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:

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.
At night underground I imagine him nearby somewhere, long limbs caught quickfrozen in a runner's pose, fingers reaching, hard as marble-- I am poured out, O Lord, poured out like water --all night I dream him in that posture of longing, held and stilled beneath the motion and the industry, the unimaginable weight of our living world.
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.
Six feet five and thin, Bin Ladin appeared to be ungainly but was in fact quite athletic, skilled as a horseman, runner, climber, and soccer player.
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.