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Definition of "to run into" []

  • (verb-intransitive)
  • To meet, by chance. (verb-intransitive)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Use "to run into" in a sentence
  • "In the locker room later, Yankee manager Ralph Houk reminded his players that it was better to run into the catcher than to be tripped, fall over, and get tagged out."
  • "Once again I am sixteen and hoping the door will open and I may just happen to run into Warren Clark, the twenty-five year old whom I secretly adore."
  • "In the words of Colin Powell, the defense secretarys military assistant in the early 1980s, Weinbergers general approach was all sails up, full speed ahead, where is the brick wallI wish to run into it now, sir!"