How To Use Runner In A Sentence

I think the next frontrunner is Mayor Ciciline of Providence now Patrick Kennedy (D, RI) cutting and running. | RedState
Mrs King is being supported by her husband Simon, a police inspector with Wiltshire Constabulary, who is also a seasoned runner.
Challenge trophies and prize monies are to be awarded to the winners, runners-up and other outstanding performers.
There was a runner on first with two out in the seventh.
On a more encouraging note, the Democratic front-runner is out-earning her. Think Progress » Bachmann Accuses The Media Of ‘Treason,’ Claims Use Of ‘Deem And Pass’ Warrants ‘Impeachment’

Formerly called Stanleyville, it was once known across Africa as a vibrant meeting spot for diamond runners, gold miners and foreign businessmen. ANC Daily News Briefing
Clonal progeny may be produced by stolons, runners, rhizomes, tubers, buds on bulbs, corms and roots, layering of stems, and agamospermous seed.
With the new points system, which has reduced the number of points for winners and runners-up, it pays to be consistent.
Marathon runners will take to Sukhumvit Highway southbound towards Sattahip before returning to the finish line.
The ground was luxuriant with colocynth, whose runners and fruits looked festive in the early light.
His team pulled the sled deep into the night, Jason shouting orders left and right while he stood on the runners at the back of the sled.
Muleteers provide aid stations stocked with Peruvian cheese sandwiches, coca tea, and other energy foods along every trail; camps await runners at the end of each day.
The wife of a fellow runner works in the same place as him, and has related, with tears of laughter in her eyes, accounts of his exit from his car in the morning.
There was the hiss of pressurization, then the clang of a hammer against metal Brunner's signal that they were ready. CORMORANT
A Swindon doctor and marathon runner looks set to finish the ultimate endurance test in the Sahara Desert.
They were crammed with what we term indirect workers—workers on their way to relieve a fellow employee, machine repairers en route to troubleshoot a problem, housekeepers, inventory runners. The Machine That Changed the World
One of the league's best blocking fullbacks and an improving runner, Christian missed the final two games in 1998 and all of the playoffs after tearing the ACL and MCL in the same knee.
With its repair ship, colliers, and hospital ships, it was a forerunner of the Task Force concept used four decades later in another war against Japan.
Coming out of the final bend, the runner stepped up a gear to overtake the rest of the pack.
The runners have noticeably quickened their pace.
Worcester had begun well and headed in to a 4-lead before two goals in the final seconds gave the scoreline some respectability from the point of view of the runners-up.
It was the forerunner to the sos call which in turn was superseded, in the days of voice radio, by the now standard Mayday call. LET NOT THE DEEP
Five runners-up will receive a beauty treatment and complimentary makeover.
The former world champion imparted a few words of wisdom to the young runners.
Some, called runners, spread exuberantly, and others are classified as clumpers, which slowly expands from the original planting.
He was extremely fit and is reputed to have been one of the fastest runners in the village and also regularly won local cycle races.
Other trainers may have more fancied runners but I can sit back and enjoy it. The Sun
The middle runner is the 5-1 ante-post leader and should show too much opening zip for her rivals. The Sun
However young, he had to be given the courtesies due a dragonrider, so over klah and some of Lady Gana's excellent wine cake, he told us that runnerbeasts also were dying of the plague, and needed to be inoculated. Artichoke
The monkeyrunner tool is not related to the UI/Application Exerciser Monkey, also known as the monkey tool.
One runner was selected to pace the race.
I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler. Socrates
Start by selecting a style of trainer (runners, slip-ons, casuals, boots).
The lively forums also mean you can talk directly to other runners and specialists in the field. The Sun
All three of the democratic frontrunners were only separated by a whisker's bredth. Top Edwards Adviser Joe Trippi: Hillary And Obama Are "Banging Down The Doors" For Our Endorsement
Hill work makes athletes strong and strength is what a good cross-country runner needs.
Ignoring the pain, he sprinted toward the gate like a runner at the end of a marathon.
Next day, confidence shot, four less fancied runners all won. Times, Sunday Times
The toboggan consists of a wide wicker basket with a cushioned seat, set on wooden runners.
A soccer player and runner in high school, he had taken up outrigger canoeing before the accident.
He carded a four-round total of 280, with Bob Charles - who finished two shots off the pace - having to settle this time round for the runner-up position.
Tougher sentences will force gun-runners to face the consequences of armed attacks Times, Sunday Times
Indeed, one has to wonder for a community that has spawned scores of spelling bee champions and science finalists, but has painfully few athletes, runners and players.
