fresh-run

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adjective

(of fish) newly migrated upstream from the sea, esp to spawn

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Words nearby fresh-run

freshman, freshmanic, freshman week, freshness date, fresh out of, fresh-run, freshwater, freshwater drum, freshwater pearl, fresnel, Fresnel biprism

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How to use fresh-run in a sentence

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Everybody is trapped in an elevator together and tempers run a little hot.
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Using standard methods, the cost of printing DNA could run upwards of a billion dollars or more, depending on the strand.
Design Your Own Dinosaur: The Era of Custom DNA|Justin Jones|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Should lightning strike and Hillary Clinton forgoes a presidential run, Democrats have a nominee in waiting.
Sen. Warren’s Main Street Crusade to Pressure Clinton|Eleanor Clift|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST

The decision not to run the cartoons is motivated by nothing more than fear: either fear of offending or fear of retaliation.
Why We Stand With Charlie Hebdo—And You Should Too|John Avlon|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Do not the widow's tears run down the cheek, and her cry against him that causeth them to fall?
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
In nine days he returned, bringing us the thanks of congress, and fresh orders.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
A few, very few, little dots had run back over that green patch—the others had passed down into the world of darkness.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I|Ian Hamilton
But if what I told him were true, he was still at a loss how a kingdom could run out of its estate like a private person.
Gulliver's Travels|Jonathan Swift
They are unquestionably penitent now; but then, you know, they have the recollection of very recent suffering fresh upon them.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, v. 2(of 2)|Charles Dickens