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run across
verb
- intr, preposition to meet unexpectedly; encounter by chance
Idioms and Phrases
see come across , def. 1.Example Sentences
Work to electrify railway lines running across the Pennines was given the go-ahead in 2022, more than 10 years after the scheme was first mooted by the then-Chancellor, George Osborne.
Bourgeois was centrally involved in the try that made the victory safe for France, her mazy run across the field preceding replacement Emilie Boulard adding their third score from close range in the 75th minute.
She says she ran across the road "not to rip the joey away from its mother, but from fear she might attack me".
A man who stopped his car with a flat tire near San Rafael in 1936 ran across what he thought was a piece of scrap metal, about 5 by 8 inches, covered in curious writing.
The pocket collapsed around Gabriel, who tried to find Terrance Ferguson running across the field, only for his pass to be broken up by Ohio State linebacker Cody Simon.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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