ran
verb
simple past tense of run.
ran
1 American
[ran]
/ ræn /
verb
Ran
2
American
[rahn]
/ rɑn /
noun
Scandinavian Mythology.
RAN
1
British
abbreviation
ran
2
British
/ ræn /
verb
Example Sentences
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He also ran for 39 yards with one touchdown on three carries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
The best part: Instead of chain-hotel dining, I had pizza and gelato on the promenade for dinner, sunset drinks at a rooftop bar and ran along the water the next morning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
World number 37 Norrie edged the tie-break and then ran away with the deciding set to complete victory in two hours and 52 minutes.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
When Graham Platner ran for Senate, he came with an irresistible, dream candidate profile: a plainspoken veteran and man of the people who was ready to change careers from oyster farmer to politician.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
Time and again we turned away from it and ran on, partly because the heat was so intense, and partly because we could bear to watch no longer.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
Last week, the Israeli military said it had retrieved the remains of police officer Master Sgt Ran Gvili at a cemetery in northern Gaza.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2026
Ran them through what one player describes as the fiercest workout of their entire time together.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
The remains of Ran Gvili, an Israeli military police sergeant who was killed and whose body was stolen to Gaza during the Hamas-led attack, were identified after a monthslong recovery effort.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 26, 2026
The Israeli military said on Monday that the remains of the last hostage held in Gaza, Ran Gvili, had been identified and were being repatriated to Israel for burial.
From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026
Ran was, by all accounts, an unusually gracious young man.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
The mandate also calls for more efforts to accelerate next-generation technologies including quantum innovation, AI and radio access network, known as Cloud RAN.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
"A few minutes later I saw Mr. Paxton RAN from the door inside the garage towards the rear door behind the driver side," he writes.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2022
“A few minutes later I saw Mr. Paxton RAN from the door inside the garage towards the rear door behind the driver side,” Mr. Herrera wrote.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 27, 2022
"As soon as he saw me and heard me call his name out, he turned around and RAN back inside the house through the same door in the garage," Herrera describes.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2022
When he reached the head of the clearing, he said something quickly to the bird-faced man and they both, with an entire lack of dignity, RAN!
From The War in the Air by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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