Words similar to runneth
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.
The federal cup runneth over, in part, because the raging stock market has produced a gusher of capital gains tax revenues.
Droit du seigneur has been the custom for so long that the mind of man runneth not to the contrary.
Perhaps the writer was not serious, because he had a plural subject with a singular verb, runneth , in the relative clause.
OED2e offers a quotation dating from 1610: There runneth forth into the sea a certaine shelfe or slang, like unto an out-thrust tongue.