run along
verb
ran along; run along; running along; runs along
: to go away : be on one's way : depart
Synonyms
- bail
- bail out
- begone
- book [slang]
- bug off
- bug out
- bugger off [British slang]
- buzz (off)
- clear off [chiefly British]
- clear out
- cut out
- depart
- dig out
- exit
- get
- get off
- go
- go off
- move
- pack (up or off)
- part
- peel off
- pike (out or off)
- pull out
- push off
- push on
- quit
- sally (forth)
- scarper [British]
- shove (off)
- step (along)
- take off
- vamoose
- walk out
Examples of run along in a Sentence
I'd love to stay longer, but I must be running along.
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Felicity Carter, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2024
Rather than construct a new building, the company will extensively remodel and modernize the aging warehouse complex that runs along about a block of Park Avenue roughly between Deerfield and Michael avenues.
—Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 18 Dec. 2024
The player also had his phone and earbuds case arranged around him, with the case on the felt and his phone on the rail that runs along the table’s edge.
—Ben Dowsett, WIRED, 10 Dec. 2024
Each time someone vaped or smoked, the researchers saw a significant decrease in resting blood flow velocity in the femoral artery, which runs along the thigh and supplies oxygenated blood to the entire lower body.
—Jen Christensen, CNN, 25 Nov. 2024
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“Run along.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/run%20along. Accessed 2 Jan. 2025.
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