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Example sentences for: runoff

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So we dragged each pair through the gutter (which was still full of street runoff from a rainstorm earlier in the day).
The New York Times played up Duke's showing, saying he "fell just short" of making the runoff and suggesting that he would have made it if a rival hadn't cut into his vote.
Fob James Jr. fell just shy of the 50 percent needed to avoid a runoff in the Republican primary for governor.
Coverage of Alfonso Portillo's landslide victory in Sunday's runoff to Guatemala's general election seldom failed to mention the positive impact of Portillo's confession earlier this year that in 1982 he killed two rivals for the deanship of the Mexican law school where he was teaching.
The top two finishers, who got 25 percent and 22 percent, respectively, will compete in a runoff.