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running down

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Consider the trashy, silky sweatpants sent down the runway by Jarrar, complete with thick stripes running down the legs.

Well, I got a 51-minute laugh, but the director of the play came running down the aisle and chased me through five Jewish resorts.

When asked why she thinks that, she replies she just caught a glimpse of someone running down the hallway with a gun.

The newspaper reported that she had a small red line of blood running down her neck.

“I could see the water just running down between the seats,” says drummer Charlie Watts in the film.

Water Street, formerly Water Lane, had a brook running down one side of it when houses were first built there.

On the high ridge running down to the lake the Bacólod fort was clearly seen flying the battle flags of defiance.

Then Winston turned suddenly, and running down the stairway shook the man awaiting him by the arm.

He came running down when he saw her, and it was patent that his rheumatism, for once, was forgotten.

She went into all the rooms, into his room, looking into the closets—everywhere—Then she came running down here.

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On this page you'll find 190 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to run down, such as: knock, belittle, criticize, decry, defame, and denigrate.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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