Sentence examples for takes a running from inspiring English sources

The Australian writer Tony Perrottet's first book to be published in America, ROUTE 66 A.D.: On the Trail of Ancient Roman Tourists (Random House, $25.95), takes a running leap directly into the problem of centuries of tourist saturation.

The Frankfurter Rundschau daily judged that, although the proudly tactless Charlie Hebdo regularly takes a running leap across the boundaries of good taste, its appearance on the German media scene was to be welcomed.

She plays primarily in right field, and at the plate, she is a "slapper" — softball parlance for a left-handed batter who takes a running start when she swings, putting the ball in play and using her speed to beat the throw to first base.

He has two soulmates: Zelda (naturally), who this time around actually receives a fair bit of screen time before the inevitable happens, and a gigantic bird called a Loftwing that swoops to gather him whenever he takes a running jump off the edge of his airborne world.

Like a person who takes a running start and leaps over a chasm, the economy at the moment is suspended in midair, losing speed and altitude but still hoping to maintain enough momentum to make it to the other side.

Human evolution is the topic of chapter 6, but Bloort takes a running start, beginning with the emergence of vertebrates from the water; the account follows Neil Shubin's Your Inner Fish (2008), especially in its treatment of vertebrate limb homology, and Shubin himself appears twice on p. 116.

Right before he took a running jump into it.

So I wandered the mall, taking a running sign taxonomy.

I take a running leap down the pier — "Ayyyyiii!" — and launch over the water.

Take a running lesson in the Presidio, a gorgeous wooded national park right in the city.

"(The shark) just launched himself up without taking a running start.