hit-run

Definitions

Examples

• As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.

• Everybody is trapped in an elevator together and tempers run a little hot.

• Using standard methods, the cost of printing DNA could run upwards of a billion dollars or more, depending on the strand.

• The most recent issue contains detailed instructions for building car bombs, and the magazine frequently draws up hit-lists.

• Should lightning strike and Hillary Clinton forgoes a presidential run, Democrats have a nominee in waiting.

• Do not the widow's tears run down the cheek, and her cry against him that causeth them to fall?

• A few, very few, little dots had run back over that green patch—the others had passed down into the world of darkness.

• Many of us had been hit by the balls, but a bruise or a graze of the skin was the worst consequence that had ensued.

• But if what I told him were true, he was still at a loss how a kingdom could run out of its estate like a private person.

• The controlling leaders being out of gear the machine did not run smoothly: there was nothing but friction and tension.