How to Use run for it in a Sentence

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• Jones, then 23, made a run for it and managed to escape.
  — Stephanie Pagones, Fox News, 6 Oct. 2022
• That allowed Bear to slip his collar and make a run for it.
  — Nicholas Katzban, USA TODAY, 9 Dec. 2022
• Joe then chose to make a run for it, and Roald followed closely behind.
  — Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 10 Feb. 2023
• In the end, for those who decided to make a run for it, the only way out was through passageways that had become blinding: the stairwells.
  — New York Times, 8 July 2022
• Occasionally, someone would act up or try to make a run for it.
  — David Kortava, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
• Harlan will definitely want to smash the delete button if the Utes do ultimately make a run for it.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 10 Mar. 2023
• At Herzog and de Meuron’s 56 Leonard, the upper stories appear to be making a run for it, each one shooting off in a different direction.
  — Curbed, 14 Dec. 2022
• Several witnesses were trying to catch Duke, but the scared pup decided to make a run for it instead and jumped off the overpass onto Dickinson Avenue.
  — Rebecca Hennes, Houston Chronicle, 4 Sep. 2020
• In the sketch, a car shaped like a hot dog crashes into a store, and a man dressed as a hot dog does his best to distract a gathering crowd and deflect responsibility for the crash, before making a run for it when policemen try to apprehend him.
  — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 20 May 2022
• Advertisement Zac Steele, Troup County’s emergency management director, said the storm damaged the enclosures, allowing the tigers an opportunity to make a run for it.
  — Leo Sands, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 23 Sep 2024