run across

verb

1. (intr, preposition) to meet unexpectedly; encounter by chance

Idioms and Phrases

see come across, def. 1.

Example Sentences

The click, click, click of their fingers running across the ten-by-ten gray manual keyboards of their calculators resonated throughout the room.

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Her latest role as Mary Todd Lincoln in “Oh, Mary!” presented a different challenge: screaming and running across a stage in a hoop skirt.

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If you’re connecting, you get an alert when you land with advice on walking or running across the terminal.

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Security cameras filmed them running across the hillside and through the factory gates, where they torched several trucks.

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As the sun begins to set over the San Gabriel Mountains, a group of people runs across a vibrant turf soccer field, passing a ball through the air.

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