NOUN
- (football) a back on the offensive team (a fullback or halfback) who tries to advance the ball by carrying it on plays from the line of scrimmage
How To Use running back In A Sentence
- After one longing look down the path, she turned around, and started running back the way she'd come.
- He set a demolition charge on the device before running back. The Sun
- And the running game struggled again as the two running backs averaged 2.8 yards a carry.
- I focus on eight players because six running backs and two alternates are elected to the Pro Bowl each year so that seems to be a fair marker for a standard of excellence.
- They spent their time running backwards and forwards around the vehicles and buildings carrying wounded victims to shelter. Broken Lives
- Running back and forth was one of his. Times, Sunday Times
- No one can outrun someone by running backwards, so don't try… if you are facing someone and decide to run, step cornerwise back, turning and running at the same time.
- Rushing to one side of the proscenium arch, rebounding and running back to the other, they are like a shoal of fish with short memories.
- I have seen the roles of their bloodlines, running back through scores of names and equal generations.
- Keep in mind the tab was over $300 and they had Benny, the career waiter, running back and forth for hours.
