-game homestand.
  — Jay Cohen, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2026
• The Angels trailed 4-2 in the fifth, when the Marlins scored six runs against Shaun Anderson.
  — Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 9 Aug. 2026
• Ortiz, who has unsuccessfully run against Pacheco for this seat in previous elections, is also a father of eight.
  — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 7 July 2026
• The film will be among the 20 titles competing at the festival, running against other major motion pictures.
  — Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 23 July 2026
• The next year, after Blatter was ousted amid a corruption scandal, Ali ran against Infantino.
  — Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
• In 2015 meanwhile, a man in a large red Elmo costume ran against then-head-of-government David Cameron.
  — Mark Rice-Oxley, Christian Science Monitor, 7 Aug. 2026
• The winner of the Democratic primary will run against Baker in the November election to serve a two-year term.
  — Dejanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 4 Aug. 2026
• Paxton ran against Rochelle Garza, a Democratic civil rights lawyer from Brownsville, in the general election.
  — Thomas Beaumont, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2026
• On a night with smoke in the air from Canadian wildfires, New York led on an unearned run against Roki Sasaki in the fourth.
  — ABC News, 17 July 2026
• This year’s second-quarter rally therefore ran against the broader historical pattern, but that doesn’t mean the seasonal risks have disappeared.
  — Andrew Graham, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
• David Costello, 66 Costello ran against Platner in the primary and lost earlier this year.
  — Nick Penzenstadler, USA Today, 7 July 2026
• That leaves the prospect of Farage running against single-issue or joke candidates such as Count Binface, a comedian with a trash can on his head.
  — ABC News, 8 July 2026
• While Michigan is expected to be a close race, Republicans were a lot more eager to run against El-Sayed than Stevens.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 5 Aug. 2026
• When Nadezhdin tried to run against Putin in 2024, long lines of supporters waited to back his candidacy with their signatures.
  — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC news, 17 July 2026
• But the Cardinals surged with two outs in the fifth, rallying for three runs against Warren to deal the Yankees a 3-1 defeat and a series loss.
  — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 6 Aug. 2026
• In Collins, Jackson is running against one of the most senior Republican incumbents in the Senate.
  — Elena Moore, NPR, 25 July 2026
• An offense that ranks second in OPS since July 7 managed to score five runs against Chris Sale and the Braves’ bullpen.
  — Dennis Lin, New York Times, 23 July 2026
• Justus is running against incumbent Jerry Nolte and Jay Swearingen for the Clay County seat.
  — Nathan Pilling july 22, Kansas City Star, 22 July 2026
• Glyman’s hiring philosophy runs against the standard corporate playbook of a litany of credentials, crazy connections, and elite college degrees.
  — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 14 July 2026
• The winner of that primary, El-Sayed, will run against Republican Mike Rogers, who is unopposed.
  — Dejanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 4 Aug. 2026