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Example sentences for "running from"

  • He was equally strenuous of work; indeed I have no clearer recollection of him than his way of running from play to work or work to play, so that there should be the least possible time between.

  • Every soul was on deck and in a moment they were massed together and running from side to side in measured time.

  • The third slope, running from north to south, is that of the land-strait between the Andes and the chain of Parime.

  • From the mouths of the Dragon the Llanos of Cumana, of Barcelona, and of Caracas or Venezuela,* follow, running from east to west.

  • The river of the Orinoco, in running from south to north, is crossed by a chain of granitic mountains.

  • The Glamorgan canal has also a branch (made in 1811) running from Abercynon to Aberdare.

  • It is the central fluvial artery of Brazil, running from south to north for a distance of about 1500 m.

  • The precincts are divided across the centre by a wall, running from N.

  • The structure of this plexus I was not able, any more than in Coronula, to make out thoroughly, but I traced quite distinctly a long nerve (i) running from it into what must be considered as the eye.

  • Ridges, more or less prominent, running from each of the six marginal teeth, extend towards the centre of the cup.

  • Finally, a third dike, running from Honfleur to Berville, would complete the system.

  • Cavendish d includes a coarse cleft on its floor, running from N.

  • Aristarchus, till it meets a second cleft (forming the upper part of the T) running from the S.

  • There is a long ridge on the floor, running from E.

  • Webb's furrow," running from a point a little N.

  • The Grand Trunk, running from Chicago to Boston by way of Montreal, is a good example of a differential line, and the New York Central is a good instance of a standard line.

  • Of the export trade the principal part, running from a fourth to a third, is with the United States.

  • The most important, and the most costly is the Isle of Wight Railway, running from Ryde to Ventnor, with its long tunnel near the latter place.

  • The Apure, the Meta, and the Orinoco, running from west to east, receive all the streams of the llanos, or the region of pasturage.

  • These were the small fry, however, running from ten to forty pounds, but even at these weights they demanded the best skill of the angler, inasmuch as they were hooked in the mouth, and only occasionally could one be landed.

  • While the men were preparing dinner and getting the seines and collecting outfit in readiness, I had some fine sport with jewfish, running from fifteen to forty pounds, on a ten-ounce rod.

  • Indeed, that pleasant summer seems as but yesterday, when Mrs. Baxter killed with her own rod six salmon, running from twenty to thirty pounds, and was not more than thirty minutes in bringing any of them to gaff.

  • From the farthest point it extends eastward as far as the eye can reach; near the banks of a large river, however, running from a northeast direction towards the southwest, prairie lands are to be seen.

  • The Atlas Mountains traverse the country in several parallel chains, running from southwest to northeast.

  • There is a fine highway, built at some elevation above the plain and shaded by acacia trees, running from Cairo to these pyramids, a distance of about eight miles.

  • In Quebec the Great Northern, running from Hawkesbury on the Ottawa to Quebec City, was absorbed in 1902, and the Quebec and Lake St John five years later.

  • The third completed road, the St Lawrence and Industry Village, was also built in Lower Canada, running from Lanoraie on the north bank of the St Lawrence twelve miles to the village of Industry, later Joliette.

  • Six years later the Canada Eastern, running from Gibson to Loggieville, was purchased.

  • This left three thousand and odd hundred in the mixed herd, running from yearlings to old range bulls.

  • There was always a difference in cattle prices, running from one to two dollars a head, between the northern and southern parts of the State.

  • In the rains this country is a grassy belt, running from west to east, along a deep and narrow watercourse, called Rhat Tug, or the Fiumara of Rhat, which flows eastward towards the ocean.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "running from" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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