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Sentences ending with ran

I wish you were in--" In his rage he snatched the ladder out of the shaft and ran. [5]
Behind Lady Haldwell's visit curiosity chiefly ran. [11]
He gathered himself up and ran. [11]
I heard that their High Mightinesses had given Paul Jones the use of the Texel fort for his wounded and his prisoners, and thither I ran. [9]
We talked about the different courses through which life ran. [14]
Recriminations, executions, murders--so the chronicles ran. [9]
Away to the south, up a vast basin of forest, there was a notch in the horizon and an opening in the line of woods, where the road ran. [4]
The sheet was shortened, and the Folly obediently headed westward against the swell, flinging rainbows from her bows as she ran. [9]
They broke and ran. [11]
Pierre stopped, being pressed against the side of the cutting in which the road ran. [2]

Short sentences using ran

Liberty ran riot within her. [9]
The talk ran upon mountains. [6]
She ran rapidly toward him. [2]
He ran up to them. [2]
Pierre ran down the slope. [2]
I ran into the house. [11]
And so they ran on. [4]
That's why I ran away. [9]
She started, and ran aground! [5]
The coffee ran out. [5]

Sentences containing ran two or more times

In the dense wavering smoke some of the French threw down their arms and ran out of the bushes to meet the Cossacks, while others ran down the hill toward the pond. [2]
When her hair was done, Natasha, in her short petticoat from under which her dancing shoes showed, and in her mother's dressing jacket, ran up to Sonya, scrutinized her, and then ran to her mother. [2]
Then he started to run, leading Jane's horse, and he ran, and trotted, and walked, and ran again. [13]
One post ran to meet another, and one messenger ran to meet another; and it was even reported--though on doubtful authority--after the rally in his town the Honourable Jacob Botcher had made the remark that, under certain conditions, he might become a reformer. [9]
At first while they were still moving along the Kaluga road, Napoleon's armies made their presence known, but later when they reached the Smolensk road they ran holding the clapper of their bell tight--and often thinking they were escaping ran right into the Russians. [2]
It seemed as if those smoke clouds sometimes ran and sometimes stood still while woods, fields, and glittering bayonets ran past them. [2]
Scarcely had the door of his room closed behind him, when little Bessie ran up to Maria, threw her arms around her and asked: "Mother, isn't Junker Georg the tall captain with the blue feather, who ran down-stairs so fast to meet you? [10]
With a last desperate effort Dolokhov pushed the porter aside, and when Anatole ran back seized him by the arm, pulled him through the wicket, and ran back with him to the troyka. [2]
As they stood close together gazing at the new purchase Janet was uncomfortably aware of drops that ran a little way in the furrows of Hannah's cheeks, stopped, and ran on again. [9]
He ran the city even as Mr. Sherrill ran his department store; you paid your price. [9]

