Sentence examples for ran higher from inspiring English sources

But delays set in and the price of materials, planning and contracting ran higher than expected.

The river of the eighteen-seventies ran higher than it ever had before.

He was especially perturbed by the sight of garbage after heavy rains, he said, when the river ran higher.

Tempers ran higher when the police killed two demonstrators.Instead of tax rises, the protesters wanted spending cuts.

The ambitions of Břetislav, who was enthroned in 1034, ran higher, and he invaded Poland in 1039 with only temporary success.

Costs ran higher then, Mrs. Phillips said, because she paid her father's larger-than-usual utility bills, as well as gasoline and restaurant meals for her own family when she was running back and forth to the hospital.

Anxiety ran high.

Emotions ran high.

Tempers ran high.

Optimism ran high.

Passions often ran high in these messages.