run lines
Example Sentences
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When my parents run lines with me, they push on intention—delivering dialogue with authenticity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 4, 2025
After I do that for about two hours, my husband will run lines with me doing all the voices of everybody else.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2025
He watched his colleague take up acting classes again, something she had left behind after high school, and helped her run lines.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 27, 2023
After rehearsals ended, Benko would run lines with her husband and musical collaborator, Jason Yeager, in their living room.
From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2022
Then you run lines, and pull and haul and heave, and exchange unpleasant remarks with the bridge-tender who is always willing to meet you more than half way in such repartee.
From A Collection of Stories by London, Jack
