Sentence examples for to runner from inspiring English sources

Runner to runner, just go right for the half.

About five months ago, I declared that I was going to transform myself from couch potato to runner and complete a fall marathon.

My transformation from "someone who went for a run" to "runner" was accompanied by the kind of monomania that characterises both Olympic athletes and middle-aged men in Lycra.

An exemplary bad-beat narrative sounds like this: "I went all-in on the flop with aces, the board was AKQ rainbow, got called by 57 suited who also called my huge raise preflop, and lost to runner runner flush".

ITV has moved to offer viewers who voted for O'Dwyer to win a refund, but did not go as far as looking to hand the title to runner up Jamie Raven.

According to Runner's World, I've run 106,000 miles.

So Max Verstappen was promoted to runner-up, his second podium finish in succession.

Though he was retroactively awarded the 2010 Tour de France title in February, as a result of the doping suspension of the Spaniard Alberto Contador, he has struggled to find the form that helped him to runner-up Tour finishes in 2009 and 2011.

For instance, if the thermometer on Wednesday topped out at 88 instead of the predicted 91, and the low on Thursday fell to 75 instead of 77 — and, fingers crossed, that carried through the week — July 2010 could be relegated to runner-up status, Mr. Ciemnecki said.

In a strange spring, when Fusaichi Pegasus went from Derby-winning superhorse to runner-up in the Preakness and finally a slip-and-fall-in-his-stall-no-show in the third leg of the Triple Crown, why not a little turnaround for the snake-bitten?

Even before the vote, the talk in the Parliament hallways was of whether Mr. Peres could shake off the image he has acquired over the last two decades by losing four of five elections for prime minister, as well as leadership battles within the Labor Party that relegated him to runner-up status, first behind Mr. Rabin and then Ehud Barak, the current prime minister.