How To Use Running In A Sentence

  • The protests were going on about 1 kilometers away in the main street and some of the protesting crowd were running from tear gass used among them, towards Salehi St. The film is shot by my friend who was standing beside me. Iran Election Live-Blogging (Saturday June 20 Part II)
  • My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards. Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
  • At any rate, she rolled up the cuffs of her camouflage cargo pants a few times so she didn't trip if today's class required running.
  • Former Rep. Steve Pearce (R) is running to re-claim his old seat. House Democrats reserve $49 million in ad time
  • Running parallel to this tempestuous relationship is the whirlwind romance between weathergirl Hero, played by Billie Piper, and sports presenter Claude.
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  • Labor economics has become virtually a branch of applied econometrics, with the usual large data sets and headless horsemen running around looking for patterns.
  • The case has offered an insight into travails he faced running the family business and securing a successor. Times, Sunday Times
  • The easiest way to support vine crops like cucumbers and tomatoes is to tie their stems to polyethylene string running from a support bar attached to ceiling hooks or from a support frame.
  • They soon added a try when one of their strong running centres burst through some ineffectual tackling to score under the posts.
  • Place under cold running water for 20 minutes.
  • A half-timbered family hotel with rooms off a creaky wooden balcony running round two sides of a courtyard.
  • The listener can be a bottleneck if it is single threaded, and if InterChange Server is not running on a high speed disk subsystem.
  • That mountain, running with springs, is basically pyramidal and shaped and notched in the center.
  • California founded the celebrity culture, and as publicity stunts go, running for governor is on the cheap and easy side of the spectrum.
  • The cloaker had begun running low on power, she realized. The Heart of the Warrior
  • he had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind
  • While the report recognised that Health Secretary has made some moves to decentralise the running of health care in England, experts claim the Scottish Executive is refusing to loosen its grip on the NHS.
  • She emotionally recalls what it was like as a teenager running into her homeless dad on the streets and pretending she didn't know him.
  • Many local children play on the dirt grounds around this farm with the cockerels running loose all day.
  • Running low on fuel Fuchida headed directly back to the battle fleet, now 190 miles north of Oahu.
  • After one longing look down the path, she turned around, and started running back the way she'd come.
  • Since my parents both commuted a long way from home, long before the word "playdate" ever existed, I spent most afternoons running from house to house, soaking up the sounds, smells and tastes. Jessica Seinfeld: Reclaiming Family Food
  • It is more than a decade since a coach and her young prodigy stood on a windswept Sheffield running track and envisaged the future. Times, Sunday Times
  • Part of the Islamic tradition is to set strict rules for ablutions, washing hands, arms, face and feet with running water before praying.
  • The needle pulsates when the engine is running.
  • The thread running through many of these proposals was the theme of individual power and opportunity.
  • If you're running for more than 20 minutes, bring a water bottle and rehydrate during your workout as well as afterward.
  • I think the one that's really obvious is when he's running through the parkade and it's yellow.
  • She contends that U.S. officials overreacted, rather than dealing pragmatically with adoption procedures in a country where poverty and a long-running insurgency fueled widespread child abandonment, impaired record-keeping, and hampered official investigative capabilities. Despite Hurdles, Families Pursue Nepal Adoptions
  • The superior temporal gyrus is subdivided into two or more obliquely running, short, transverse temporal gyri.
  • The men, wearing ski masks and dark clothing, were seen running off down Water Lane.
  • Between Koma and The Eye Angelica Lee is running the risk of being typecast as the organ-transplant actress.
  • Indeed, I know a Scottish businessman who co-owns a horse that is running on the all-weather tracks this winter.
  • Any dog not in harness was howling and yelping to be put in one, and even when harnessed they continued with their wretched wailing until they were off and running.
  • The maximum penalty for running grog into a restricted area is $1000 or six months for a first offence, and $2000 or 12 months for a second, plus forfeiture of the vehicle or aircraft.
