How to Use run across in a Sentence

run across

verb

• Some people run across to avoid getting hit.
  — James Taylor, CBS News, 25 Feb. 2026
• Manigault ran across the street and died later that night.
  — Charlotte Observer, 20 May 2026
• Edge shot as Manigault ran across the street and fell on a sidewalk.
  — Charlotte Observer, 20 May 2026
• That agent is then seen running across the street as numerous shots are fired.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 24 Jan. 2026
• Janet grabbed a roll of paper towels, ready to clean up the dirty drips that ran across her kitchen floor.
  — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 23 July 2026
• One ran across a busy road, was struck by an oncoming semitruck and was pronounced dead.
  — Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 14 July 2026
• The ad will run across a variety of media through the end of April.
  — Jamie L. Lareau, USA Today, 8 Feb. 2026
• The Royals had two runners aboard in the ninth, but couldn’t scratch a run across the plate.
  — Kansas City Star, 2 July 2026
• Adison Pierce pushed the final run across with a single.
  — Chris Hays, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 May 2026
• The stones run across the 47 mm white-gold case, the dial, the clasp, and even the movement.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 16 May 2026
• Hordes of people pushed past security, jumped rails and ran across the dirt floor.
  — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 23 Feb. 2026
• Its pitching has been just as good, allowing just 10 runs across its five games.
  — Sam Warren, Houston Chronicle, 13 Mar. 2026
• Videos show the agent in the gray jacket then running across the street as numerous shots can be heard.
  — CBS News, 24 Jan. 2026
• My cat was startled by a loud noise from outside and ran across the apartment with the needle in her mouth.
  — Dr. John De Jong, Boston Herald, 15 Feb. 2026
• Children ran across blacktop that could reach over 120 degrees on warm days.
  — Meg Tanaka, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2026
• Samus also runs across five allies, who provide help in the five biomes containing those keys.
  — Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2026
• The other briefly takes to the air, sending the team running across the mile-and-a-half-long beach in pursuit.
  — Michael Casey, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2026
• As French went back to make the play, his glove got lodged under the padding running across the top of the fence.
  — ABC News, 20 June 2026
• Purple extends from the sole well up through the upper, meeting black at the wavy line that runs across the profile.
  — Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 15 Jan. 2026
• Strahm has allowed three runs across five relief appearances this season.
  — Kansas City Star, 9 Apr. 2026
• That pattern now runs across Hollywood.
  — Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 24 Mar. 2026
• Only four players in the history of the league have scored more runs across a single season.
  — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 24 July 2026
• Valdano ran across and told him to stop in case the officials realized what had happened.
  — Michael Cox, New York Times, 3 June 2026
• The investigation said the child was running across the street toward the school when they were hit.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2026
• Witnesses told police the child was running across the parkway heading east when he was hit.
  — Julian Roberts-Grmela, New York Daily News, 5 Mar. 2026
• The nutritional profile of a bowl or cup of soup can run across the spectrum from healthy to fatty and caloric.
  — Perri Ormont Blumberg, FOXNews.com, 17 Jan. 2026
• Detectives are reviewing video footage and believe the teen was running across the street when she was struck.
  — Jade Jackson, IndyStar, 1 Mar. 2026
• In his last eight outings, Lange hasn’t allowed a run across 7 and 1/3 innings.
  — Kansas City Star, 6 June 2026
• Fiction is able to explore the seams of self-interest and conflict that run across men’s social worlds with a freer hand.
  — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 13 July 2026
• Fried allowed five hits, one walk and three runs across his three innings of work before Blackburn replaced him.
  — Chris Kirschner, New York Times, 13 May 2026