RUN in a Sentence

Learn RUN from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
420 example sentences for RUN, such as:
1. Let her run wild in the garden.
2. Do not run too fast after gain.
3. Dogs that run after many hares kill none.
4. The south side of town is pretty run down.
5. Now run along, and don't get into mischief.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of RUN
run
 n.  unrestricted freedom to use
 n.  the act of testing something
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  She could run faster, and longer, and she could skip up to a hundred.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
2  They've run wild," he said, "but th strongest ones has fair thrived on it.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
3  Let her run wild in the garden.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
4  Mary had run round into the wood with Dickon to see Jump.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
5  Mary slipped out to run and bring back a watering-can.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
6  No one is to know anything about it until I have grown so strong that I can walk and run like any other boy.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
7  Oh, anybody can run a tick down that don't belong to them.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
8  He would run away from home and enter upon it.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
9  Before the next day three other servants were dead and others had run away in terror.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
10  I'd 'most be glad you'd run off and acted so bad.'
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
11  WELL, three or four months run along, and it was well into the winter now.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV.
12  He kept me with him all the time, and I never got a chance to run off.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI.
13  He drank and drank, and tumbled down on his blankets by and by; but luck didn't run my way.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI.
14  By and by she come along, and she drifted in so close that they could a run out a plank and walked ashore.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII.
15  So I took my gun and slipped off towards where I had run across that camp fire, stopping every minute or two to listen.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII.
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Level of education is actually quite a poor indicator of ability to run a business well.
2  If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.
3  Do not run too fast after gain.
4  Dogs that run after many hares kill none.
5  If you run after two heares, you will catch neither.
6  The agency is voluntary and not run for profit.
7  A politician is a man who undertands government, and it takes a poiltician to run a government.
8  The curtain hooks run along a slot in the curtain rail.
9  Now run along, and don't get into mischief.
10  The Health clinic is relying on volunteers to run the office and answer the telephones.
11  Fifteen-year-old Danny is on the run from a local authority home.
12  The system has the ability to run more than one program at the same time.
13  The south side of town is pretty run down.
14  The old lady run three circuits of the track every morning.
15  The next year he didn't run track or play football.