Words similar to runner

Example sentences for: runner

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

The community's understanding of the rule that a runner must always touch the base to which he is forced was that this rule didn't apply when a game was won in the ninth inning.
This is true in the trivial case in which, say, antibiotics cure a runner's fever before the big race, but it may also be true in a more significant way.
"The 'Important Numbers' section in Michael Eisner's Day Runner."
Kenyan runner Joseph Chebet won the Boston Marathon . The heartwarming spin: He finally won the race after finishing second in his last three marathons.
I imagine that he was powerfully moved by Daryl Hannah's punky, kick-boxing android in Blade Runner as well as her lissome, childlike mermaid in Splash ; he has created a role for the Ukrainian-born model Jovovich, who has an urchin's face atop a willowy body, that's a strange fusion of both.