- past tense form of run.
ran
Example Sentences
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County officials said voters weren’t questioned and polling places ran normally despite the brief ICE presence nearby.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026
The page's mission statement says: "We exist to protect the integrity of the sport by ensuring that the times athletes share publicly reflect the times they actually ran."
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
BERLIN—August Hanning, the former head of Germany’s foreign spy service, once described the agency he ran as “the vegetarian of intelligence services” surrounded by more powerful, less rule-bound and carnivorous peers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Kaluuya embodies Jay, newly released from a psychiatric hospital because Misty ran out of money to pay the bill, all the way down to the marrow.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Built-in bookshelves ran along this false wall, old, sagging shelves whose blistered wood bore the same water stains as the wall behind them.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
