running after
Example Sentences
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Inflation has heated up two months running after the conflict in the Middle East spiked crude oil prices, though for now remains inside the 1% to 3% window the Bank of Canada aims to maintain.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
With Rangers now arithmetically out of the running after three consecutive losses, it is down to Hearts and defending champions Celtic.
From BBC • May 12, 2026
Running only 76 minutes, the movie is a veristic and voluble delight, an exercise in eavesdropping on a pair of smart, funny people who wear posterity—there’s a tape recorder running, after all—with wry lightness.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025
Its three-time presidential candidate Marine Le Pen is barred from running after being convicted in a corruption case, but her 30-year-old lieutenant Bardella could be a candidate instead.
From Barron's • Oct. 11, 2025
I was returning to the temple one evening, hurrying so that I should be in good time for the meal, when I heard someone running after me, shouting something I could not understand.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