More example sentences with the word ran in them

As the bold young woman tapped Gombert lightly on the arm and, with fresh words of invitation, pointed toward the counter, a shiver ran through Barbara's limbs. [10]
He sprang towards you over Faddo's body, even as you threw the lantern, and, catching his arm, you ran with him towards the dyke. [11]
I have wanted you ever since that night long ago when I slipped out of your bed and ran away. [9]
One desperate, frightened yell from the first French soldier who saw the Cossacks, and all who were in the camp, undressed and only just waking up, ran off in all directions, abandoning cannons, muskets, and horses. [2]
This book is written of a time when feeling ran high. [9]
It had been written just after Georg's return the day before, and ran as follows: "Joyously they march along, Lights are flashing through the panes, In the streets a busy throng Curiosity enchains. [10]
With one frantic wrench he freed himself, and ran down Locust Street. [9]
Hardly were the words spoken, when Dorothy ran to my bedside, and seizing my hand, faced him. [9]
Love was the word that rang out, as one calling through the garden, and her thoughts ran molten. [9]
They ran forward with woe and dismay in their faces, exclaiming-- "Oh, poor Tom, poor lad! [5]
As he staggered with the chair she impulsively ran to aid him. [11]
Its rear communicated with the bastille by a drawbridge, under which ran a swift and deep strip of the Loire. [5]
She went in with rapid steps, pausing at the door for an instant as if struggling with herself, and then ran to her mother. [2]
The schoolhouse stood with pines about Upon the hill, and ever A creek, where hid the speckled trout, Ran past it to the river. [11]
His feet light with moccasins, he even ran a distance, enjoying the glow from a fast-beating pulse. [11]
Then he sprang with long leaps from the ruined tower to the barren plain at his feet, and ran southward as fleetly as if he were escaping from captivity a second time. [10]
Hysteric laughter, mingled with hoarse cries, ran over the House, but the Honorable Heth Sutton did not even smile. [9]
The twenty-four sharpshooters with discharged muskets, standing in the center of the circle, ran back to their places as the companies passed by. [2]
Pierre gazed now with dazed eyes at these sharpshooters who ran in couples out of the circle. [2]
And then Virginia, with a little curtsey to both of them, ran off to dress for the party. [9]
Then, as if with a great effort, and after the manner of one who has learned a part, he went on: "As the French ran away mad, paw of one on tail of other, they found him trying to drag himself along. [11]
He ran forward with a cry, and knelt beside the wounded man. [11]
Turning, she ran with a cry as of hungry love to the little bed. [11]
Her heart beating wildly, she ran to the windows of the drawing-room and peered through the lilacs. [9]
I was a wild lad" (I repeat his exact words), "and I ran up a bill in Charlestown that would have filled a folio volume. [9]
We ran that whole battery of nine blasts in a row, and it was certainly one of the most exciting and uncomfortable weeks I ever spent, either aship or ashore. [5]
The little man who worried Ibrahim urged him the way his private inclinations ran, but he was obdurate: duty must be done. [11]
Those around me who were sufficiently nimble began to run towards the noise, and I ran after them. [9]
Ordering the sailors who were preparing to accompany him to remain on shore, he stretched the sail with a practised hand, and ran out towards the mouth of the harbour. [10]
That man's name who ran that line of stages--well, I declare that name is gone. [5]
The tall backwoodsman who had shot him waded across the stream, and in the twinkling of an eye seized the scalp-lock and ran it round with his knife, holding up the bleeding trophy with a shout. [9]
The long hall, which ran from street to street, was packed, the people surging backward and forward, and falling roughly against the mahogany pieces; and apologizing, and scolding, and swearing all in a breath. [9]
As, for instance, when a fault or sin showed on the surface of a man, whether, if you dug down, you would find that it ran back and into the original organic bunch of original sin within the man. [4]
Down from the west, through hills that crowded on either side to divert it from its course, ran the sparkling Deerfield, from among the springs and trout streams of the Hoosac, merrily going on to the great Connecticut. [4]
At last they were still, her eyelids fell, her hands dropped the crucifix, a slight shiver ran through her limbs, which then relaxed, and she opened her mouth as though to draw a deeper breath. [10]
Abby and I were shopping and we ran into Hugh and Georgie yesterday at Sherry's, and we've been together ever since. [9]
Two of them were expert swimmers and were able to catch the stern of another canoe as it ran by, and reached safe water, bruised but alive. [11]
Some militiamen who were entering the battery ran back. [2]
He certainly seemed well pleased with himself, and more than once, as he sat alone, he laughed outright, and once he said aloud, as his fingers ran up and down a schedule--not a man-o'-war's schedule--laughing softly: "Poor old Farquhar, if he could see me now! [11]
She did not weep passionately, but the big salt drops welled slowly from her eyes and ran down her young cheeks, as drop after drop of shining sap flows down the trunk of a wounded birch-tree. [10]
But of course we were dead tired, and slept like policemen; so when we awoke in the morning and ran to the window it was already too late, because it was half past eleven. [5]
One evening, as we drew to the camp-fire, a deer broke from the woods and ran straight through the little circle we were making, and disappeared in the bushes by the riverside. [11]
In the morning we both awoke and leaped out of bed at the same instant and ran and stripped aside the window-curtains; but we suffered a bitter disappointment again: it was already half past three in the afternoon. [5]
She had the way of one in authority, and Mr. Sherman himself ran to open the door of his only closed carriage, and the driver galloped off with her all the way to the Brampton House. [9]
He wrung the water out of his clothes, and ran softly up the shore. [11]
And then there was the dairy, with the fawn-coloured cows and calves; and the hillside pastures that ran down to the river, and the farm lands where the stubbled grain was yellowing. [9]
A general who was standing by the guns shouted some words of command to the officer, and the latter ran back again with his men. [2]
Even as he was speaking a thrill of admiration ran through Cynthia, piercing her sorrow. [9]
No doubt he was right; for as the tug hurried on, Tarboe ran to Joan, hugged her like a bear, and roared till he ached. [11]
