How to Use run its course in a Sentence

run its course

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  • Has the naked dress trend run its course?
    Madeline Hirsch, InStyle, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Enough time to be fond of it but also to let this idea run its course.
    Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 29 Nov. 2024
  • The radio rip on cassette had run its course.
    Marcus J. Moore, Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2025
  • By this time of the year, much of our spring garden effort has just about run its course.
    Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 19 July 2024
  • For Ian, the suburban white kid thing has run its course.
    Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The common cold is a virus that usually has to run its course.
    Carrie Madormo, Health, 28 Nov. 2025
  • The mystery box style of storytelling has run its course for many fans.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2024
  • The rebound from the pandemic has run its course.
    Brendan Coffey, Sportico.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The title track is a punchy kiss-off to a relationship that’s run its course.
    Lucas Villa, SPIN, 10 June 2024
  • Other times, brands will simply retire a product that has run its course.
    Lindy Segal, Glamour, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Political satire seems to have run its course, for the time being, at least.
    Richard E. Vatz, Baltimore Sun, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Succession, the last of the great antihero shows, has run its course.
    Constance Grady, Vox, 16 June 2024
  • And finally, Wingate points out that sometimes, a bed frame has run its course.
    Louryn Strampe, Wired News, 3 May 2025
  • After the initial attack, whooping cough will need to run its course, which can take months.
    Evan Forster, Parents, 17 June 2024
  • There are always signs a team has run its course, and the Sixers have pushed those aside for a long time.
    Jared Weiss, The Athletic, 13 Feb. 2025
  • The high-level takeaway is that this rotation may be starting to run its course.
    Zev Fima, CNBC, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The relationship between him and the Rangers just may have run its course.
    John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Asked about police abuses, Macron said justice should be allowed to run its course.
    Time, 29 June 2023
  • For instance, this could mean treating a seizure, a migraine, or in my son's case, letting the flu run its course.
    Lindsey Getz, Parents, 1 Nov. 2024
  • For instance, this could mean treating a seizure, a migraine, or in my son's case, letting the flu run its course.
    Lindsey Getz, Parents, 10 Jan. 2026
  • There’s a sense inside Israel that the war in Gaza has pretty much run its course.
    Foreign Affairs, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Mills agreed, saying that the relationship had simply run its course.
    Glamour, 23 Feb. 2024
  • If any or all of these seem like worthy grounds to end the friendship, then the friendship has probably run its course.
    Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The best way to manage pet tantrums, according to Netmeds, is to allow the episode to run its course.
    Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 June 2025
  • After a certain point, simply telling people to stay indoors and be careful will run its course.
    Jamil Wyne, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
  • It's been a fun rivalry, but gotta wonder if Bengals-Chiefs has run its course.
    Jason Williams, The Enquirer, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Even if the planning process reveals that a friendship has run its course, does the split have to be especially painful?
    Martine Thompson, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2024
  • And that Skylab had run its course but was now essentially abandoned.
    Jeff Spry, Space.com, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Leavell said the slowdown in cases emphasized the epidemic had run its course for the time being.
    Leo Bertucci, The Courier-Journal, 3 July 2025
  • Now, that fresh look looks to have run its course and the Lakers are popping up in trade rumors for another new look.
    Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2024

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