run – English noun declension

English noun forms of run

Noun: run
Singularrun
Pluralruns

Sample Sentences

  • I just got back from my morning run.
  • Krohn-Dehli took advantage of a lucky bounce of the ball after a battling run on the left flank by Simon Poulsen, dummied two defenders and shot low through goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg's legs after 24 minutes. [2012 June 9, Owen Phillips, “Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark”, in BBC Sport:]
  • I need to make a run to the store.
  • […] and on the 18th of January this squadron put to sea. The first place of rendezvous was the boy of port St. Julian, upon the coast of Patagonia, and all accidents were provided against with admirable foresight. Their run to port St. Julian was dangerous […] [1759, N. Tindal, The Continuation of Mr Rapin's History of England, volume 21 (continuation volume 9), page 92]
  • Jackson said the white firefighters attempted to make him and other Black firefighters miss runs by not waking them up along with everyone else. [1987 April 25, Kim Westheimer, “A Black Gay Fireman's Story”, in Gay Community News, page 1:]
  • Let's go for a run in the car.
  • And I think of giving her a run in London for a change. [1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, chapter 30, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC:]
  • During his run from the police, he claimed to have a metaphysical experience which can only be described as “having passed through an abyss.” [2006, Tsirk Susej, The Demonic Bible, →ISBN, page 41:]
  • The bus on the Cherry Street run is always crowded.
  • You've never heard of the Millennium Falcon? It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs. [1977, Star Wars (film)]
  • Which run did you do today?
  • a good run; a run of fifty miles
  • a run to China
  • The data got lost, so I'll have to perform another run of the experiment.
  • This morning's run of the SHIPS statistical model gave Hurricane Priscilla a 74% chance of gaining at least 30 knots of intensity in 24 hours, reconfirmed by the HMON and GFS dynamical models.
  • This was my first successful run without losing any health.
  • That NPC bugged out and killed my run.
  • He can have the run of the house.
  • He set up a rabbit run.
  • It is impossible for detached papers[...] to have a general run, or long continuance, if they are not diversified[...]. [1715 June 4 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison, “The Free-holder: No. 45. Tuesday, May 25. [1715.]”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; […], volume IV, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], published 1721, →OCLC:]
  • I’m having a run of bad luck.
  • 1782 Frances Burney Cecilia
  • “ […] had had the preceding night an uncommon run of luck”.
  • He went to Las Vegas and spent all his money over a three-day run.
  • They who make their arrangements in the firſt run of miſadventure[…] put a ſeal on their calamities. [1796, Edmund Burke, “Letter I. On the Overtures of Peace.”, in Two Letters Addressed to a Member of the Present Parliament on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France, London: […] F[rancis] and C[harles] Rivington, […], published 20 October 1796, →OCLC, page 23:]
  • German wildcard Sabine Lisicki conquered her nerves to defeat France's Marion Bartoli and take her amazing Wimbledon run into the semi-finals. [2011 June 28, Piers Newbery, “Wimbledon 2011: Sabine Lisicki beats Marion Bartoli”, in BBC Sport:]
  • If our team can keep up their strong defense, expect them to make a run in this tournament.
  • Yesterday we did a run of 12,000 units.
  • The book’s initial press run will be 5,000 copies.
  • The run of the show lasted two weeks, and we sold out every night.
  • It is the last week of our French cinema run.
  • A canting, mawkish play [...] had an immense run. [1856 February, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC:]
  • And I'll tell ya, things aren't quite the same / When I'm rushing on my run. [1964, The Velvet Underground, Heroin:]
  • Frank Fixwell, a 25 year-old male, has been on a heroin "run" (daily use) for the past two years. [1975, Lloyd Y. Young, Mary Anne Koda-Kimble, Brian S. Katcher, Applied Therapeutics for Clinical Pharmacists:]
  • 1977, Richard P. Rettig, Manual J. Torres, Gerald R. Garrett, Manny: a criminal-addict's story, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) →ISBN
  • I was hooked on dope, and hooked bad, during this whole period, but I was also hooked behind robbery. When you're on a heroin run, you stay loaded so long as you can score.
  • This can develop quite quickly (over a matter of hours) during a cocaine run or when cocaine use becomes a daily habit. [2001, Robin J. Harman, Handbook of Pharmacy Health Education, Pharmaceutical Press, →ISBN, page 172:]
  • DA depletion leads to the crash that characteristically ends a cocaine run. [2010, Robert DuPont, The Selfish Brain: Learning from Addiction, Hazelden Publishing, →ISBN, page 158:]
  • The constant run of water from the faucet annoys me.
  • a run of must in wine-making
  • the first run of sap in a maple orchard
  • The military campaign near that creek was known as "The battle of Bull Run".
  • He broke into a run.
  • Financial insecurity led to a run on the banks, as customers feared for the security of their savings.
  • There was a run on Christmas presents.
  • He stood out from the usual run of applicants.
  • After trailing by as much as 12 points in the second half, Florida went on a 8-0 run to get back in the game. [2025 April 7, NCAA:]
  • I’m coming up next month to work for the summer and wanna know where I can get some run or any intel on indoor and outdoor courts. [2024 April 10, Reddit Juneau:]
  • I used to see homies getting some run in regularly at Pomeroy but it died down this summer for some reason...
  • dunno why.. them runs was fireeeeeee [2022 September 1, Reddit Burlington:]
  • … one of the greatest runs of all time.
  • Aaron Roberts added an insurance touchdown on a one-yard run. [2003, Jack Seibold, Spartan Sports Encyclopedia, page 592:]
  • Well, when you compare the cone type with the cross roller bit, you get a longer run, there is less tendency of the bit to go flat while running in various formations. It cleans itself better. [1832, Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court, page 21:]
  • I have a run in my stocking.
  • A camera pans the cocktail hour / Behind a blind of potted palms / And finds a lady in a Paris dress / With runs in her nylons [1975, Joni Mitchell, “The Boho Dance”, in The Hissing of Summer Lawns:]
  • I think they only have a weird run because their leg hurts.

Etymology

1. From Middle English runnen, rennen (“to run”), alteration (due to the past participle runne, runnen,
2. 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”).
3. 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”), Persian راندن (rândan, “to move, set in motion”). See also random. See: Old English Nouns 'rinnan', Old Norse Nouns 'rinna', Icelandic Nouns 'renna', German Nouns 'rennen', Danish Nouns 'rende', Swedish Nouns 'ränna'.

Verbs referencing "run"

German Nouns Run.