running
noun
the act of a person, animal, or thing that runs.
well-running
-
a word derived from
running.
Example Sentences
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“If you have two attorneys who can fight all day in a courtroom and then go out afterwards, that’s a sign of a well-running courthouse.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2021
“You need to know what the fixed, well-running thing should look like.”
From Time ● Jul. 28, 2014
There might,—he didn't know—be as good wives among the Shell maidens as among the well-running girls of the hills.
From The Story of Ab A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man by Stanley Waterloo
