How to Use run deep in a Sentence

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  • The colors blue and red run deep and long in snow country.
    Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The Dodgers got on the board in the top of the sixth after Trea Turner hit a solo home run deep to left.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2021
  • The ties between Israel and the United States run deep.
    Christian Datoc, Washington Examiner, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Prophet has been in the United States for over 50 years, but his heritage run deep.
    Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2024
  • While those first 400 copies may be lost to time, the paper’s archives run deep.
    Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 2022
  • Dana Carvey The comedian grew up in the Bay Area, so his ties run deep.
    Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Once again, our divisions run deep and the threat to our future is real.
    ABC News, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Its problems are large, enmities run deep, and the U.S. presence has shrunk notably in the past decade.
    Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 12 Mar. 2024
  • As the capital of colonial America, the city's roots run deep.
    Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Almost a decade after the show's finale, demand for the show continues to run deep.
    Leah Asmelash, CNN, 15 July 2022
  • The Crow family’s connections to the Dallas area run deep.
    Steve Brown, Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The roots run deep between Jalen Mills and Marcus Smart, and their matching green locks are just the latest connection.
    Jim McBride, BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2022
  • Jill Braverman was forced into qualifying, and used the warm-up game to ignite a huge run deep into the draw as the #44 seed.
    Todd Boss, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The father of three may not be a Southerner himself but his connections to the region run deep.
    Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The roots of the Barrio family run deep in the Bay Area hospitality scene.
    Chelsea Davis, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
  • For decades, the connection between music and the mountain lifestyle has run deep.
    Outside Online, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Why don’t the Aztecs try lining him up outside, run deep and at least give defenses something to worry about?
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2022
  • These men did not stride onto battlefields, but their legacies run deep.
    Tara Bahrampour, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2022
  • This is timely in our current age, when isolation and alienation run deep.
    David L. Bahnsen, National Review, 20 Jan. 2024
  • The roots run deep that brought House Republicans to this week’s demonstration of chaos and dysfunction.
    Dan Balz, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Its literary roots run deep, and books that might now be labeled as Afrofuturism have been around for decades.
    Felecia Wellington Radel, USA TODAY, 27 May 2022
  • Sacramento’s roots run deep, and some of its ties to California history can still be seen on the streets of the capital city.
    Hanh Truong, Sacramento Bee, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Like her brother James, Amy is proof that acting and filmmaking run deep in the Redford family.
    Stephanie Kaloi, Peoplemag, 9 June 2023
  • Every new year, people — especially those whose roots run deep in the South — soak black-eyed peas to make their favorite good luck dish, Hoppin’ John.
    Amethyst Ganaway, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Mariachi traditions run deep in Texas, a reminder of roots that predate U.S. borders.
    Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 29 May 2023
  • Mariachi traditions run deep in Texas, a reminder of roots that predate U.S. borders.
    Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 29 May 2023
  • Despite how eager the owners of the Cecil are to fill the building, the problems in L.A.’s homeless housing system run deep and are often out of the control of any one actor.
    Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Indigenous leaders say that the roots of the dysfunction in their communities run deep.
    Yan Zhuang, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2023
  • But while paranoia and despair run deep, the dark comedy also trades in a self-aware sense of humor that can be liberating.
    Dallas News, 22 Feb. 2023
  • While the Mets’ problems run deep and have many tentacles, their bullpen minus Diaz exacerbates all of them.
    Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 11 July 2023

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