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View synonyms for run across

run across

verb

  1. intr, preposition to meet unexpectedly; encounter by chance
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

I have been doing H for nine years on and off and have never run across this forum until now.

The car comes under the overpass, we boom up, the car pulls in, the train pulls, then run across to the train.

I've also seen a mother run across a room to prevent her child from signing to another deaf child.

Where would a justice be more likely than in Israel to run across an arguable precept.

It's the same as thinking every person I run across knows what I ate for breakfast or the color of my underwear.

If ships sail over the sea as fast as railways run across the land; if Helles is nearer Woolwich than Calais; then he is right.

Surely nothing can be more ungraceful than to see a lady shuffle and run across a street.

So I took my gun and slipped off towards where I had run across that camp fire, stopping every minute or two to listen.

I wish I could run across and see you, but it will be hard for me to get a fortnight just now like your cousin Massereene.

Anyways, it was plenty good enough for me; and wherever I run across it, it can have all of my custom every time.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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