What is "runs"

Usage examples of "runs".

Come life, come death, what care I, so that the blows fall fast and the blood runs red?

Whatever is combustible flashes into flame at its touch, lead runs like water, it softens iron, cracks and melts glass, and when it falls upon water, incontinently that explodes into steam.

So is the anonymous soldier who runs with a fistful of canteens, fills them with precious water, and totes them back to his comrades.

Or worse, he runs off to marry a daughter of her horse-breeding rival!

We realize that our treatment of you runs contrary to your ethical system.

I dream about going back to Earth and everybody runs away from me: Coughing and holding their noses.

Here, too, is brought, so the fable runs, all the waste stuff of the nation--everything that is subject to rot, and that can add to the foul stench that assails our nostrils.

To the left is the sea, and behind the hill runs the canal and road by which all traffic comes or goes to Ar-hap.

English vegetables, trees, and flowers flourished luxuriantly, even including several varieties of the apple, which, generally, runs to wood in a warm climate and obstinately refuses to fruit.

A glance from those bright eyes or a smile from those sweet lips, and while the red blood runs in the veins of youth women such as these will never lack subjects ready to do their biddings to the death.

In Woking the shops had closed when the tragedy happened, and a number of people, shop people and so forth, attracted by the stories they had heard, were walking over the Horsell Bridge and along the road between the hedges that runs out at last upon the common.

Something very like the war fever that occasionally runs through a civilised community had got into my blood, and in my heart I was not so very sorry that I had to return to Maybury that night.

A moderate incline runs towards the foot of Maybury Hill, and down this we clattered.

I fell helplessly, in full sight of the Martians, upon the broad, bare gravelly spit that runs down to mark the angle of the Wey and Thames.

At the same time four of their fighting machines, similarly armed with tubes, crossed the river, and two of them, black against the western sky, came into sight of myself and the curate as we hurried wearily and painfully along the road that runs northward out of Halliford.