Example sentences for: ran

How can you use “ran” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • On CNN's Late Edition , Donald Trump says he would personally spend $100 million if he ran for president (in addition to spending the Reform Party's more than $12 million in federal funds).

  • Earlier this week, the Pakistani paper Dawn ran an editorial about reports that Pakistani poppy growers are planning to recultivate opium on a bigger scale because they haven't received promised compensation for switching to other crops.

  • Ralph Neas, who for many years ran the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, always identified himself as a Republican; he dropped the pretense only when he ran for the House last fall as a Democrat in liberal Montgomery County, Md., losing to Connie Morella (the most liberal Republican in Congress).

  • Akin to dozy is the term wany (or waney ), used to describe a board as cut at the sawmill, imperfect because it ran into bark of the log from which it was cut.

  • The Telegraph also ran an article by Richard Perle, a former U.S. assistant secretary of defense, attacking British, French, and German leaders for trying to influence the Senate vote through an article in the New York Times . "Why didn't the Senate congratulate its friends [Blair, Chirac, and Schröder] on their wise and timely counsel?"


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