run out

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run out (of something)

to have no more of something. He just ran out of ideas. Time simply ran out.

See also: run

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I wanted to run out through the long pasture grass, wetting my legs with the dew of it, and to climb the rail fence, and keep on through the timber and up and up over the divide so as to get a look around. The Night-Born by London, Jack View in context Two more ships, being driven from their anchors, were run out of the Roads to sea, at all adventures, and that with not a mast standing. Robinson Crusoe by Defoe, Daniel View in context Six hours the waters run in, and six hours they run out, and the reason is this: when there is higher water in the sea than in the river, they run in until the river gets to be highest, and then it runs out again. The Last of The Mohicans by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context More results

References in classic literature

I wanted to run out through the long pasture grass, wetting my legs with the dew of it, and to climb the rail fence, and keep on through the timber and up and up over the divide so as to get a look around.

The Night-Born by London, Jack View in context

Two more ships, being driven from their anchors, were run out of the Roads to sea, at all adventures, and that with not a mast standing.

Robinson Crusoe by Defoe, Daniel View in context

Six hours the waters run in, and six hours they run out, and the reason is this: when there is higher water in the sea than in the river, they run in until the river gets to be highest, and then it runs out again.

The Last of The Mohicans by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context

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