Library / English Dictionary

RUN BY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pass by while running

Example:

We watched children were running by

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "run by" is one way to...):

go by; go past; pass; pass by; surpass; travel by (move past)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Credits

 Context examples: 

The fruit store, where Martin had bought his vegetables, was run by an American whose business principles were so weak that he let Martin run a bill of five dollars before stopping his credit.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)