Example Sentences

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She loved the house feverishly, calling it “my Mena”, even though it was freezing, rat-run and chunks of the old wing kept crashing off.

From The Guardian • Feb. 23, 2018

"Long and winding road baffles drivers on the rat-run," offered the Times.

From BBC • Feb. 28, 2014

The plot, involving Burt Lancaster as an assistant D.A. assigned to prosecute teen-age gangsters, is straight out of Hollywood's pasteboard jungle, but the camerawork in Manhattan's rat-run slums is cruelly authentic.

From Time Magazine Archive

I am a good many things," he said, easily, "and the king of this rat-run amongst them.

From The Odds And Other Stories by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)

Lay it down at the opening of this rat-run, where you enter it from the house.

From A Little Wizard by Weyman, Stanley J.