run deep

idiom

: to be felt very strongly

Fear runs deep in this small town.

Her love for her family runs deep.

Examples of run deep in a Sentence

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The conservative values still run deep in Livingston County, where rural farmland encloses its few urban areas. —Sonja Krohn and Siddhi Choubey, Detroit Free Press, 1 Nov. 2024

And Jermain Charlo's roots run deep on this reservation. —Michelle Miller, CBS News, 12 Oct. 2024

Pay disparities and rank inequalities continue to hinder Black professionals, and the roots of this problem run deep. —Dr. Vic Baker, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024

Roots of extremism run deep, what's old is new again The roots of extremism in Indiana and the United States run deep, but the ascension of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s pushed the issue into the modern public consciousness. —Sade Ajishegiri, Nic Napier, Max Reich and Isabella Vesperini, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Sep. 2024