The work to which the judge said he would return concerned the removal of a roller shutter and the runners to either side of it at the front of the shop.
The next 32 runners-up were each given an oven-ready duck to take home for dinner.
As the runner blasted out of the blocks in the 400 metres last week, it looked like she might make qualification.
The runners accelerated smoothly around the bend.
Another mode of making a springe, which is a capital plan for catching almost any bird, whether it be a percher or a runner, is this: Procure an elastic wand (hazel or osier makes the best) of about 3 ft. 6 in. long, to the top of which tie a piece of twisted horsehair about 3 in. in length; to the free end attach a little piece of wood of 2 in. in length, by the middle, cutting one end to an obtuse point, flattened on the top and underneath. Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling a
The Sesame is designed so that molders can use a smaller runner and sprue, which gives them more control over the amount of plastic and pressure used to form the part itself.
However, they had no phone lines between their main bases and had to rely on runners to keep in contact with each other.
Later the same year, a pair of runners refused to submit to random drug tests.
For me I use nokia sports tracker and my N95 8gb with its GPS for location, speed etc, but a garmin forerunner for heart rate. Five Best Exercise Planning And Tracking Tools | Lifehacker Australia
The Super Bowl runner-up Pittsburgh Steelers were crushed by divisional rivals the Baltimore Ravens in their opening game with quarterback Ben Roethlisberger having a shaky start with three interceptions and two fumbles. Pressure already on teams off to surprisingly slow starts
For competitive marathon runners, this route is nevertheless considered a hard one.
The runner up came from a long way back and should be seen to better advantage over an extended trip.
Generally, the tropical bamboos tend to be clumpers and the temperate bamboos tend to be runners.
He can sacrifice, forcing the first or third baseman to field the ball and make a play away from the lead runner.
At sea the crusaders maintained a naval blockade, breached by daring blockade-runners or professional swimmers who delivered messages to the besieged garrison. Times, Sunday Times
His enquiring mind made itself obvious very early on, when he put together the forerunner to AM stereo radio in a crystal set at home, when he was only 11 years old.
This front-runner is one of the best two-mile chasers around and will take some catching. The Sun
No one by 1989 could doubt the Prime Minister's stamina as, politically, a long-distance runner.
Like its forerunner, the reverse tope is liable to be any depth or width; it depends on the whim of the spade wielders, or perhaps how deeply they had descended towards the bottom of a tequila bottle. Free riding the roads of Mexico
He is wiry, bearded, a life-long mountaineer, skier and runner and one of Scotland's leading endurance riders.
Javier Oliva-Madrid carried about $18,000 in rumpled small bills into a Tysons Corner car dealership to help pay for a Toyota 4Runner. Probe reveals inner workings of ring shipping drugs from Mexico to D.C. area
The Afghan middle-distance runner nonetheless trekked on and was on the verge of realizing her Olympic dream.
A poor runner could run it in 25 minutes, while a decent walker could walk it in 50 minutes.
Before you go from 5K runner to marathoner lickety-split, you'll have to address the second tenet of neuromuscular training: teaching your mind to push through pain, because - we won't lie to you - there's a lot of it.
My wife was a middle-distance runner; she is hugely supportive and knows the dedication it takes. Times, Sunday Times
I'm late sowing runner beans, fennel and mangels (for Smokey and the pigs) but all will go in tomorrow.
Many runners were suffering from heat exhaustion .
Information they gathered was sent back to platoon headquarters by runner and radioed from the village to Company headquarters.
It gave his face a lean, rather surprisingly attractive ascetic look—the look of long-distance runners, saints, martyrs, and fanatics, the kind of elongated, soulful face that El Greco painted so hauntingly. Twilight
There was a suspicion that this runner attempted to avoid the procedures for dope testing.
Many eyed Fred hopefully; for the word had gone around that upon him Riverport must depend to wrest victory from the grasp of that tall runner, Boggs, who was said to be a tremendous "stayer," and as speedy almost as Colon himself. Fred Fenton on the Track or, The Athletes of Riverport School
Bush is apparently "well qualified" considering the state he left the US in after an unpaid for Iraq-war-4-oil and a collapsed economy!!!! kudos to GW Bush for ruining the USA!!! rumrunner Bush on Obama: 'This guy has no clue'
He raced with that runner for a prize.
