Sentence examples for ran for something from inspiring English sources

And Peter ran for something".

I went to see Anthony Page's Design for Living the other day – mildly startled to discover that it contained two intervals and ran for something over three hours.

Legislative turnover often peaks in redistricting years, and, in fact, 40 members of the Texas House won't be back in January, either because they quit, ran for something else or got beaten in the primaries.

Somebody will always be running for something.

"Run for something else, or go home".

But he'll run for something again".

"Every time you turned around he was running for something.

Everyone else there seems to be running for something, too.

But all that is really known is that he filed the paperwork to run for something.

People generally think that when a politician writes a book, he's running for something.

Then the next time he runs for something, he can say: 'You know what?