Sentence examples for ran rapidly from inspiring English sources

Then, at a signal which ran rapidly along the line, all the younger and more active men charged into the mass, striking right and left with their clubs and felling a kangaroo at every blow...

These trim birds walk and run rapidly (but never hop).

"But we had better get ready, because we are running rapidly toward a minefield.

Readers seeking spontaneity, magic, vigor, may wish to run rapidly, screaming, in the opposite direction.

The mice then displayed hyperactive behavior, like running rapidly in a circle.

Webspinners have short, stout legs and run rapidly both forward and backward.

The burrowing owls, however, being terrestrial, can run rapidly over the ground and rarely perch in vegetation.

The chicks, covered with protectively coloured down, leave the nest during their first day, running rapidly on relatively large feet.

They have worked extremely hard to protect core services from the full impact but they are running rapidly out of wriggle room".

In one of the most memorable sections two men slingshot their fellows onto the floor, where they run rapidly backward in intersecting arcs, limbs furiously pumping.

A number of beetles secure protection by virtue of their agility; many ground beetles and tiger beetles run rapidly, and the latter also readily take flight.