run off
Example Sentences
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Freya Kemp hit the winning run off Bree Illing as got England over the line with 37 balls, to spare to wrap up their seventh successive T20 bilateral series victory against the White Ferns.
From BBC • May 25, 2026
The team uses a police van to head to Pelham Street, where the children run off as officers jump out to chase them.
From BBC • May 7, 2026
Successive rounds of bond-buying during the financial crisis and the Covid pandemic pushed it to a peak near $9 trillion before the Fed began letting some holdings run off.
From Barron's • May 6, 2026
Then Murphy hit a home run off Pence’s replacement, Thomas Padilla, to tie the score.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026
It belonged to my brother Shawn, who’d quarreled with my father at seventeen and run off to work odd jobs, mostly trucking and welding.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
