run for it

Example Sentences

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Instead of making a run for it, he resolves to hunker down until the heat is off.

From The Wall Street Journal

Hours after Mr Smith and the FBI's surveillance specialists went off shift, he said Mr San Diego made a run for it with detectives in pursuit.

From BBC

Over the years, pursuit suspects have tried to evade police by driving into parking garages or into Los Angeles International Airport, where there are flight restrictions for news choppers, or trying to run for it.

From Los Angeles Times

“We don’t get enough water. They put out a little case of water, and everyone has to run for it,” the girl said in testimony related to conditions in immigrant detention.

From Salon

It was an homage to Joe Manchin, a man who left the Democratic Party and did not win when his senate seat last came up reelection—so poor was his polling that he declined to even run for it.

From Slate