runner - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • peg: Climb the wall just right of the thin crack past a peg runner.
  • finish: Despite not losing a game in the group stages Furley Park finished runners up in their group.
  • beat: He scored 14pts to beat runner up Eric Broadbelt ( 12 ) and third was Vic Harding ( 12 ).
  • declare: Place market terms are shown below and are based on declared runners and not actual runners.

Adjective modifier

  • Kenyan: The Kenyan runners acknowledged Mottram's effort by all rushing to console him and invite him to share a lap of honor.
  • long-distance: Mr Zanelli lives and works as a private financial advisor in his hometown and is an inveterate long-distance runner.
  • fell: Now I know what they say about these fell runners is true.
  • cross-country: Already a Blues cross-country runner, Claire will doubtless be a key player in this summer ' s Varsity campaign.
  • middle-distance: A chronic asthma sufferer, he became a respected middle-distance runner.
  • 400m: This would be great for the 400m runner, who has few concerns about aerobic capacity and lactate threshold.

Modifies a noun

  • bean: The only veg not enjoying the weather are the runner beans - they need a little more heat to get going.

Noun used with modifier

  • marathon: There is already a team of marathon runners in place.
  • endurance: Even the endurance runners expressed an improved feeling of ' strength ' .
  • fore: This became the fore runner of the hack used in the modern game.
  • distance: This seems to be a treat reserved for the distance runner - endurance cyclists don't suffer.
  • blockade: Ships were bought and sold or purposely built as blockade runners.
  • mileage: Cushioning, 5 out of 5, very well cushioned shoe for the high mileage runner.

Possessives

  • bookie: Kay forces Tracey to hand over some of the money to her, and enlists Linda as her bookie's runner.

Preposition: up

  • prise: There will also be 3 runners up prizes of pairs of tickets for brewery visits.
  • spot: Callum settled for the runners up spot having had a grassy moment on the final lap.

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