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Example sentences for "she ran"

  • She ran up the high stone steps and rang a bell.

  • She was a piteous and unseemly spectacle, as she ran, weeping and panting for breath.

  • At that instant the dying man recovered consciousness and uttered a groan; she ran to him.

  • A minute later, beside herself, she ran out on to the canal bank in the direction of X.

  • On coming home, she ran up to her own room, and sitting by the open window, gave herself up to that delicious dream of new-found joy.

  • She ran up to him joyfully, and he led her a few steps from her mother's party.

  • She ran on to Charlotte and her donkey, but at the next gate Guy had joined company again.

  • She ran, shivering with the cold, into her mother's bedroom.

  • She ran now, fleetly, lightly, the ground seeming to spur her on.

  • She told herself that if she ran on, down, down, down, she must come to the valley sometime.

  • She ran off a few steps, like a blown leaf along the ground, then crouched unobtrusively, in submissive, wild patience.

  • She ran in again as a rule at lunch time, to tell him the course of events, and every evening, when the curtains were drawn, and his room was cosy, she spent a long time with him.

  • She ran in one flash to her room and locked herself in.

  • She ran to the banisters, looking over, and calling, "Oh, Mac!

  • She ran up the stairs, opened the door of the room, and paused, out of breath.

  • The dentist, stunned, bewildered, gazed stupidly after her as she ran up the extension of B Street through the rain.

  • She ran to her mistress, and, breathless with fear, cried, "You are discovered by a vile astrologer!

  • She was moaning and lamenting even as she ran in, and now she threw her apron over her face and sank into a chair, continuing her moaning and her lamentations.

  • Blindly, instinctively, she ran forward, thinking only to reach Armand, and to warn him to turn back before it was too late; before he found himself face to face with the most bitter enemy he and his nearest and dearest had ever had.

  • The baroness did not wait for a repetition; she ran to her husband, who immediately hastened to his agent, and ordered him to sell at any price.

  • She ran for a stick to poke with, while Jan bravely mounted the box again, and, firmly anchored by Marie's grasp upon his legs, he soon succeeded in rescuing the pail.

  • She ran to the door and brought in Jan and kissed him; and then she called her husband.

  • No one was in sight, the smooth road sloped invitingly before her, and finding the temptation irresistible, Jo darted away, soon leaving hat and comb behind her and scattering hairpins as she ran.

  • If he had any doubts about the reception she would give him, they were set at rest the minute she looked up and saw him, for dropping everything, she ran to him, exclaiming in a tone of unmistakable love and longing.

  • Laurie lifted his eyebrows and followed at a leisurely pace as she ran downstairs, but when they got into the carriage he took the reins himself, and left little Baptiste nothing to do but fold his arms and fall asleep on his perch.

  • Her light step could not be heard as she ran up the stairs.

  • She ran like a child, ran till the sharp morning air made her breathless, then walked until she was able to run again.

  • After leaving the parlour, she ran out to a little shop in Kennington Road and purchased a sheet of note-paper and an envelope.

  • She ran on, and Ackroyd sauntered away without a glance after her.

  • So saying, she ran off to the kitchen where she was now a great favorite, and sitting down at Judy's feet, began to ask her of Florida and Sunnybank, her former home.

  • Spying Victor coming up the walk from the post-office, she ran out to meet him, telling him of the journey before him, and almost crying for joy when he placed in her hand a worn envelope bearing the post-mark of Tallahassee.

  • Then, with a half feeling of relief, she ran back to her room, bathing her eyes afresh, and succeeding in removing the redness to such an extent, that by lamplight no one would suspect she had been crying.

  • She ran directly to the stockade gate and breathlessly informed a sentinel that she must see Governor Hamilton, into whose presence she was soon led.

  • She ran forth to him and added in a low tone: "You know that Madame Roussillon has hidden all the novels from me.

  • Rene was so caught by surprise that he stood gazing after her until she passed behind a house, where the way turned, the shining flag rippling around her, and her moccasins twinkling as she ran.

  • She ran briskly, muffled in a wrap, partly through fear and partly to keep warm, and had gone two-thirds of her way when she was brought to an abrupt stop by the arms of a man.

  • When little Adrienne Bourcier heard of Renews terrible act, followed by his successful escape to the woods, and of the tempting reward offered by Hamilton for his scalp, she ran to Roussillon place well-nigh crazed with excitement.

  • She ran to the rocket-cart, and got a trumpet from the man in charge.

  • She ran to the bell; but before her hand was on the cord the other said: 'Not yet!

  • When he came opposite the window of the Mandarin room Mrs. Stonehouse saw him; she ran to him and caught Pearl in her arms.

  • Half an hour later, growing suspicious, she ran upstairs, and knocked at the door on a pretext of business.

  • She ran to the window and saw the hunchback and the boy stepping out.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "she ran" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    relapsed heretic; she appeared; she asked; she chose; she couldn; she cried; she desired; she exclaimed; she faltered; she had never seen; she hadn; she held; she interrupted; she loved; she made; she may have been; she ought; she shall; she should; she wasn; she went; she wished; she would have been; she wrote; shedding tears; sheet iron