The petroleum story was not told to me; he told it to Joe Twichell, who ran across him by accident on a sea voyage where I think the two were the only passengers. [5]
Through that door was heard a noise of things being moved about, and at last Anna Mikhaylovna, still with the same expression, pale but resolute in the discharge of duty, ran out and touching Pierre lightly on the arm said: "The divine mercy is inexhaustible! [2]
The editorial management was going to be kept in the background, as far as the public was concerned; the public was to suppose that the thing ran itself. [8]
The poor mother was doubly anxious because he seemed so unconscious of the risk he ran up there and looked about him even more boldly and self-reliantly than usual. [10]
When the animal was at length ready to go, Davie took him by the bridle, ran by his side, coaxed him into a gallop, and then, leaping in behind, lashed him into a run, which had little respite for ten miles, uphill or down. [4]
So, when I walked into the room, and Bridget, turning back, closed the door and left me alone with its tenant, I do believe you could have grated a nutmeg on my skin, such a "goose-flesh" shiver ran over it. [6]
She and her virgins ran to these flames, while Horus led the youths to battle against Typhon on the opposite shore. [10]
Suddenly he dropped Virginia's hand and ran westward down the hill. [9]
In the marble vestibule of the Corn National Bank I ran into Tallant, holding his brown straw hat in his hand and looking a little more moth-eaten than usual. [9]
It would be very tiresome staying here, and so four of us ran the quarantine blockade and spent seven delightful days in Seville, Cordova, Cadiz, and wandering through the pleasant rural scenery of Andalusia, the garden of Old Spain. [5]
Bounding swiftly away, Venters fled around the corner, across the street, and, leaping a hedge, he ran through yard, orchard, and garden to the sage. [13]
He ran into Vandewaters's camp that evening. [11]
Leaving all the vague, waste, endless spaces of the washing desert, the ocean-steamer and the fishing-smack sail straight towards each other as if they ran in grooves ploughed for them in the waters from the beginning of creation! [6]
His eye ran us over sharply, and his head nodded, as we marched past him; and once I heard him say, 'If they had had but ten years each on their heads, my Prince! [11]
Sometimes we ran upon them in the water, where they looked like the rough-bark pine logs from the North, and Nick would have a shot at them. [9]
The sergeant ran up to the officer and in a frightened whisper informed him (as a butler at dinner informs his master that there is no more of some wine asked for) that there were no more charges. [2]
He slowly went up to the chest in which his tools and instruments lay, and bitter tears ran down his cheeks, as he took his heaviest hammer in his hand. [10]
Bucklaw's tiger ran up to stroke his chin with the old grotesque gesture. [11]
And Weld ran up to me, and though I was a good piece of a lad, swung me lightly onto his shoulder. [9]
Lavrushka, however, ran up to Karp and seized him by the arms from behind. [2]
Several officers ran up to him. [2]
A bay ran up the two stories, and at the left were two narrow doorways, one for each flat. [9]
He was coming up the narrow stairs, so she ran out to meet him, blushing as though she were doing something wrong. [10]
The sketch ran up the left side of the sheet and stretched across it. [8]
Mr. Crewe made up his mind he would encircle Fairview every day until he ran across her. [9]
Her eyes ran up and down his figure, then met his curiously. [11]
It was not until near the end of the passage that we ran out of the storm. [9]
It seemed to unravel that puz--" He landed in the middle of the floor at a bound, without finishing the sentence, and ran and turned up his light and seized his "records. [5]
Jethro Bass, rugged, uncouth, in rawhide boots and swallowtail and coonskin cap, came down from the porch to welcome her, and she ran toward him with an eagerness that started the painter to wondering afresh over the contrasts of life. [9]
An instant later two figures ran past her. [11]
But all has turned out well--only that Argutis, whom every one treats as if our old Macedonian blood ran in his veins, was sent yesterday by Melissa with finer flowers for Caracalla's cenotaph than for her own mother's tomb--May her new-fangled god forgive her! [10]
The horses walked, trotted, galloped, ran, to fall again to walk. [13]
Angel ran quickly towards the door, then stopped short. [11]
As Rosalie ran towards the crowd she turned a wistful glance to the tailor-shop. [11]
As she ran towards him, with sudden impulse, his arms spread out and he caught her to his breast. [11]
Several soldiers ran toward the cart from different sides: some beat the carriage horses on their heads, turning them aside, others fought among themselves, and Pierre saw that one German was badly wounded on the head by a sword. [2]
Whenever his hand touched hers a thrill ran through his veins. [10]
For answer she tore herself away, and ran through the hall to the broad porch in front. [9]
Sure enough, he took it up and ran his eye along down to the grand total. [5]
She ran and took his arm to help him down. [11]
I ran and took her in my arms, and lavished caresses upon her and said, beseechingly: "Speak, darling, speak! [5]
It was only too natural that his strength should fail him, so, without feeling at all alarmed but only very pitiful and anxious to help, she ran back to a fruit-stall which they had passed at the entrance to the garden from the street. [10]
We stood awhile together to see how jocund day ran hither and thither along the mountain-tops, until the light was all abroad, and then silently turned downward, as one goes from a mount of devotion. [4]
He ran back to where she stood, and held out his hand. [11]
She is well--even to wantonness, since--wishing to prove the swiftness of her horses--she ran over the daughter of the paraschites Pinem. [10]
I was about to upbraid him for his rude and discourteous manners when we heard, outside, a loud outcry, and Ann ran in to fetch me. [10]
The Indians ran to their lodges for spears and hatchets, though the weapons of many were within the Fort, and soon they were about the place, shouting in impotent rage. [11]
They both ran to the window and saw dashing down the avenue--a picture out of Fenimore Cooper; a saddleless horse with a rider whose fingers merely touched the bridle, riding as on a journey of life and death. [11]
She ran forward to the wall and threw up her hands against it. [11]
I must return to the scene where I found myself when the suggestion of the broken circle ran away with my imagination. [6]
Pierre ran up to the post. [2]

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