How to Use run for it in a Sentence

run for it

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• That’s when Moore made a run for it, the family claims, desperately knocking on neighbors’ doors to call for help.
  — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2021
• Sheeran released his eighth studio album, Play, in September and the promo run for it has been one of the most unusual, and creative, of the singer’s career.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 7 Oct. 2025
• At Herzog and de Meuron’s 56 Leonard, the upper stories appear to be making a run for it, each one shooting off in a different direction.
  — Curbed, 14 Dec. 2022
• In the sketch, a car shaped like a hot dog crashes into a store, and a man dressed as a hot dog does his best to distract a gathering crowd and deflect responsibility for the crash, before making a run for it when policemen try to apprehend him.
  — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 20 May 2022
• Advertisement Zac Steele, Troup County’s emergency management director, said the storm damaged the enclosures, allowing the tigers an opportunity to make a run for it.
  — Leo Sands, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2023