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Definition of "run over" []

  • To exceed the allotted time. (verb)
  • To cross by running (verb)
  • To drive over, causing injury or death. (verb)
  • To briefly describe (verb)
  • To practice quickly, briefly. (verb)

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Use "run over" in a sentence
  • "Some farmers were busy winnowing the crop on the road, coning off one side of it for a fifty-yard stretch with an infant sat down at either end, presumably calculating that, although drivers would certainly run over cones, they might just think twice about children."
  • "John turns to me and knocks the can of pineapple slices out of my hand, then leads me and Tom right past the Patagonians, who stare at us with little interest, we are among the starving, and while a few hands come out to run over our bodies, their searches are cursory and, with nothing to our names, we are allowed to pass."
  • "I wave to her and run over to the Corner Cupboard to get some juice, an orange for me, and for my mom a cranberry."
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