Sentence examples for ran behind from inspiring English sources

If the appointments ran behind, we had to stay in the city until the evening and arrive home late at night, to avoid sitting in traffic.

The Missouri River ran behind him.

We ran behind a brick wall.

Two Hispanic children gasped and ran behind their mother.

She let them go and ran behind us.

"He ran behind a deli counter and grabbed a cleaver.

He ran behind an offensive line that wasn't that good.

He ran behind the big overstuffed armchair in which she was sitting.

In a number of Southern states, Nixon ran behind Hubert Humphrey.

"So, he just took a risk, and ran behind my mineral line," she said.

And I.B.M.'s AIX version of Unix has become an also-ran behind Sun's more popular Solaris.