Sentence examples for run swiftly from inspiring English sources

Seriemas run swiftly over the plains.

'To run swiftly' or 'swiftly to run' is correct; not 'to swiftly run'".

A novel, like a letter, should be loose, cover much ground, run swiftly, take risk of mortality and decay.

Some move slowly and rely on cryptic coloration for protection, whereas others can run swiftly across desert sands.

After the publication of what would be his first great success, "The Adventures of Augie March," he wrote to Bernard Malamud, "A novel, like a letter, should be loose, cover much ground, run swiftly, take risk of mortality and decay".

In 1953, to Bernard Malamud, he is insisting that "a novel, like a letter, should be loose, cover much ground, run swiftly, take risk of mortality and decay", and six years later, to his friend Josephine Herbst, he insists that "writers ought to... get away from the notion that literature is about itself.

On this night, the river was dark and glassy and running swiftly southward toward New York Harbor.

A wary bird, the great bustard is difficult to approach, running swiftly when endangered.

He ran swiftly around the track, and the audience went wild with good feeling.

The ruins of old homes strafed by Soviet gunships crowd a gravel streambed that is dry most of the year but runs swiftly with snowmelt come spring.

Rainwater normally runs swiftly off continental mountain ranges, pours down rivers, collects in aquifers and lakes and then winds across floodplains into the sea.