make a run for

1. see make a break for.

Example Sentences

It has been a wide-open secret for years that Wiener wanted to make a run for federal office when or if Pelosi retired, but he’s also been deferential to the elder stateswoman of California politics and has made it equally clear that he would wait his turn in the brutal and parochial machine of San Francisco politics.

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After biting and kicking Whitfield, she was able to get free, grab her son and make a run for it.

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When hearing his voice, some attempt to reach through the shrubbery while others make a run for the back stairs in hopes of seeing him.

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But it’s as if fentanyl has taken her prisoner, and they can’t convince her to make a run for it.

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“Impossible. We should restrain her with a binding juju and make a run for it.”

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