How to Use runoff in a Sentence

runoff

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• If all fall short, the top two will face off in a runoff election on Nov. 19.
  — David Feliba, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
• Still, Johnson will have a steep hill to climb in the runoff election.
  — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2023
• On August 20th, Arévalo won the runoff with fifty-eight per cent of the vote.
  — Graciela Mochkofsky, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2023
• Over 200 homes in Mesa flooded in the hours after the rain stopped, as runoff fed the water flow.
  — Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 10 Oct. 2024
• Scott and Thurmond went to a runoff election, which the former won by more than 30 points.
  — W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner, 12 Apr. 2023
• That could be, for instance, ranked choice voting or a runoff.
  — Ashley Lopez, NPR, 24 Sep. 2024
• And the spectacular rains and snowpack runoff should be the moment to do so.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2023
• To avoid a runoff against his two rivals, Subianto needs more than 50% of all votes cast and at least 20% in each of the country's provinces.
  — Niniek Karmini and Edna Tariganthe Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 15 Feb. 2024
• Current Mayor Lori Lightfoot, a Democrat, did not make the cut for the runoff.
  — Houston Keene, Fox News, 4 Apr. 2023
• That erosion allows more runoff into the ocean, which harms coral reefs.
  — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 31 July 2023
• The two will face off in a runoff election, which is scheduled for December 9.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 9 Nov. 2023
• This was the first high-flow experiment since 2018 and the first during the spring runoff season.
  — Shaun McKinnon, The Arizona Republic, 27 Apr. 2023
• Still, Bravo’s six challengers hoped to siphon off enough votes to pull him into a runoff.
  — Megan Rodriguez, San Antonio Express-News, 15 May 2023
• Good winters followed by equally good spring runoff have been hard to come by in the West in recent years.
  — Ella Nilsen, CNN, 24 June 2023
• Herrera only won 24% of the vote in the March primary, but the runoff has been a headache for Gonzales.
  — Caroline Linton, CBS News, 28 May 2024
• Mayor Lori Lightfoot came in third in the February election and didn’t make the runoff.
  — Joe Barrett, wsj.com, 4 Apr. 2023
• People gather in Paris to protest against the far right ahead of the second-round runoff elections to be held Sunday.
  — Carlo Angerer, NBC News, 7 July 2024
• Otherwise, the two candidates with the most votes will head to a runoff election Dec. 3.
  — Alex Golden, Axios, 26 Sep. 2024
• In the city of Chicago, the mayor, Lori Lightfoot, just failed to make the runoff in the Democratic primary.
  — CBS News, 5 Mar. 2023
• Everyone was focused on the runoffs because of what was at stake.
  — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 19 June 2024
• In each of the city races, the top two finishers in the March primary will advance to a November runoff.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2023
• The dirt two-track twists through Mud Tanks Draw, an area of low ground between ridges where water runoff collects in a chain of pools, rivulets and mucky ponds.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 18 Apr. 2024
• The issues outraged the mayor and council members at the time, who called for the city to not pay the county for overseeing the runoff that June.
  — Everton Bailey Jr., Dallas News, 17 May 2023
• Spring runoff goes under the building, creating a musty smell.
  — Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman, 13 Feb. 2024
• Then suddenly the falls’ overflow was upon us, runoff splashing across the trail.
  — Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2023
• If no one wins more than 50% of votes on March 5, the top two candidates will compete in a November runoff.
  — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2024
• If neither candidate tops 50%, the contest would go to a runoff three weeks later.
  — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
• Biagi is at least the third department head to leave since Johnson won the runoff election in April.
  — Sarah Freishtat, Chicago Tribune, 31 July 2023
• If no candidate wins more than 50 percent of the vote Sunday, then a runoff election will be held next month.
  — Rachel Chason, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2024
• Two years later, the method came under the national spotlight when an instant runoff decided the Senate race.
  — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2024

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run off

2 of 2 verb

• Ring footage, the post said, showed the boys knock on the door and run off.
  — Isabel Hughes, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2023
• The car ran off the left side of the roadway and hit a tree.
  — Jeff A. Chamer, Charlotte Observer, 9 Apr. 2024
• Martinez runs off the left side of the line for a gain of 2.
  — Nick Daschel | [e-mail], oregonlive, 3 Sep. 2023
• The Vibe ran off point streaks of five and six in the first game alone, winning 25-17.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Feb. 2024
• The Blue Jays scored their lone run off Manning in the third.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 28 Aug. 2021
• After the crash, the BMW driver jumped out and ran off.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Dec. 2023
• Instead, Aquino coughed up the ball, and the Cubs scored their third run off of Ashcraft.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 14 Aug. 2022
• What happened: Ja’Marr Chase had a short gain on a run off the right side of the line.
  — Michael Niziolek, cleveland, 18 Sep. 2022
• His 33-yard run off right tackle was the club’s longest gain of the night.
  — Jim McBride, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2022
• Yet, a third of the way in, the exhibition runs off the rails.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• The filter is washable, so there is no need to run off to the store to get a new one.
  — Sanah Faroke, PEOPLE.com, 22 Aug. 2021
• The match was tied at 12, but after the Dons ran off five straight points, the end seemed inevitable.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Nov. 2023
• As the roadway curved back to the left, the vehicle ran off the right side of the roadway.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 26 July 2023
• Hill flashed a peace sign to the video before running off the field.
  — Scott Thompson, Fox News, 15 Oct. 2023
• The other three ran off, but all were soon caught and detained.
  — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 July 2023
• But on just the third lap of its journey, it has already been run off the road.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2021
• No one has gotten a hit or a run off him in his last six games.
  — Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2022
• But as of today, Spears cannot, say, run off to Vegas and tie the knot.
  — Elizabeth Wagmeister, Variety, 14 Sep. 2021
• In the past, when the police showed up to conduct patrols, the young men would run off.
  — New York Times, 4 Feb. 2022
• Then the suspects ran off laughing with the woman's phone.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 8 Feb. 2024
• The police said the driver’s left front tire blew out, causing his car to run off the right side of the road.
  — Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2021
• While driving home one night, he was run off the road by a couple of cars.
  — David Peisner, Rolling Stone, 20 May 2024
• By the time the camera went back down to the field, Pacheco was running off the field with his teammates.
  — Scott Thompson, Fox News, 4 Oct. 2023
• Are there a ton of nieces and nephews there as well and all the kids run off together?
  — Meghan Leahy, Washington Post, 19 July 2023
• Then Lewan secured a takedown with no time left to run off with a 4-2 win.
  — Eli McKown, Detroit Free Press, 17 Mar. 2022
• Just 18 days later, the mobster trio came back to the home — this time running off with the artwork.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2024
• One of the dogs managed to run off and remains loose, WKBN reports.
  — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 10 Oct. 2022
• Los Angeles had their first run off Webb in the series and a lead.
  — Jorge Castillo Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2021
• A lot of times people run off the rails with drugs, or lose their money, or sign up with a Svengali manager who steers them wrong or takes too much of their income.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2024
• With less water running off fields and into the sea, growing stretches of dry lakebed are being exposed to desert winds that kick up lung-damaging dust.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024