ran
Example Sentences
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The workers ran downstairs and sprinted across a yard for the shelter.
He was senior operations manager for the the UK's Marine Pollution Control Unit and one of the first people to step on board the Sea Empress after it ran aground.
From BBC
Within five years, Operation Breakthrough, the ambitious, but ultimately costly, delay-ridden and politically unpopular federal initiative that had propped up the Kalamazoo factory and eight others like it across the country, ran out of money.
From Los Angeles Times
Wall Street’s expectations for the results themselves ran higher in the process.
From MarketWatch
Vicki Broadbent, a children's author who also blogs about parenting, is a big believer in the importance of restaurants as her family ran one when she was growing up.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
