How to use "running" in a sentence

Other times I am running across bright green fields with my friends.

They turn and come running towards me.

Then the children started laughing and running away from me

The others started running after me, and I ran as fast as I could

Then, when it got light, an American plane came and used fire-throwers on the enemy - and almost on us! Suddenly the trees were on fire, and men were running out of the jungle with burned skin and clothes.

He tried to clean it off and not look angry, but I didn't want to wait for them to start throwing things at me! No sir! I started running.

Honest Ivan fell off his chair, and everybody started screaming and running everywhere

Jean Valjean left the town and ran into the countryside, blindly following lanes and paths, not realizing that he was running in circles

Within minutes he was running along the path, shouting

Valjean looked for the boy for another hour, running along the path, calling out his name, but with no success

She had soon left the colourful lights and the happy laughter of the village behind her, and was running down the hill into the frightening darkness of the wood

From what they were shouting at each other, he understood that they were running from the police

People were running around, and there was a lot of noise, but Marius paid little attention

Within seconds, the soldiers had left the barricade, leaving their dead and wounded behind, and were running into the darkness at the far end of the street.

As other guns began firing at the smaller barricade, the rebels fought back bravely, but they were running out of bullets

He did strange, unexpected things, like running up and down stairs without knowing why

The wolf ran as fast as he could, taking the shortest path, and the little girl took a roundabout way, entertaining herself by gathering nuts, running after butterflies, and gathering bouquets of little flowers

I begin to walk faster, but I am soon running

I feel sweat running down my neck.

Then he hears the man shout, and he looks up and sees his angry face running towards him through the crowd.

He thinks that if he keeps running he can escape and find help; find the real police.

But then he hears someone running behind him, and he screams instead.

One moment they were running; the next there was the sound of the gun and a scream

Sala stepped onto a running machine, and started to run.

She arrived early and didn't have to wait in line, so in a few minutes, she was stretching her legs and then running mechanically, left-foot right-foot, on the machine.

She had been there for about thirty minutes when a woman began running on the machine next to her

Sala kept on running, forcing herself to look straight ahead.

Sala felt like running away, but something made her keep going

He complained that Sala spent too long running, not realizing that she was waiting..

Jasper was barking at him and running round and round

Suddenly, she sees someone running to the trees.

'He's running to that building,' says Nathan.

The refrigerator motor stopped running

"I'll park the car in front of the restaurant door, and I'll leave the engine running just in case."

"Then there's 'Vegas syndrome.' Someone gets so carried away with gambling and running from show to show that he forgets to eat for a whole day or longer

We'll wait until it's running smoothly, until it doesn't need much of your time

Bob was already out of the kitchen, in the dining room, running toward the front of the house

After all, the last couple of years we were married, Michael was running around with a lot of other women, spending most of his time away from home, and Danny felt even more abandoned than I did

here you are, running for your life, and all because of me."

In the car again, with the doors locked and the engine running and the heater operating full-blast, they sat in stunned silence, basking in the warm air, but shivering nonetheless.

"Except we're locked in, and the killers are running around loose on the outside."

"You feel good," Elliot said, "because we're not running anymore

"When we were running operations against the drug lords down in Colombia," Morgan said, "they called me 'Bats,' meaning I had bats in the belfry." He laughed.

Alexander peered anxiously through the sheeting snow into which the chopper moved like a blind man running full-steam into endless darkness

Tina met Elliot's eyes, and she knew that the same thought was running through both their minds

It was the first time he told me about his experiments and he came running into the house and threw the ashtray into my hands.

It was just a little later when Henri came running into the room to say that he had caught a funny fly

As we left the vicarage, Dennis came running towards us

A boy came running towards me.

I found myself alone, and saw the people on the other side of the pit running off

I fell a number of times because I was running with my head turned round

Three went through the open doors of the Oriental College and two began running from house to house

Men came running from buses to get copies

He went to bed a little after midnight and was woken in the early hours of Monday morning by the sound of knocking on doors, feet running in the street, distant drumming and the ringing of bells

Then he crossed the room and began to dress, running with each piece of clothing to the window in order to miss nothing of the growing excitement

The man was running away with the others and selling his papers for many times their normal price as he ran - a strange mixture of profit and panic.

There is no safety from the Black Smoke except by running away.

He heard people running in the rooms, and up and down the stairs behind him

When he saw them, the curate made a frightened noise and began running, but I knew it was no good running from a Martian and I crawled into some bushes by the side of the road

It was heavy, this smoke, so when it began to sink down it behaved like a liquid, running down hills and into the valleys

The men and horses near it were seen running, screaming, falling down

And as time passed and the engine drivers and firemen refused to return to London, the people turned in growing crowds away from the stations and onto the roads running north

He was told that the Midland Railway Company had started running trains again, and was taking people north from St Albans

Then suddenly, as we walked north, we saw some people running

The curate, who had been lying silently with his arms over his head, looked up as I passed, cried out quite loudly and came running after me.

They just used to rush off to work - I've seen hundreds of them, with a bit of breakfast in their hand, running to catch their train, frightened they'd be sacked if they didn't

After a week or two running around the fields on empty stomachs they'll come and be caught quite happily.' He paused

I began to feel very happy and I started running along the road.

When they are finally ready to pull, they start running

We didn't have the courage to tell him the truth: we were running away from the rain!

Look at all these people who are running after you,' said Connie.

On top of everything, I have dependable information that James is running after a new girl.'