run in
verb- To arrest; (especially) to track down and arrest. · The guys who robbed the bank last week have finally been run in.
- To start a new regime slowly.
- To score (a try).
- To insert (a word, etc.) without making a line break or new paragraph (so that it is not free-hanging). · With these subsections, it is better to run their headings in.
- To alter the position of matter to fill vacant space.
From the library
They would sit in circles on the hall of the king’s council chamber, and scratch for fleas and pretend to be men; or they would run in and out of the roofless houses and collect pieces of plaster and old bricks in a corner, and forget where they had hidden them, and fight and cry in scuffling crowds, and then break off to play up and down the terraces of the king’s garden, where they would shake the rose trees and the oranges in sport to see the fruit and flowers fall.
“If Teddy doesn’t pick him up by the tail, or try to put him in a cage, he’ll run in and out of the house all day long.
Rikki jumped sideways and tried to run in, but the wicked little dusty gray head lashed within a fraction of his shoulder, and he had to jump over the body, and the head followed his heels close.
“Oh, I’ve had such a curious dream!” said Alice, and she told her sister, as well as she could remember them, all these strange Adventures of hers that you have just been reading about; and when she had finished, her sister kissed her, and said, “It _was_ a curious dream, dear, certainly: but now run in to your tea; it’s getting late.” So Alice got up and ran off, thinking while she ran, as well she might, what a wonderful dream it had been.
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