runaround

Example Sentences

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“They just give you the runaround — how am I going to join the plan when I don’t know what it will cover?”

From New York Times

“I tried contacting our military and the FBI — and just got the runaround — to try to enlighten them on what a lot of these things probably are. And they’re going to look not too intelligent to be shooting them down,” Ron Meadows, the founder of Scientific Balloon Solutions, a Silicon Valley, California, company that makes purpose-built pico balloons for hobbyists, educators and scientists, told Aviation Week.

From Washington Times

A runaround that will be reversed as we in the press keep flogging away at chastened politicos.

From Seattle Times

Until that point, sales growth had been driven largely by subsidy-dependent companies that sold tiny runaround cars, but authorities cut off funding for many lightweight vehicles at the same time it allowed the California-based carmaker to set up a wholly foreign-owned entity, the first of its kind.

From Washington Post

Anger is an understandable response when you get the runaround.

From Seattle Times