Example sentences for: runneth

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

  • your cauldron runneth over.

  • OED2e offers a quotation dating from 1610: There runneth forth into the sea a certaine shelfe or slang, like unto an out-thrust tongue.

  • customs that runneth not to the contrary.

  • Droit du seigneur has been the custom for so long that the mind of man runneth not to the contrary.

  • What “runneth not to the contrary” is memory, rather than custom.


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