One of the most intriguing aspects of the race was the fact that Excel Bolt came alone along the stands side rail, indicating that runners who decide to go down the nearside at this meeting may not be disadvantaged. Talking Horses special: Royal Ascot, day three, live!
We've been experimenting with yellow wax beans, purple dwarf beans, purple tee pee, golden tee pee and our best stringless runner beans, white lady.
No pinch hitters, runners, or relievers were used.
She is one of the front-runners in the contest.
THOUSANDS of runners may have clocked invalid times because dozens of courses are short, it was feared yesterday. The Sun
One of their season's outstanding performances came against the league runners-up at the Avenue back in December.
They were carpeted with a faded red and blue runner held in place with brass stair rods and rings.
Two years ago, Ganjam bagged the runners-up award at the International Gold Virtuosi 2000.
A batter becomes a runner when the third strike called by the umpire is not caught, providing (1) first base is unoccupied, or (2) first base is occupied with two out. USATODAY.com - Pierzynski's heads-up play keeps Sox alive
By his own admission, Rough is one of football's midnight runners.
The idea that there's some set of soft options where we can make the fiscal corrections in a painless way is not a runner. Times, Sunday Times
Put plastic runners on both sides of the trench to avoid damage to your lawn, one runner for the sod and the other runner for the dirt.
The shrouds and back-stays are first cast off, and the mast-head got as far forward as nearly to touch the fore-part of the partners, by the runners and tackles or burtons of the mizenmast.
The two front-runners have been tarnished already by bad publicity. Times, Sunday Times
The Love of Food team were awarded a runners-up prize of £1,000-worth of mentoring support.
When Gore was the Democratic front-runner for the presidential election, his satellite drew a sharply mixed reaction.
Another top European runner always insists on an opt-out clause if the race day temperature is above 30 degrees.
Under English rule the great object of the police is to take the "amok" runner alive, and have him tried like an ordinary criminal for murder; and if he can be brought to bay, as he sometimes is, they succeed in pinning him to the wall by means of such a stout two-pronged fork as I saw kept for the purpose in Malacca. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
Following a hard workout, one runner was flooded with images of breaking capillaries.
Recall the dull front-runner, unloved but unavoidable, who plods ahead to victory in his place.
Chef Gutenbrunner's goulash tasted a little tough, and some of his appetizers (the smoked-trout-and-eel salad, for example) veered off, as Mr. Austria put it, ‘into nouvelle froufrou land.’
In war, there is no second prize for the runner-up.
Less and less are we seeing these gleaming muscular models that step into the blocks looking more like bodybuilders than runners, particularly the women!
The runners broke into a sprint a few hundred yards from the finish.
Only the "scroop" of the runners and jingle of the sleigh-bells seemed to be hammered into the brain, for all eternity. From Paris to New York by Land
She got badly spiked when one of the runners trod on her heel.
The runner claims it was a horrific accident. The Sun
His speed earned him the tag of 'the runner'.
Admittedly they're not very big strawberries, but they taste nice, and the proper strawberry plants only ever seem to grow runners.
The Festival is not all-consuming but if you only have one fancied runner there is no margin for error. The Sun
In 2005, in typical Roadrunner fashion, the label devised a brilliantly inventive way to celebrate its milestone 25th anniversary. Roadrunner Records Latest News
American neo-orthodoxy in the 1940s and 1950s typically meant a compound of Brunner's dogmatics, Niebuhr's theological ethics, and the scripture scholarship of the biblical theology movement.
Robert Kennedy front runner in the Democratic nomination when he was assassinated.
The Duchess of Cambridge was among the runners and riders for the "British Style" award, a publicly-voted prize designed to recognise the It-est It-girl of the year. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
I m still a new runner--and I use the word runner loosely, since I still can t run up all the hills around my house. Maria Rodale: 10 Secrets for Happy Winter Running
Winner: Kay Hall. Runner-up: Chris Platts.
The 21-year-old runner twisted his ankle in a training session last Friday.
It was generally a parody or skit on more serious opera, a forerunner of the satirical revue.
The term "muchacho" is slang for drug runner, according to the affidavit. SplicedFeed
In contrast to the cluttered runner up pages, the winning designs are presented alone.
he clocked the runners
However, while our government has been promoting the firearms amnesty in the UK, it has also been considering legislation that could allow British gunrunners to flood the streets of other countries with these destructive weapons.
The scoreboard informed her that the two runners that Trent had left on base had scored.
This deepens the sweat glands, allowing runners to reabsorb more salt. Times, Sunday Times
Nonetheless, in the vote by nearly 400 party lawmakers set for Monday, Mr. Kaieda, 62 years old, is seen as the front-runner.
