How do you use the word "run" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "run": Someday I'll run like the wind. Why did you try to run away?

Run Meaning

/ɹʌn/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

verbTo move swiftly.

verbTo move swiftly., To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot.

Sentence Examples

Someday I'll run like the wind.

Why did you try to run away?

I go for a run every morning.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

test pass lead

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

To catch the departing bus before it leaves, you must ____ as quickly as possible.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

She decided to ____ the marathon to raise money for the local children's hospital.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English runnen, rennen (“to run”), alteration (due to the past participle runne, runnen, yronne) of Middle English rinnen (“to run”), from Old English rinnan, iernan (“to run”) and Old Norse rinna (“to run”), both from Proto-Germanic *rinnaną (“to run”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reyH- (“to boil, churn”). Cognate with Scots rin (“to run”), West Frisian rinne (“to walk, march”), archaic Dutch rinnen (“to flow”, still in geronnen), German rinnen (“to flow”), Swedish rinna (“to flow”), and Icelandic renna (“to flow”). From the causative Proto-Germanic *rannijaną (“to make run”) are Dutch rennen, German rennen, Danish rende, Swedish ränna (all “to run”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian rend (“to run, run after”). See also random.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Through the open front door ran Jessamy, down the steps to where Kitto was sitting at the bottom with the pram beside him." — 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 122:

"Once I ran to you (I ran) / Now I run from you / This tainted love you've given / I give you all a boy could give you" — 1965, Ed Cobb, “Tainted Love”, in Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret, performed by Soft Cell, published 1981:

"Challenger and I ran Summerlee along, one at each of his elbows, while Lord John covered our retreat, firing again and again as savage heads snarled at us out of the bushes." — 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

"Small planes run between Alor and Langkawi. BUS: Express busses leave the bus terminal on the corner of Jl. Langgar and Jl. Stesyen for K. Kedah, […]" — 1997, Karl-Heinz Reger, Nelles Verlag Staff, Malaysia - Singapore - Brunei, Hunter Publishing, Inc, →ISBN, page 91:

"The first steam ferry or tug, the Little Minnie, ran the river in the 1870s. When vehicles were to cross, a barge was affixed to the Minnie to carry them." — 2013 April 15, Mary Ann Sternberg, Along the River Road: Past and Present on Louisiana's Historic Byway, LSU Press, →ISBN, page 62:

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