  • We have to be alert to the warning signs that our egos are running rampant. Times, Sunday Times
  • Unless we can supply our forward units, the advance is in danger of running out of steam.
  • Millions of consumer electronics devices - mobile phones, PDAs, PVRs, and DVD platers - are already running on stripped-down embedded versions of Linux.
  • Yes, you also called me scrofulous, which sent me running to my doctor. Matthew Yglesias » Feel the Kausmentum
  • Lets hope her constituents rise up in the next election and oust this unqualified and opportunitistic showboater who only won by running against an unpopular and dying incumbent. Archive 2009-08-01
  • The police took no further action but it led to a long-running feud between the pair. Times, Sunday Times
  • Another hint: He is currently running for president.
  • It began as a bulky analogue box running spools of tape.
  • It's becoming more free - more location work and running along beaches.
  • The mountain chain that gave the region its name bisected the region, running all the way from the Black Sea to the Caspian. Deathride
  • Kelvin surmounted this problem by running a single wire along his machine that went around each wheel, so that the combined effects of all wheels would be represented by the motion at the end of the wire.
  • If I call a lisp routine, via the command line then the lisp code will run and the VBA code will try to continue running. All Discussion Groups: Message List - root
  • The vermis, running down the middle, connects with the right and left fastigial nuclei.
  • The shell-shocked stowaway was discovered running around the immigration detention centre at Manchester Airport after a flight from Jamaica.
  • We have increased housing support grant so that all local authorities that incur a deficit in running a hostel will qualify for grant.
  • I could faintly hear the sounds of running water somewhere in the building.
  • This episode deals with the different types of animals featured in the outback, including kangaroos, wallabies, koalas, and other fuzzy, cute animals running around Australia.
  • In other words, women often get attached before their cognitive machinery is up and running at full throttle.
  • In recent decades, though, especially sine the end of Soviet tyranny, the safe-haven idea has lost cogency like an unwound watch running down.
  • Instead, components are patched together just to keep the system running.
  • These are all imponderables and much of it is down to luck in running, in the words of that immortal phrase.
  • They are introducing new measures to ensure the smooth running of the business.
  • “If Senator Obama doesn't have time to give Wisconsin voters 90 minutes on the issues, he's going to have a difficult time explaining that,” Penn said, noting HRC is running a tv ad in the cheese-head state to that effect. Obama Claims the (Thorny) Crown - Swampland - TIME.com
  • Newspapers papers of Bangladesh were running through hand composed printing press technology then upgraded by lino and photocompose technology and offset printing press. ICT and Media in Bangladesh
  • This is a mission-critical application running on two AIX HA pairs.
  • The difference in horsepower per cylinder is the cause of rough running at lean mixtures.
  • In his time with the Army, he was also a sportsman, taking part in hurdling, football, running and boxing.
  • Me and two more fellows put something over five hundred looms on what they call dollies, they just shut down about eight a day and move eight a day and move them down in the new part and put them to running. Oral History Interview with Jefferson M. Robinette, July 1977. Interview H-0041. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
  • Eh, Brother, don't you mean any and all capitalist running dogs are smelly, of which the Noble House and the House of Chen are chief and dung heavy?" he said banteringly. Noble House
  • ‘The New York Post’ this morning bannered Congressman Dick Gephardt as Kerry's vice presidential running mate.
  • All across the world, ...increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it's here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster. Barack Obama 
  • The briefest rinse under a running tap will be enough.
  • In a typical game of badminton, contestants expend as much energy as in running a mile; singles games give the most vigorous aerobic workout. Times, Sunday Times
  • I wouldn't mind getting a primer from some reputable person with experience running houseboys, or houseboys who are willing to share their experiences.
  • Her husband's left her and the kids are running wild, so it's not surprising that she can't cope.
  • Running through the orange grove, which already had little green oranges on, past the chickens, she froze with horror.
  • It threatens to unravel a deal over the long-running pay dispute which led to an all-out strike.
