Example sentences for: runoff

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

  • Brown, the city's first black mayor, won 65 percent of the vote in a runoff election with fellow Democrat City Supervisor Tom Ammiano.

  • The top two finishers, who got 25 percent and 22 percent, respectively, will compete in a runoff.

  • Ammiano, who would have been the city's first openly gay mayor, forced the runoff after launching a write-in campaign just three weeks before the November election.

  • Yet, the total catch of food fish continues to grow, as do concerns about nutrient runoff and estuary pollution resulting from aquaculture.

  • Fertilizer runoff from the Mississippi River has killed sea life over an area the size of New Jersey in the Gulf of Mexico, says an article . Farmers are resisting calls to curtail fertilizer use.


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