run across
verb- To cross by running. · The police ran across the bridge to catch the criminal.
- To find or discover by chance; to come across. · While I was cleaning the kitchen cupboards, I ran across Mother's recipe for Cornish game hens.
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A lath-and-plaster partition had been run across the passage six feet from the end, with a door cunningly concealed in it.
He wanted to run across all of Canada.
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