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n. (alternative spelling of runoff English)
Usage examples of "run-off".
She passed the old railway bridge which crossed the run-off: it was pretty in summer, with loosestrife and nettles and long grass.
Sinking down upon the stone lip of a big through fed by the run-off of the public pump, she sat as if petrified, thinking of nothing at all.
They drove down the street past the last house and the last of the corrals and mud pens and crossed a shallow ford where the slow water shone like oil in its colors and mended itself behind them before the run-off from the trucktires had even finished draining back.
He cautiously checked the corner of the hangar, but there wasn't anyone in the dead space between the two, just a slight channel for water run-off and a bunch of litter.
He had kept ahead in all the earlier run-offs for the discus throw.
The very violence of the run-off would conceal the little vehicle and smother the fan's noise signature.
Most are unbearably dull, yakking day and night about waste nutrients in the run-off fluid or overcooking or the endless other bits of job-related trivia that compose their lives, but washers are an exception.
Emancipationists didn’t fare well south of the Hio, and still less the kind of Emancipationist who helped run-off bucks and ewes and pickaninnies get north to French country up in Canada.
Emancipationists didn't fare well south of the Hio, and still less the kind of Emancipationist who helped run-off bucks and ewes and pickaninnies get north to French country up in Canada.
One sniff and I decided that it was the run-off from a sulphur spring.