How to Use run along in a Sentence

run along

verb
  • I'd love to stay longer, but I must be running along.
  • The tracks run along the western edge of the fairgrounds.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2022
  • The Bermuda [grass] and a few of the holes have the water running along the sides.
    Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Five-and-a-half miles of their ranch run along the border wall.
    Longreads, 23 Feb. 2024
  • But the tracks run along the I-95 corridor and the train stops at 19 stations.
    Omar Rodríguez Ortiz, Miami Herald, 7 May 2024
  • The huge deck that runs along the back of the house was built around a couple of trees that provide shade.
    Mark David, Robb Report, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Landlubbers can hike the 1.5-mile trail running along the edge of the lake.
    Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 10 May 2024
  • His wrists were tied to a pipe running along the ceiling.
    James Verini Paolo Pellegrin, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2023
  • In the Adirondacks, parts of the river are too shallow to swim, so Pugh ran along the banks.
    Michael Hill, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2023
  • This one gets vinyl stripes that run along the side of the power hump on the hood and then along the doors and rear fenders.
    Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes, 12 Nov. 2021
  • You will be spit out of the park (on a downhill) to run along Central Park South.
    Talya Minsberg, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The top and sides of the screen are nearly bezel-free, with a narrow black band running along the edge.
    PCMAG, 24 July 2024
  • Inside, a bar ran along one end of the room and leather benches along the other.
    Chabeli Carrazana, Them, 25 July 2024
  • During that time, there is a free shuttle bus that runs along the road.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 20 Mar. 2024
  • That trail would run along the railroad tracks just east of Lincoln Creek.
    Chelsey Lewis, Journal Sentinel, 7 Oct. 2022
  • These cracks are sometimes 10 feet wide and 20 feet deep and can run along the surface for miles.
    Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 19 Oct. 2022
  • French doors run along the wall in the first living area and provide access to the patio.
    Dallas News, 3 June 2022
  • But the traits and symptoms of psychopathy run along scales that range from weak to strong.
    David Adam, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Aug. 2023
  • One end of the beach to the other is about three miles, and a free trolley shuttle runs along the island from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.
    Valeriya Safronova, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Use eye hooks to attach the support wires to the wooden posts or thread the wires into the holes that run along the length of the T-posts.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 July 2024
  • Hampton then runs along the outside wall of the apartment complex and down a flight of stairs.
    Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The city's sandy beaches run along South Beach Boulevard.
    Zoe Denenberg, Southern Living, 24 July 2023
  • The core rotation will also fire up your obliques, the muscles that run along the sides of your trunk.
    Megan Falk, Women's Health, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Tren a las Nubes runs along the high Andes desert of Argentina.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 14 June 2024
  • Most of the caimans sold in stores were spectacled caimans — a species so named for the glasses-like ridge that runs along their snouts.
    Freda Kreier, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2023
  • In San Clemente, a seven-mile stretch of the track runs along the shrinking beach below crumbling bluffs.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 May 2024
  • Then, beneath those gates, two conveyor belts run along the long axis of the ship.
    Rob Verger, Popular Science, 1 Mar. 2021
  • The car’s tracks had run along a road’s shoulder and rocky berm before veering farther away from the paved road.
    Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 6 July 2023
  • But his fine features are muddled by the burn scar that runs along the base of his neck, just above the stiff collar of his uniform.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Plants sprouted in the facade’s cracks, exposed wires ran along its edges, and its two-tone paint peeled like bark.
    Asia London Palomba, Travel + Leisure, 12 Oct. 2024

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