How to Use runny in a Sentence

runny

adjective

• My eyes felt itchy and runny.
• The scrambled eggs are runny.
• The pudding is runnier than I like it.
• The flu comes with high fevers, body aches, headaches, cough and a runny nose.
  — Julie Washington, cleveland, 2 Nov. 2022
• Your—or your child—have a runny nose, fever, and cough.
  — Byerin Prater, Fortune Well, 3 Mar. 2023
• The sugary filling will be soft and runny until the bars have a chance to cool.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 30 Oct. 2023
• Symptoms include a high fever, cough, runny nose and a rash all over the body.
  — Nicholas Rice, Peoplemag, 24 Feb. 2024
• If the filling is too warm and runny, chill it for a bit and whip filling again.
  — Carol Deptolla, Journal Sentinel, 27 July 2022
• Symptoms can include a high fever, cough, runny nose and a rash all over the body.
  — Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 11 Jan. 2024
• The ones that come after days of misery for your child: the fever, the cough, the runny nose, and trouble breathing.
  — Emily Nadal, Parents, 20 July 2023
• The most common symptoms of the Delta variant were headache, sore throat, runny nose, and fever.
  — Team Verywell Health, Verywell Health, 28 Apr. 2023
• Belly rubs and cuddles bring red eyes and a runny nose.
  — Christiane Gelitz, Scientific American, 4 May 2023
• When it’s boiled, there’s no way to tell if the egg is runny or set, with a yolk that’s smooth, fudgy, or the texture of a rubber boot.
  — Ruby Tandoh, Bon Appétit, 13 July 2022
• Crack in 4 of the eggs and cook undisturbed until whites are set but yolks are still runny, 4 to 5 minutes.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2022
• Many locals believe it's best topped with a fried egg with a runny yolk.
  — Terry Ward, CNN, 27 Oct. 2022
• His symptoms at the time were said to have included a runny nose, cough, sore throat, a slight fever and body aches.
  — Bytal Axelrod, ABC News, 2 Aug. 2022
• But this time of year doesn’t have to leave parents bracing for runny noses and calling out sick to tend to a child with a cold.
  — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 19 Aug. 2022
• In a memo, Kevin O’Connor, Biden’s physician, wrote that the president has a runny nose and is fatigued.
  — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 23 July 2022
• Some dogs have died from the illness, which starts with causes a cough that can last for weeks, runny eyes and sneezing.
  — Linda Carroll, NBC News, 22 Nov. 2023
• Symptoms of hay fever include a runny or stuffed nose, itchy eyes, and skin, and sneezing.
  — Devika Rao, The Week, 27 Apr. 2023
• One day Lukes was a bit under the weather, sniffling and sneezing with a runny nose.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Nov. 2022
• Around the same time, his congestion and runny nose worsened.
  — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 10 Jan. 2024
• Like the common cold, EV-D68 can cause a runny nose, sneezing, body aches or muscle aches.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 13 Sep. 2022
• Brothy toast needs walls to hem in all of its runny goodness, a little hug around the food that keeps it together.
  — Kendra Vaculin, Bon Appétit, 10 May 2022
• Symptoms may include fever, cough, runny nose, watery eyes and a rash of red spots.
  — Amanda Musa, CNN, 27 Feb. 2024
• Roughly a day after the fever sets in come the three C’s of measles: cough, conjunctivitis (pink eye) and coryza (a runny nose).
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 28 Feb. 2024
• His symptoms — runny nose, sore throat and fever — resurfaced, too.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 26 July 2022
• Just one pill will relieve all day from sneezing, runny nose, itchy, watery eyes, and itching of the nose and throat.
  — Nora Colomer, Fox News, 18 Mar. 2024
• Mild symptoms include a runny nose, sneezing, a cough and aches.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2022
• Place an egg yolk in each prepared muffin cup and bake for 5 to 7 minutes, until the white rims around the yolks are set but the yolks are still runny.
  — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024