run-flat

[ ruhn-flat ]

/ ˈrʌnˌflæt /

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adjective

(of an automobile tire) constructed so as not to deflate completely after a puncture so that a motorist can still drive the vehicle for some distance.

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Origin of run-flat

First recorded in 1945–50

Words nearby run-flat

rune, Runeberg, runed, runesmith, rune-stone, run-flat, run for it, run foul, rung, Runge-Kutta method, run high

How to use run-flat in a sentence

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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.
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Should lightning strike and Hillary Clinton forgoes a presidential run, Democrats have a nominee in waiting.
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The decision not to run the cartoons is motivated by nothing more than fear: either fear of offending or fear of retaliation.
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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
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
Why not have sought out the pure white lime-rocks of the flat country, or the grey granite of the hills?
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
The controlling leaders being out of gear the machine did not run smoothly: there was nothing but friction and tension.
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