I guess even our best people out there would give you a shock--and I don't pretend I even ran with them!
I ran after him, while the chauffeur turned the car round and slowly followed us both.
My repair bills, too, stopped as though by magic, and the bubble ran so well I guess people must have sat up nights with it!
Below them a garden ran to the water's edge and gave access to a wooden pier projecting some thirty or forty feet beyond.
He electrocuted me extra from a switchboard, ran red-hot needles into my legs, and finally, after banging me around the room, said I was the strongest and wellest man who had ever entered his office.
In her eagerness she jumped up and ran to Coal Oil Johnny, as though to hold him tight and prevent his being snatched away from her by the others.
I ran my sword through an old man who was trying to run his through me.
When I was a child, and bruised my head against a stone, I ran to the nearest woman and cried away my pain against her apron.
I ran away from it very often: in fact I became famous for running away from it.
She stood still, dumb with pain, and thrills of awe ran through her voice when it struggled back to her.
When it opened, and Paul came forth, the lad ran to meet him, and the two went away together, talking earnestly on the road to school.
They had come to see a murderess--something wild and exciting--a scene to frighten their children with in after times, and talk over with the neighbors when subjects of gossip ran low.
It is not colder than usual," he answered, curtly; but a thrill ran through his frame and the blood tingled in his veins.
A board fence ran along the front yard, hedging in some lilac bushes and a huge snowball bush.
From the falls downward, the valley was choked up with noble forest trees, through which the river ran slowly and grandly till it swept around the shadowy base of Castle Rock, and disappeared on its way to join the Housatonic.
Down in the outskirts of the pine woods, on the Fall's Hill side of the Naugatuc, a river road ran along the curving base of the hill, and wound seaward with the stream.
A tiny brook, that died out in dry weather and sprung to existence on rainy days, ranalong one end of the school-house.
Then a murmur ranthrough the court, and suppressed whispers went from lip to lip.
She took up her Bible and tried to read, but the letters ran together on the page, harassing her sight, but giving back no sense.
In the course of a week, the two nutcrackers ran into debt; Mme.
Pons going a-gallivanting,' on my word, I did, I was so sure that women ran after you.
He took the first step in the downward path by undertaking a host of small commissions; many and many a time Pons ran on errands instead of the porter or the servant; many a purchase he made for his entertainers.
The piece was a dramatized fairy tale, a pantomime called The Devil's Betrothed, which ran for two hundred nights.
I laughed till the tears ran down my cheeks while listening to the discussions going on outside.
The road ran the whole distance on the face of almost perpendicular hills, and for the greater part of the way was guarded by a low wall on the dangerous side.
At other times, when Lemaitre had breakfasted copiously, he did not dine, but the manager's purse then ran another peril.
We were in the woods: a high hill was close against us on one side, and on the other a steep embankment went down to the shore of a rapid stream that ran through the valley.
All Paris ran to see it, and it was played for an unparalleled length of time.
I immediately roared for help, and in ran my wife, followed by neighbours.
He ran for freedom, that dear treasure of even a thief's soul; and I ran to deprive him of it, a feeling as dear to a detective.
She said them to a little girl in a white frock, with her hair freshly curled, carrying a doll, and she ran away crying with fright.
Then she turned and went down the walk between the rows of marigolds and asters, and the woman stood staring after her for a minute, then ran in, and the windows filled with wondering faces.
Amanda ran and opened the door, and Mrs. Babcock entered, panting.
As the oil burned low, the indistinct figures upon the carpet and wall-paper grew more indistinct, the brilliant colors of the prisms turned white, and the fine black and white lights in the death-bed picture ran together.
On one side the vast room led into the refrigerating room of the company; on the other it opened upon a long but narrow dock that ran the width of the building.
Just outside the rear of his sleeping quarters ran the wire right-of-way fence, which was also the back fence of a small piece of property on which stood a rickety old house.
Where another similar bulb might have been in the other socket was a plug from which an insulated wire, evidently to furnish power, ran to the small motor connected with the machine on which Henry Smitz had been working.
He ran rapidly, keeping in the sawdust that formed the unfruitful soil of the lumber-yard, until he dared come no nearer, and then he climbed to the top of the tallest lumber-pile and lay flat.
Anson, and he ran to hold his own horse, which he had haltered right in camp.
He ran straight to the girl, who sprang to her feet.
Bo's horse ran as fast in the woods as he did in the open.
Up in one of the parks I ran across one of my horses--a lame bay you haven't seen.
He ran in and out of the straggling spruces along the edge of the park, and suddenly wheeled around a corner of trees to come upon the gray mustang standing still.
You've had a tumble," exclaimed Helen, anxiously, and she ran to assist Roy.
