Have a tendency or disposition to do or be something

Usage examples of running.

I just sat back on my heels and let her tongue lash over me, until at last it dawned on me that the old abo must have gone running to her and she thought we were responsible for scaring him out of what wits he had.

Here he reared a continuous rampart with a ditch in front of it, fair-sized forts, probably a dozen in number, built either close behind it or actually abutting on it, and a connecting road running from end to end.

Lord knew she ached to, with her insides abuzz and his warmth running up her side.

Kelly was busy running an acceleration recompute when the update for this particular maneuver came in, so I took over the computer and input the change.

I now had access to one computer, which turned out to be running an older version of the UNIX operating system.

So he ran a program to see if he could connect to any of the services running on that computer, and found an open port with a Telnet service running, which allows one computer to connect remotely to another computer and access it as if directly connected using a dumb terminal.

In the left-hand column is a list of diseases beginning with acidosis and running through neurosis and on to ulcers, and in the right-hand column are lists of wines that will remedy the diseases on the left.

I told her to keep quiet, but, being anxious not to frighten her, I dared not acquaint her with the danger we were running.

Playboys, not running in soccer-sprawled acreage near the old airport.

Worthy Adjudicator, that when we were last running our quantum-computing experiment, a .

He could hear the sound of portable generators running, and there were also lights on in the admin building, across the tracks from where he was parked.

Halott was gone, the tiger returned and chuffed once more and I followed it down a set of stairs, down through a laboratory of some kind, and on down into dank basements below, with water adrip, slime on the walls, and rats running everywhere.

This means that your advertisement will appear anywhere between the covers as opposed to running in a specific section or a more prominent position.

Typically, this requires running the same advertisement in different markets to determine the strength of the market and the message.

Combination rate-a discounted rate paid by an advertiser who commits to running space in various publications owned and operated by the same company.