Sentence examples for try to run down from inspiring English sources

People do also try to run down police officers.

"It was just really hard to combat the power that she was giving me and try to run down enough balls on the grass".

There isn't a ball he won't try to run down, there isn't a shot he won't try — two traits that tend to make him occasionally inconsistent, but always entertaining.

"It's that year-after-year commitment to a strong American defense," Mr. Gore said, "that makes me so concerned when others try to run down America's military for political advantage in an election year.

Worse, Grabowski's stalking of Lydia seems to set off some sort of emotional reset button: she suddenly reverts to being wildly impulsive, self-pitying and hot-tempered, going so far as to try to run down the photographer with her car.

Through Jan . 13Taking its title from a 1975 B-movie in which car race contestants try to run down pedestrians, this sophomoric mess of a 30-artist exhibition means to satirize violent, addictive and otherwise excessive behaviors supposedly driving modern society to destruction.

A crop-dusting plane tries to run down our hero.

"Just trying to run down that ball," Hampton said with a chuckle, "or die trying.

Security forces on motorcycles tried to run down protesters, witnesses said.

With the Cubs ahead, 6-5, Griffey tried to run down Bako's drive with two outs.

"We're still trying to run down whether there was a delay in the alarm".