If that sounds selfish then that is the lot of the long-distance runner. Times, Sunday Times
Moneyrunner: Comity takes another pratfall at the Kirkland household with this compelling argumentArthur then makes the case for partisan posturing rather than principle. The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Recalls of U.S. Senators Are Unconstitutional
Luka hitters had eight hits and many chances to score over the course of the game, but were unable to do so, due to some key miscues with runners in scoring position.
During the early part of the 17th century, Japan's shogunate suspected that the traders and missionaries were actually forerunners of a military conquest by European powers.
Among the reptiles are isolated populations of four species: toad-headed agama Phrynocephalus versocolor, multicellated racerunner Eremias multiocellata, Gobi racerunner Eremias przewalskii and patterned grass-snake Elapha dione; also the locally rare adder Vipera berus, moccasin snake Aghistrodon halys, Tlafe agilis and sand lizard Lacerta agilis. Uvs Nuur Basin, Russian Federation, Republic of Tuva and Mongolia
I was relieved that showrunner Craig Silverstein trusted in the intelligence of the viewers and didn't attempt to hand-hold them through the story after the first few minutes.
Cut loose like a deuce, another runner in the night az writed an ringinlee rekorded by teh boss, Mr. Springsteen awn teh Greetings From Asbury Park album. Wen U brite az meh, - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
The faster runner set the pace.
He was himself a talented runner in his day, but "a bit of a fantasist" according to a national coach who remembers him.
the runners emerged from the trees into his clear vision
Ovett managed to outpace every other runner.
In war, there is no second prize for the runner-up.
The Army bought some for issue to the 1st Special Service Force, forerunners of today's Green Berets.
With runners on second and third, Showalter summoned lefty Brian Shouse from the bullpen and let him pitch.
Andy Pettitte going to second base for a force-out in the sixth inning of Game 6 when he could have forced out the lead runner at third. USATODAY.com - Marlins-Yankees Series all about atmosphere
Vehicles coming in the gates are checked for bombs, and white U.N. vehicles, mostly Toyota 4Runners, are parked helter-skelter around a dirt lot.
Now, this is very clever technology, and I can see where long distance runners, hikers, or even wait staff would have a need for a shoe that provides the ultimate in comfort in every step.
A masked runner-up is a trainee nursery teacher. The Sun
Among the items recovered are gold coins, medical equipment, clothing and footwear, and a shawm, a medieval forerunner to the oboe and one of the oldest such musical instruments in the world.
Slices of meat the size of individual portions, they were in their way forerunners of hamburgers, served up to busy city dwellers in the London chophouses that proliferated from the 1690s onwards.
Earlier forerunners rely entirely on intransitive or quasi-transitive verbs, with the object preceded by a preposition.
The entire team starts training in September, while the distance runners compete in cross-country.
Matt and I are the fastest runners in this program.
Before the runner sets off, he is put in an enclosed space with the hounds that then track his scent.
Long distance runners need great endurance.
Brunner, the illusionist, had dazzled his audience with an elaborate shell game. CORMORANT
Five minutes into Double Agent – the Eddie Chapman Story BBC2 our bespectacled presenter Ben McIntyre has leapt from the cargo door of a Nazi plane, blown open a locked safe and done a runner in the London underground clutching a sackful of stolen banknotes. TV review: Double Agent - the Eddie Chapman Story; Imagine … Alan Ayckbourn - Greetings From Scarborough
She showed great promise as a runner.
Nine runners-up will each win the boxset. The Sun
Monifeth Man finishes seventh in the Coral Cup, better than any other Irish trained runner.
CBS They call sprinter Oscar Pistorius the "Blade Runner," for the j-shaped prostheses he wears. Breaking News: CBS News
The French runner is coming up fast on the inside.
Well, I agree with the thesis of what Terry's saying, that we can't keep on bloodying each other up, going until March or April and not have a nominee when it is appearing that we have one strong frontrunner emerging.
In accepting the trophy the Ilkley Captain praised the efforts of his team and the runners-up.
Kieren Fallon, Sir Michael's number-one jockey, takes the mount on both runners.
You're taught, in fact, to call a rulebook strike zone and that the runner has to beat the ball to the bag in order to be called safe. Undefined
They couldn't have thought that they could succeed in tiring out a runner like him! Further Adventures of Nils
An overall winner and a runner-up were chosen.
