ran

See:
  • (one's) blood runs cold
  • (one's) writ runs
  • a shiver ran down (one's) spine
  • a shiver ran up (one's) spine
  • also ran
  • also-ran
  • course of true love never ran smoothly, the
  • eat and run
  • hit-and-run
  • run
  • run (a)round in circles
  • run (one) off (one's) feet
  • run (one) through
  • run (one's) feet off
  • run (one's) fingers through (one's) hair
  • run (one's) hand through (one's) hair
  • run (one's) head against a brick wall
  • run (one's) mouth
  • run (one's) own show
  • run (someone or something) close
  • run (something) by (one)
  • run (something) by (one) again
  • run (something) by (one) one more time
  • run (something) into (something)
  • run (something) past (one)
  • run (something) up the flagpole
  • run (up) a tab
  • run a brush through (one's) hair
  • run a comb through (one's) hair
  • run a fever
  • run a make on (someone or something)
  • run a mile
  • run a red light
  • run a risk
  • run a taut ship
  • run a temperature
  • run a tight ship
  • run about
  • run about like a headless chicken
  • run across
  • run adrift
  • run afoul of (someone or something)
  • run after (someone or something)
  • run aground
  • run ahead
  • run along
  • run amok
  • run amuck
  • run an errand
  • run an/(one's) eye over (something)
  • run and run
  • run around
  • run around after (someone or something)
  • run around like a blue-arsed fly
  • run around like a chicken with its head cut off
  • run around like a headless chicken
  • run around with (someone)
  • run as (something)
  • run as fast as (one's) legs can carry (one)
  • run at (someone or something)
  • run at a fast clip
  • run away with (one)
  • run away with (one's) tail between (one's) legs
  • run away with (something)
  • run away with the idea
  • run away with the notion
  • run back
  • run back (to someone or something)
  • run back over
  • run behind
  • run between (someone or something)
  • run by (some place)
  • run circles around (someone or something)
  • run circles round (someone or something)
  • run counter to (someone or something)
  • run down
  • run down the clock
  • run down to (someone or something)
  • run dry
  • run for (one's) life
  • run for (something)
  • run for it
  • run for the hills
  • run foul of (someone or something)
  • run from (someone or something)
  • run from (someone or something) to (someone or something
  • run high
  • run hot and cold
  • run in
  • run in (one's) blood
  • run in circles
  • run in place
  • run in the blood
  • run interference
  • run into (someone, something, or some place)
  • run into a brick wall
  • run into a stone wall
  • run into debt
  • run into the sand
  • run it down (to one)
  • run it down for (one)
  • run late
  • run like clockwork
  • run like the wind
  • run low
  • run off
  • run off at the mouth
  • run off in all directions
  • run off the smell of an oily rag
  • run off with (one)
  • run off with (something)
  • run on
  • run on (something)
  • run on all cylinders
  • run on empty
  • run on fumes
  • run on the smell of an oily rag
  • run onto (something)
  • run out
  • run out at (someone or something)
  • run out of (one's) skin
  • run out of (something or some place)
  • run out of gas
  • run out of road
  • run out of steam
  • run out of time
  • run out of town
  • run out the clock
  • run over
  • run over to (someone or something)
  • run over with (something)
  • run past
  • run past (someone or something)
  • run rampant
  • run rhymes
  • run rings around (someone or something)
  • run rings round (someone or something)
  • run riot
  • run roughshod over (someone or something)
  • run scared
  • run short
  • run short of (something)
  • run the clock down
  • run the clock out
  • run the gamut
  • run the good race
  • run the risk
  • run the risk of (something)
  • run the rule over (one)
  • run the show
  • run through (one)
  • run through (something)
  • run to
  • run to fat
  • run to form
  • run to seed
  • run true to form
  • run up
  • run up against (someone or something)
  • run up on (someone or something)
  • run wild
  • run with
  • run with it
  • run with scissors
  • run with the hare and hunt with the hounds
  • running smobble
  • take the ball and run (with it)
  • the course of true love never ran smoothly
  • turn tail and run
References in classic literature
The wolves were now in the country of game, and though they still hunted in pack, they hunted more cautiously, cutting out heavy cows or crippled old bulls from the small moose-herds they ran across.
After that they ran side by side, like good friends who have come to an understanding.
One Eye ran ahead cautiously, his mate at his heels.
Again I ran after him, and again he ran into the cave; but this time I stopped at the mouth.
The flash of lightning, the crash of thunder, and the instantaneous chill that ran through him were all merged for Levin in one sense of terror.
Presently we came to a path that ran to the kraal from the ford of the Umfolozi.
Again we ran, but now we were weak, and they gained upon us.
The wrestler dropped at last; and Alan, leaping back to get his distance, ran upon the others like a bull, roaring as he went.
But the twins ran straight on till they reached their own home.
Let's run and see them.' And they trotted off, Alice repeating to herself, as she ran, the words of the old song:--
His mother, Louise Bentley, the girl who came into the world on that night when Jesse ran through the fields crying to God that he be given a son, had grown to womanhood on the farm and had married young John Hardy of Wines- burg, who became a banker.
When he heard his mother spoken of harshly or when he overheard her berating his father, he was frightened and ran away to hide.
The Martians, alarmed by the approach of a crowd, had killed a number of people with a quick-firing gun, so the story ran. The telegram concluded with the words: "Formi- dable as they seem to be, the Martians have not moved from the pit into which they have fallen, and, indeed, seem incapa- ble of doing so.
No doubt, ran the report, the situation was of the strangest and gravest description, but the public was exhorted to avoid and discourage panic.
Then they all ran harder than they had ever run in their lives; and the King's men, coming after them, began to run too; and the Captain ran hardest of all.