run around with
phrasal verb
ran around with; run around with; running around with; runs around with
informal + disapproving
: to spend a lot of time with (someone)
He runs around with younger women.
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That has created odd races where the first 80 percent or so of the race requires running around with the gas pedal only half-pushed, which means a slow-looking pack of cars moving around.
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Jeff Gluck, The Athletic, 25 Aug. 2024
Keep the kids occupied with a D.I.Y. paper-lobster kit ($25), hypnotically beautiful and made from iridescent paper, while littler ones can run around with a pull-along wooden lobster (about $29), ingeniously constructed so the claws click-click-click (playfully?
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2024
Just this morning, a guy [was] running around with his dog not on a lead and a [man] tripped over and banged his head.
—Maureen MacKey, Fox News, 25 Oct. 2024
He’s already played 48 games this season (only two Premier League players have played more in all competitions) but runs around with the energy of a debutant trying to prove himself in each one.
—The Athletic Uk Staff, The Athletic, 24 Apr. 2024
While running around with his little ones is a little more challenging, there are also many aspects that Brady finds easier this time around.
—Emma Aerin Becker, People.com, 11 Oct. 2024
Meanwhile, Hugh’s heroics to save a young girl who perhaps reminds him of his own dead daughter called to mind Jeff Goldblum running around with the flare to save John Hammond’s grandkids, admittedly with much better results.
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 28 July 2024
About The Red Clay Strays Brandon Coleman, the charismatic lead singer, spent his youth running around with siblings and cousins on a family compound outside of Turnerville, just north of Mobile.
—Sid Evans, Southern Living, 3 Sep. 2024
There are Russian drones everywhere; people are running around with their eyes wide open.
—Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Aug. 2024
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Jeff Gluck, The Athletic, 25 Aug. 2024
Keep the kids occupied with a D.I.Y. paper-lobster kit ($25), hypnotically beautiful and made from iridescent paper, while littler ones can run around with a pull-along wooden lobster (about $29), ingeniously constructed so the claws click-click-click (playfully?
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2024
Just this morning, a guy [was] running around with his dog not on a lead and a [man] tripped over and banged his head.
—Maureen MacKey, Fox News, 25 Oct. 2024
He’s already played 48 games this season (only two Premier League players have played more in all competitions) but runs around with the energy of a debutant trying to prove himself in each one.
—The Athletic Uk Staff, The Athletic, 24 Apr. 2024
While running around with his little ones is a little more challenging, there are also many aspects that Brady finds easier this time around.
—Emma Aerin Becker, People.com, 11 Oct. 2024
Meanwhile, Hugh’s heroics to save a young girl who perhaps reminds him of his own dead daughter called to mind Jeff Goldblum running around with the flare to save John Hammond’s grandkids, admittedly with much better results.
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 28 July 2024
About The Red Clay Strays Brandon Coleman, the charismatic lead singer, spent his youth running around with siblings and cousins on a family compound outside of Turnerville, just north of Mobile.
—Sid Evans, Southern Living, 3 Sep. 2024
There are Russian drones everywhere; people are running around with their eyes wide open.
—Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Aug. 2024
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