He will be part of a five-man team aiming to finish the race, running alongside more than 4,500 runners.
Yes, when runner beans are in season. The Sun
Fell-runners who are out to win can cover the three miles in just over 15 minutes.
Having an angle always helps get you noticed and the early frontrunners in both shows satisfy that requirement. The Sun
The bestselling Urban Runner takes inspiration from the classic Converse All Star "lo-top" trainer, with a piece of inner tubing for the toecap and organic cotton-covered footbeds.
I rang many times until one of them gave me a job as a runner on a feature film.
At 18 she is only just beginning as a middle-distance runner. Times, Sunday Times
Kenya's long distance runners have taken the athletics world by storm.
I says to Goldsworth, I knew this trade when you was a snot-nosed runner, I says, and I know more than you'll ever know, I says. WHISTLER IN THE DARK
Most warm-season grasses develop thatch, a spongelike layer of roots, runners, and grass blades just above the soil surface.
There is a line in "Lord of War", where one gun-runner asks another about why he supplied both sides of a conflict. OpEdNews - Diary: Kim II Sung and Rev. Moon: Buying the Holy Land?
BEIJING (Reuters) - Ethiopia's Olympic champion distance runner Kenenisa Bekele has left his actress wife at home to avoid any distractions as he seeks double gold in Beijing.
Runners rarely need pure rest on their days off, just a break from the jarring effects of running.
I would describe myself more as a jogger than as a runner.
African runners swept the medals in the distance events.
He found the strength and determination to beat 99 of the world's top runners in the The Atacama Crossing ultramarathon, a grueling seven-day and six-night race covering 270 km.
They didn't even have a clear front-runner in the primaries, let alone someone who would threaten him in the general election. TIES THAT BIND
But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning.
By modern standards, he isn't a particularly fast runner.
A kindly Fagin who harbors a nest of adolescent thieves as runners for his goods.
By the time I got back up the hill he had three saplings—the two hardhack runners plus a straight young ash, destined to be our tongue—felled and limbed. The Dirty Life
This helicopter is one kind of single belt stroke-oar single shot stands rises machine, uses 2 piece of paddle blades, the tubular runner type landing gear design.
The runners on second and third held their base for the purpose of tagging up and advancing.
a swift runner
The gun runner has a foot in both camps;he sells arms to both the Arabs and the Israelis.
That's why marathon runners look scrawny but sprinters are built like tanks. The Sun
In fact, there is a whole world of go-to brands for this new breed of runner. Times, Sunday Times
Southwestern Cable is providing free access to its high-speed Roadrunner Internet service in 14 public libraries within its service area.
He went on to explain that adept runners like horses, dogs, and rabbits keep their noggins remarkably steady as they lope, thanks to an obscure bit of anatomy called the nuchal ligament. Doggdot.us
I believe this freedom is compromised in many instances by the dichotomy of the child-womanthe blurred sexuality of the young female runner evolving into womanhood, secure at first in the perfect form of her childness in flight and then confronting new contradictions and conflicts over her maturing body. Young Runners
This annual sporting event takes place on Sunday, May 1 when keen runners and complete novices get together for a five-mile race, a one-mile adult run and a one-mile children's event.
She has loads of natural talent as a runner and with rigorous training she could be a world-beater.
To describe a single extrasystole, an ectopic heartbeat, as like a slight stumble in a dance and to introduce the complex mechanism of hearing with the statement that 'every one of us has a tiny harp inside his ear' suggests that he is a skillful teacher.… The kathartai, forerunners of doctors in pre-Hippocratic Greece, were said to purify the soul by the soothing and calming combination of music, dance, poetry and song. The Chicago Blog: April 2006 Archives
Sen. Clinton may have succeeded in getting people to call her "Hillary" and to have made them feel resigned to her front-runnership, but what kind of achievement is that? Archive 2007-09-01
She's an extremely powerful runner.
For runners, the best approach is some gentle stretching followed by a few mobility drills and exercises. Times, Sunday Times
Johnson always has been a bit of a slow starter in terms of throwing out runners.
Surely our leaders would be better engaged to remove all traces of film music from our holy places rather than chasing female marathon runners.
It has become a rabbit warren for drug dealers and gun runners. The Sun
It emphasizes the initiative of human spirit, becomes the forerunner of idealism and transcendental philosophy, and finally results in a type of theology.
Kelly draws up a large, impressive, even diverse, cast of Irish cops and gunrunners, Italian mobsters and mistresses, Russian immigrants and killers, saints and scoundrels.

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