  • The three-layer system architecture of conflict detection based on fuzzy constraint network is put forward. A corresponding prototype is developed and its running process is described.
  • But our members have made it clear their deep well of goodwill is running dry.
  • Opened in 2007, the family-run Forte S ā o Jo ā o da Barra is part of a small but growing band of hotels running countercurrent to the wave of mass tourism that has swept over much of the Algarve region during the past 40 years. Portugal's Alluring Hideaways
  • Hats bowl away, coats fly open, skirts cling, umbrellas flype themselves: and their owners, grotesquely running, grabbing, snatching, struggling, are consumed with rueful and involuntary mirth. Try Anything Twice
  • This civvie was at his desk, making sure that all your wonderful (ahem) IT systems were up and running, but Im just a pleb and not management. The Smooth And Efficient Running Of A Police Station « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • Because most self-adhesive stabilizers are tear-away, they'll give good results on designs with light stitch counts, but often don't hold up on denser or longer running designs.
  • So I began running up and down the court pigeon-toed, just like Dominique, hoping that would make me an ethereal dunker. In the Time of Bobby Cox
  • When he was running alongside, he eased off the gas and matched his speed to that of the other vehicle.
  • I timed it successfully, and had no doubt of having added four to my score, when, to my astonishment, I saw a fieldsman running from the direction of the hedge. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 14th, 1920
  • He knew nothing of the elaborate machinery of ingenious chicane, - such as feigning bankruptcy - fraudulent conveyances - making over to his wife - running property - and had never heard of such tricks of trade as sending out coffins to the graveyard, with negroes inside, carried off by sudden spells of imaginary disease, to be "resurrected," in due time, grinning, on the banks of the Brazos. The flush times of Alabama and Mississippi : a series of sketches,
  • The chairman warned the senator to toe the party line while running for the governor.
  • Her family, who made a nice living running a business, feared anti-Semitic backlash.
  • I'm in my running shorts and my T-shirt, and I'm barefooted.
  • Cassie whirled about, dropped the stickweed, and came running, laughing. The Dollmaker
  • In theory, this could be a smart strategic move but it is likely to "domesticate" Julian Assange; running such an NGO would require too many boring meetings with potential funders many of whom have already been alienated by the organisation and a nine-to-five office routine - the exact opposite of the glamorous nomadic lifestyle that the founder of WikiLeaks has become famous for. The Guardian World News
  • After that, the stories came out in a rush, many of them editorials by journalists congratulating themselves for not running the story in the first place.
  • Running around this landscape of giant heathers, you will also see ostriches, bonteboks, baboons and, if you are lucky, a fly-past from a blue crane.
  • Two operators work best when the first starts to apply chemical while the other assembles the machine and gets it running.
  • When he left, AEW took the unusual step of outsourcing to Tristan the management of two funds that Mr. Lewis had been running at AEW. U.K. Property Deal Puts Focus on Secondary Markets
  • Running costs will be shared between licensed premises. Times, Sunday Times
  • When increased regulations made running the chatline more difficult in Britain, he simply chased business elsewhere.
  • * occasionally, on colleagues 'computers running Mac OS X; nowadays, touch wood, we see this rarely but past reports include: boots up and the desktop appears but it will not open anything - all i get is the' beachball 'rotating continually. Discussions: Message List - root
  • The days of flyposter louts running riot on our high streets are over. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • FLATOW: So you just, basically, unspool it, like you were running a trans-Atlantic cable? Carrying Wind Power, Underwater
  • I do hope I won't have to start running a spam-eating app on my weblog's comments!
  • ln less than six minutes, the ambulance came wailing back from the shipyard, one of the police cars in front of it running interference. CORMORANT
  • Simply running an ad advocating a position on a law has gotten them into a criminal court.
