How to Use run its course in a Sentence

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• By this time of the year, much of our spring garden effort has just about run its course.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 19 July 2024
• Succession, the last of the great antihero shows, has run its course.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 16 June 2024
• Typically, the virus will run its course in about two weeks.
  — Christin Perry, Parents, 19 Aug. 2023
• The title track is a punchy kiss-off to a relationship that’s run its course.
  — Lucas Villa, SPIN, 10 June 2024
• Political satire seems to have run its course, for the time being, at least.
  — Richard E. Vatz, Baltimore Sun, 9 Jan. 2024
• After the initial attack, whooping cough will need to run its course, which can take months.
  — Evan Forster, Parents, 17 June 2024
• If any or all of these seem like worthy grounds to end the friendship, then the friendship has probably run its course.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2023
• It's been a fun rivalry, but gotta wonder if Bengals-Chiefs has run its course.
  — Jason Williams, The Enquirer, 1 Jan. 2024
• To reduce waste, once an item has run its course with a customer, it can be brought to any GU store and placed in a donation bin.
  — Celia Shatzman, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
• Now, that fresh look looks to have run its course and the Lakers are popping up in trade rumors for another new look.
  — Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2024
• Even if the planning process reveals that a friendship has run its course, does the split have to be especially painful?
  — Martine Thompson, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2024
• Powell’s response was a classic dad move: Ignore the screaming toddler and let the tantrum run its course.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 8 Aug. 2024
• Audiences could safely assume the movies’ one-note joke — a children’s toy that swears like a grown-up! — had run its course.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 11 Jan. 2024
• But if the current litigation against him does not run its course before the election, so be it.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2023
• Asked about police abuses, Macron said justice should be allowed to run its course.
  — Time, 29 June 2023
• Asked about police abuses, Mr. Macron said justice should be allowed to run its course.
  — Sylvie Corbet and Alex Turnbull, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 June 2023
• The larger question is whether this Big 3 has simply run its course as an effective lead group.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• By the time the court has devised a remedy and the appeals process has run its course, the search business will likely look very different.
  — Scott Rosenberg, Axios, 16 Aug. 2024
• But by then, even many of those around Mr. Scott believed his candidacy had already run its course.
  — Maya King, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2023
• Mills agreed, saying that the relationship had simply run its course.
  — Glamour, 23 Feb. 2024
• The post–World War II economic boom had run its course, and unemployment was rising.
  — John A. Lawrence, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2020
• Simply set or schedule it through the iRobot Home app, then let the little gizmo run its course sucking up dust, dirt, and other debris.
  — Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 26 Dec. 2023
• To the relief of untold numbers of Swifties, her fling with Healy had run its course months earlier, and now rumors were beginning to swirl about her and Kelce.
  — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 15 Dec. 2023
• Gilligan had long wanted to write a crossover episode with Cops, and by S7, Carter figured the series had likely run its course, so why not take some creative chances?
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Sep. 2023
• So scientists have a rescue plan: load the inshore conchs into milk crates, ferry them to colonies in deep water, and let nature run its course.
  — Jenny Staletovich, Sun Sentinel, 15 July 2024
• The cutbacks suggest the tech industry is in the middle of a wrenching adjustment that has yet to run its course and could bring more pain to the boom-and-bust industry, experts warned.
  — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2024
• But the era of major platform acquisitions from the United States has probably run its course.
  — Ashley J. Tellis, Foreign Affairs, 1 May 2023
• The 45-minute episode concludes with the pair, clothed and holding each other in bed, acknowledging that their relationship had run its course.
  — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 July 2023
• Doctors say that rest, hydration, perhaps acetaminophen or ibuprofen for headache or fever — along with a big dose of patience — are all that’s needed, as the cold will run its course.
  — Maggie Scales, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2023
• Revenge is set in motion at the same time grief must run its course, with battle strategies and covert meetings intercut with gut-wrenching scenes mourning Rhaenyra’s son.
  — Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 16 June 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024