Sentence examples for plain run from inspiring English sources

While government estimates of "technically recoverable" oil in the coastal plain run as high as 14 billion barrels, the amount of "economically recoverable" oil at today's prices -- the only figure the oil industry itself pays any attention to -- is a little over three million barrels.

Still, I predict it could supplant the kind of content blackholes that services like Pocket often become for people who fully intend to read a lot of content later on, but who find they just plain run out of time.

The novel presents the hilarious and heartbreaking ways people intertwine, overlap and just plain run over each other in the acts of love, friendship, sex, and gambling, and all other necessary acts of resistance.

You know, that plain, run-of-the-mill Muslim who simply wants to pay off her mortgage and spot this year's X factor winner before it becomes too obvious.

Most of the county lies in an upland region forested with hardwoods, with only a narrow coastal plain running along the southern edge.

The Liberty didn't so much lose to the Washington Mystics tonight in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals as just plain ran out of gas.

The rest are just plain running shoes — an array of brands in a rainbow of colors, the kinds you see shuffling along the ground on a normal race day.

The family that owned the paper, the Bancrofts, ran in circles, and then accepted Mr. Murdoch's money and his promises to uphold the paper's traditions and just plain ran.

In a nutshell, Google: "plain ran out of time".

The problem is most severe in the infamous tornado alley – a vast plain running from Texas in the south to Nebraska in the north.

So how does he do it without getting tired, bored, or just plain running out of steam?