  • My current processor is a 2 ghz Pentium M in a laptop, so I'm not sure at all what multiple cores actually get done in the real world, and am having trouble finding such info. posted on Sun Dec 28, 2008 9: 05 pm coelomate wrote: Say I have two monitors (19x12 and 16x10) up and rocking, and decide to have an instant messaging program, iTunes, a spread sheet, a word document, and firefox all running. The Tech Report: News
  • In a centered closure, the zipper is concealed by two flaps of cloth running along either side.
  • We were running extremely low on cash yesterday, and I didn't get paid until today.
  • It helps keep the village running smoothly and upholds the village's customs.
  • Luck is really running against you tonight!
  • And so he had grown in the warmth of his parents 'love, trained in what we call outdoor sports, but which are life itself to the Arab, until at fourteen no one could surpass him in running or horsemanship or spear-throwing, whilst with rifle or revolver he could clip the hair off the top of a man's head, the which strenuous accomplishments he balanced in passing his leisure moments in the gentle arts of verse-making and even music, in spite of the latter being condemned by religion; also did he learn to converse in foreign tongues. Desert Love
  • He'd been running the clinic at a substantial profit for nearly ten years.
  • A shock-headed boy, breathless from running, flung himself into the room.
  • Children were running around squealing with excitement.
  • But he's happily married to Stacy Creamer , a world-class triathlete and a two-time world champion in the duathlon, a running and cycling race. In It for the Long Run
  • The tide is running with us and we make good speed down-river around the bend from Westminster and from there to the opposite shore of the river. Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
  • The leaflet says: ‘We need to form a new committee and require other helpers to assist in organising and running events that you want.’
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger, Donald Trump, Vice-President Dick Cheney, and dozens of others on the long-running sketch series, tells GossipCop. com that “retired from the show last year.” “SNL” Conan/Leno Parody, Featuring Larry King & David Letterman [VIDEO]
  • She points out that there is some irony in living in a "Lake House" without a lake and even though, as I pedantically remind her, the word lake is Anglo-Saxon for "running stream," which we do have, and not a standing body of water, which we don't, her logic does not escape me. Broken Music, A Memoir
  • This could be your web server, a desktop computer running a database client application, or both.
  • An example of multitasking would be: running your Internet browser and word processor at the same time.
  • Carl began in the music business by running a recording studio.
  • In running the same course of action is likely to do little more than raise a few curious glances from fellow competitors.
  • Pretty soon the place was populated with everybody from gypsies to prime ministers to people with turbans running around - it was indeed an Orson party.
  • We've been running updates on it for a few days off the NBC feed.
  • The project is running into financial difficulties.
  • After all that running I have no breath left.
  • And when it came to details, he was known to be worse than a fussy abbess running a nunnery.
  • Laughing, she adds, is much healthier than running: it gingers up the metabolism in the same way, but without the negative side effects.
  • Senator Jim Webb, the Virginia Democrat, former Navy Secretary and once and forever Marine, said unequivocally today that he was not interested in serving as Senator Barack Obama's running mate.
  • Why are you running such unnecessary risks with a great relationship? The Sun
  • During the week running up to the meeting the campus was transformed into an arena of political debate.
  • The Church hopes that providing rent-free or subsidised facilities will cut the overheads of running a rural post office and persuade the Post Office to replace postmasters.
  • Next in importance after Ashford in east Kent were the running depots (engine sheds) of the two rival lines, where a number of engines were based, cleaned and maintained, and where the majority of the footplate crews were based.
  • he is running the Marathon this year
  • At the time, the term childhood obesity was not making headlines, but the running community, usually ahead of the curve when it comes to health issues, felt that kids were in need of an extra push to get out and work their bodies. Young Runners
  • Consider running for office - locally or nationally.
  • You'll need to upgrade your hard drive to 4Mb before running this software.
  • Our army routed the enemy into running for their lives.
  • I have two drivers, one brassy, a baffy or spoon, two cleeks (one shorter than the other), an iron, sometimes one mashie, sometimes two (one for running up and the other for pitch shots), a niblick, and sometimes two putters (one for long running-up putts and the other for holing out). The Complete Golfer
  • Clad in a nightdress, boots (no socks) and a mackintosh, I am swept along by the crowd running before the speeding police jeeps until we are surrounded on all sides by heavily armed police.
