running after

Example Sentences

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Evolution may be less like climbing steadily toward perfection and more like running after a world that keeps moving.

From Science Daily • May 29, 2026

It and its leader Domingos Simoes Pereira, who only recently returned from exile, were disqualified from running after the Supreme Court ruled their legislative and presidential applications had been submitted after the deadline.

From Barron's • Nov. 23, 2025

Running only 76 minutes, the movie is a veristic and voluble delight, an exercise in eavesdropping on a pair of smart, funny people who wear posterity—there’s a tape recorder running, after all—with wry lightness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

One previous candidate dropped out of the running after a disastrous hearing before the council, and another would-be commissioner quietly withdrew from running earlier this year.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2025

“You'll be sorry if you keep running after me,” he said.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke