Definition of "run across" []

• To cross by running. (verb)
• To find or discover by chance. (verb)

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• "As Paul Goldberger, the architecture critic of the New Yorker, put it at the time, “Boldness has been pretty much out of fashion in city-planning circles for a while, especially in lower Manhattan, where it is associated not only with projects like the World Trade Center but with unrealized schemes like the expressway Robert Moses wanted to run across downtown, which would have destroyed SoHo.”"
• "Then a short, flat run across the floor of Shady Valley, a last splurge of hills, and then Sullivan County, civilization, as 421 took her back to Bristol, to her apartment, to a nice glass of wine."
• "“Feels good?” he asked throatily, watching the emotions run across my face as he pushed his fingers deeper into me."