Out of the black spruce slopes shone patches of aspens, gloriously red and gold, and low down along the edge of timber troops of aspens ran out into the park, not yet so blazing as those above, but purple and yellow and white in the sunshine.
Abruptly he stopped, averted his gaze, then slowly ran the hand all along that side.
Then, suddenly, as Bo fondled the long ears, it gave a start and, breaking away, ran back out of sight under the pines.
Far up on the slope, in a little hollow where water ran and there was a little grass for Ranger to pick, Dale haltered him and made ready to spend the night.
The invisible brook ran down over the rocks with murmur and babble.
A few stately pines stood out from the rocks, and a clump of silver spruce ran down to a brown brook.
Paul, with his face towards the north having immediately behind him the long walls which ran down to the sea, affording protection against a foreign enemy.
Founded on the Palatine Hill, it extended, by degrees, so as to take in six other hills at the foot of which ran deep valleys that in early times were in part overflowed with water, while the hill-sides were covered with trees.
The first person he saw there was a tall, slim, lovely girl, whom he did not recognize at first, but who knew him and ran up to him and introduced herself as Aneta.
She ran downstairs unnoticed by any one, opened a side-door which was used as a tradesmen's entrance, and got into the street.
She ran to find Miss Lucy in order to obtain the key of the box-room.
Merry ran off to join her sister, and it is not too much to say that the whole of that glorious day was one of unalloyed pleasure.
She ran back to fetch Lady Lysle, and conducted that amazed and indignant woman into the house.
She ran up to Aneta; she took her hand; she raised it to her lips and kissed it.
Cicely ran off at once, and Merry and Molly were left alone.
Mr. Cardew sprang from the hansom, desired the man to wait, ran up some low steps, and rang the bell at the front door of a stately mansion.
On the following morning early a little girl ran swiftly from the Manor to the rectory.
She ran back to Aylmer House as quickly as she could.
Maggie ran to prepare a table for its reception, and Tildy looked at her with eyes of fresh admiration.
The broad belt of land over which the village was scattered, rose near the shore, as already mentioned, into a sort of crest overgrown with mangroves and myrtle bushes, through the middle of which ran a broad footpath.
All the world ran away from him, as they would from a falling house.
A feeling of reliefran through The crowd, whose visages look'd rue, To think their fun forestall'd and spent By that untoward accident.
Here she held out her arms, and tearsran hot down her faded cheeks.
She ran down the icy path to the gate, and, looking along the road, saw that a tall figure had nearly reached the spur of the hill, around which the road turned.
The rough road ran between rude stone-fences and straggling apple-trees to the village, lying some two miles to the southeast.
In one place the road ran off in a kind of loop, to pass through an outlying village, and, by making a cross-cut at that point, he might save himself five or six miles.
Cornelia ran down-stairs; her papa had just gone out to the wagon; she went into Bressant's room, and walked quickly up to the bedside.
However, she held on very tight with one hand, held Baby Akbar still tighter with the other, and trusted to Providence, while Roy and Meroo ran beside her on either side, alternately holding up the Royal Umbrella as best they could.
So the thought crossed his mind that if he could only squeeze through he might be able to reach one of those roofs; since, if he remembered aright, a wide cornice ran just below.
The perspiration ran down the travellers' faces and especially down poor Head-nurse's; for she had insisted on taking off her veil to twist it turbanwise round Baby Akbar's head since the Royal Umbrella was forbidden.
But both Bija and Mirak, and even Roy, being light, found the surface hard enough to bear them; so they ran on ahead and chattered and laughed, the whole business being to them a huge joke.
Another second and Roy, sword in hand, had disappeared down it also, remembering as he ran a certain little fretted marble balcony which gave on the gardens below.
So much so that quite a murmur of delighted admirationran round the assemblage when Askurry appeared, leading him by the hand; for he had quickly learned to run about and was now quite steady on his legs.
Keep him there, Tumbu," he whispered as he ranto the gate.
A fresh bubbling spring ran through it, and beneath the Judas trees, whose leafless branches were flushed with pink blossoms, stretched great carpets of spring flowers.
But as he ran downward and downward the frost film on the snow became less and less firm.
She gave a shrug of her proud shoulder that bespoke the French Countess and softly ran her finger round the edge of the placque.
His glance ran rapidly down the sheet and rested upon the final signature.
Mr. Gryce softly ran his thumb around the brim of the hat he held in his hand.
Especially as he seemed greatly disappointed to hear that it only ran once a day, and then for an earlier train in the morning.
One or two mother birds ran off on foot, but took wing as soon as clear of the woods--none remained.
Bellalise ran off after getting sight of the young ones; they were four in number, about the size of a Muskrat, and pure white.
One band of 8, at a stopping place, ran off when they saw passengers alighting, but at half a mile they turned, and again came up against the fence, showing how strong is the northward impulse.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ran" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
