Sentence examples for ago run from inspiring English sources

Not far away, William Cruz, 58, fastened pieces of raw chicken to two wire crab traps, which he tossed into the water, next to the hulking, rusted skeleton of a large boat that had long ago run ashore.

All this after-midnight atmosphere seems to be replaced by peeling paint, dirty floors and a desolate bar area, and a sense that this is not a place of entertainment but a space where dreams have long ago run out.

It is described with a directness that might make some readers queasy: "He has long ago run out of blank skin on his forearms, and he now recuts over old cuts, using the edge of the razor to saw through the tough, webby scar tissue: when the new cuts heal, they do so in warty furrows, and he is disgusted and dismayed and fascinated all at once by how severely he has deformed himself".

"Though Stahr's education was founded on nothing more than a night school course in stenography, he had a long time ago run ahead through trackless wastes of perception into fields where very few men were able to follow him," Fitzgerald wrote.

marks the arrival of Supergirl, which of course means that the show has long ago run its course and they know it: the eighth season will probably be its last.

We had played every CD in our case, some multiple times, and had long ago run out of things to talk about other than how uncomfortable we were and what a terrible idea it was to drive the journey "nonstop".

Mr. Paulson not long ago ran the Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs.

Once, and not so long ago, running for US political office was comparatively simple.

A team several years ago ran out of bottled liquid to spray.

The brick factory that the British built here 80 years ago runs like a vein of hell upon the smooth earth.

It is a near-miracle that she found time to direct "Ten Unknowns" since she started a new job eight months ago running the Neighborhood Playhouse in Manhattan.