  • Last season his running into space helped his team immensely. Times, Sunday Times
  • She was one of the ship's top engineers and she kept it running smoothly.
  • The salmon fishing, black bear, moose, and caribou sightings, and frequent stops for scouting and portaging easily turn running the Main into a weeklong wilderness adventure.
  • Another thread running through this series is the role of doctors in the treatment of the mentally ill.
  • The winch man was running out the cable, allowing the barrage balloon to rise.
  • And thrice in the time that I did go, there did be a running of feet amid the darkness; and odd whiles strange and horrid cryings in the night; so that I put a force upon my despair, and hid me; for, indeed, I had no right to lose care of my life, if there did be any chance yet that I find the Maid. The Night Land
  • He set a demolition charge on the device before running back. The Sun
  • Thedemo car was still running in so I was limited in how much welly I could give it.
  • There are certain basic requirements of humanity which are not negotiable when it comes to running prisons. The Prisons We Deserve
  • Finally, as we are running full out, our lungs are taking in oxygen as fast as they can to feed this whole process.
  • Pumps do not tolerate dry running.
  • He is the only candidate running who had the judgment to do so from the outstart. Gerth/Van Natta Publisher Promoting Disputed Point As Book's Top Revelation
  • He's running what NPR's Frank James has characterized as a "kudzu campaign. NPR Topics: News
  • Modern roads have a maze of water and sewer pipes running beneath them.
  • In that time, a variety of advances made by the Linux development community and system vendors has enabled a whole new class of scalable computers running Linux.
  • Their baserunning is bad, and their overall fundamental play is worse. USATODAY.com - Yanks, Mariners will have hands full
  • From a sector perspective, this means that the government's running a deficit on goods and services axiomatically translates into the rest of the economy's running a surplus. SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
  • You can't solve anything by just running away.
  • New facilities include a pool and a running track.
  • This streaker has committed at least two arrestable offences by showing himself in public and running onto the pitch.
  • It's like the music in the movies where the hero is training for greatness; sparring in a basement with a punching bag or running like the wind or something.
  • His decision to specify something bigger, better or more daring than the norm was logical, not hubristic: he believed it would result in a faster, safer, smoother-running railway.
  • A plump, fast running bird which keeps to the undergrowth, the black francolin only flies when disturbed.
  • It was high, fifty thousand, but his lawyer's either got deep pockets or a running tab with a bail bondsman.
  • From hiking boots to beach sandals, even the more specialist items such as ergonomic running shoes and walking boots. Archive 2008-08-01
  • And the running game struggled again as the two running backs averaged 2.8 yards a carry.
  • I simply place 100 cases in a shallow cardboard tray, and use a spray-on lube before running them through the progressive cycle.
  • We are also concerned that scant attention is being paid to the cost of running the services promised. Times, Sunday Times
  • My home on Sunday became a place of carefree fun, little wet boys running to and fro, glistening beads of moisture running down their soft nubile chests.
  • They're rerunning a two-part ‘Biography for Kids’ that Harry did, visiting the set and interviewing the folks behind, in and under the Muppets.
  • Running off to the race track -- on their wedding day, no less -- is sure to discombobulate him. Michael Giltz: Theater Reviews: "Nixon In China!" Olympia Dukakis On A Milkcart! Bloody Ethan Hawke! More!
  • Most doctors chose to remove all surrounding lymph nodes instead of running the risk of a false negative.
  • To get there, the Beaverton, Ore., sportswear giant plans to open more stores, put a renewed focused on recreational sports such as running and snowboarding, and emphasize its stable of local endorsers such as Chinese Olympic track-and-field star Liu Xiang and Chinese tennis player Li Na. In China, Nike Sets Out to Alter Sports Mindset
  • He turned around to see me with kohl and mascara running down my cheeks.
  • When your clients are running late on their payments, it is unlikely that they will be able to retire the entire balance in one payment.
  • But the teams are rapidly running out of alternative explanations for these events.
  • As the slope steepens, warm, moist air overrunning the cold air is cut off and the precipitation coverage begins to rapidly decrease.
  • 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.
  • I'm running an after-school amateur radio club for high-school students, and they are interested in the theoretical aspects -- antenna theory, transmission lines, single-sideband, things like that. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • I seem to have been running round in circles all day and yet I've got no progress to show for it.
  • He and others in the rogues' gallery of international terrorists may be running out of time.
  • With the recruitment process still running, the job specification for the role was suddenly downgraded two weeks ago to remove any responsibility for the senior England team. Times, Sunday Times
  • To-day I became strongly impressed with the idea, that the balloon was now actually running up the line of apsides to the point of perigee -- in other words, holding the direct course which would bring it immediately to the moon in that part of its orbit the nearest to the earth. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1
  • It soon was apparent that what showed as paths on the map were actually berms running beside irrigation canals.
  • Virtual tests manifested that running stability of the special tractor - semitrailer satisfy the design requirement.
  • Inside a rehearsal space at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center this week, a group of musicians including former múm vocalist Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir, an Icelandic string trio Gyda Valtýsdóttir, Borgar Magnason and Maria Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir and the Seattle-based Aono Jikken Ensemble were running through their cues and a new score by composer Matthew Patton. Worldwide Hospitalities
  • If you're running Windows, update your system to the latest version of Internet Explorer and be done with it.
  • The country is running a balance-of-payments/budget/trade deficit of $250 million.
  • It was quite a large foul drain, running 60 feet from the house. Times, Sunday Times
  • With the machine running, gradually add enough oil to achieve a sloppy paste consistency.
  • The city was perched on its barren, hot rock, with scarcely a drop of water, and its inhabitants must often have been tempted to wish that there had been running down the sun-bleached bed of the Kedron a flashing stream, such as laved the rock-cut temples and tombs of Thebes. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah
  • Dogged as a flip-flopper in 2008 for his repeated policy shifts to the right, Mr. Romney is running this time as the unflappable former businessman and nonpolitician. Romney, in Shift, to Court Tea Party
  • The proportion at the required level has stuck at 75 per cent in English for the third year running.
  • They spent their time running backwards and forwards around the vehicles and buildings carrying wounded victims to shelter. Broken Lives
  • At a running time of around four minutes, the overture is segmented into four themes.
  • There is a theme running through the magazine of crushes on gorgeous men, and mysterious romances with strange disappearing boys.
  • “Everything else is running smoothly,” she said—too quickly and too patly. Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Shattered Light
  • It is these terms and conditions in conjunction with the Partnership Act which will regulate the running of the enterprise.
  • My dear brethren and sisters, I must still tell you that I have been four times in danger of my life when running in my kaiak, for so often have I been overset when I was quite alone. The Moravians in Labrador
  • We were running/cycling two abreast.
  • Furthermore, if the moneymen in Beijing, Tokyo, Berlin, and the other nations currently running trade surpluses against the U.S. start to ponder exaggerated retaliation against the U.S., they will soon discover the advantage is with us, not them. Ian Fletcher: Why Donald Trump Is Right on Trade
  • This business and the risk it entails are much less transparent than running the nation's telephone service. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sometimes you'll find shoals of roach and perch in streams running out into the bays.
  • Kopila Valley is a co-educational primary school running from Nursery Class up to sixth grade. Shira Lazar: The Inspired Nation: 24-Year-Old Builds Orphanage and School in Nepal
  • Three times I can remember it: the ending tunnel silhouette in "The Third Man," falling rubble jarringly breaking up a scene (by splicing the foreground and midground) in of all things "Duck Soup," and noticing a borrowed composition from "La Dolce Vida" (namely, a long shot where multiple people were running and the camera followed them) showing up in "Little Miss Sunshine. Reverse Storyboarding

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