How to Use rundown in a Sentence

rundown

1 of 3 noun

• They gave us a rundown on the main points of the news.
• He was caught in a rundown.
• Here’s our rundown of the best news to come out of 2024.
  — Rob Reddick, WIRED, 31 Dec. 2024
• Here’s our rundown of the best news to come out of 2022.
  — Sabrina Weiss, WIRED, 30 Dec. 2022
• Below is a brief rundown of the Whiskey of the Year and the ten whiskeys judged the best of 2024.
  — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
• Here is a rundown of what the A-List prospects did in Round 3.
  — Ben Thomas | [e-mail], al, 25 Nov. 2021
• Here's a rundown of some of the key findings from the study.
  — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 15 May 2024
• Here's a rundown of all the Week 12 action around the NFL.
  — Richard Morin, USA TODAY, 27 Nov. 2022
• Here's a rundown of all the Week 10 action around the NFL.
  — Jaylon Thompson, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2022
• Here’s a quick rundown of his thoughts as seen in the video above.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 25 Oct. 2021
• Here's a rundown of the cities that rank as the most expensive in the U.S.
  — Becca Stanek, The Week, 22 Dec. 2022
• Here's a rundown of all the Week 3 action around the NFL.
  — Jaylon Thompson, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2022
• Here's a rundown of all the Week 5 action around the NFL.
  — Jaylon Thompson, USA TODAY, 9 Oct. 2022
• Here's a rundown of the best bites, the good bites, the forgettable bites and the bad bites.
  — Emma Balter, Chron, 7 Mar. 2023
• Here’s a rundown of the songs that have toured each spot from No. 1 to No. 10.
  — Gary Trust, Billboard, 15 June 2022
• Here’s a quick rundown of his thoughts with the full video above.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 21 Nov. 2022
• Here's a rundown of all the wild-card action around the NFL.
  — Jaylon Thompson, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2023
• Here’s a rundown of the complex case against the singer thus far.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2021
• Be sure to check out the full rundown of the Always Pan 2.0 here.
  — Josie Howell | , al, 12 Apr. 2023
• Read on for a rundown on the down-to-earth celeb’s homes throughout the years.
  — Michelle Duncan, Architectural Digest, 3 Sep. 2024
• Here’s a quick rundown of races to look out for in March and how to sign up.
  — Chris Biderman, Sacramento Bee, 23 Feb. 2024
• Here’s a rundown of some of the most high-profile wins.
  — Nik Popli, Time, 9 Nov. 2022
• Here is a rundown of who received the grants and how much.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2022
• Here's a rundown of their ranks and their streams in the Sept. 3-9 tracking week.
  — Gary Trust, Billboard, 14 Sep. 2021
• Here's a quick rundown of the winners and the vote totals.
  — Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 7 Aug. 2024
• The rundown: The Rangers are running out of last-place teams to pad their record against.
  — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 10 Aug. 2023
• While the show closed on Oct. 15, a rundown of the show is available on the gallery website.
  — Shauna Stuart | [e-mail], al, 1 Dec. 2022
• To jog your memory, a quick rundown of the plot: The year is 2154.
  — Jamie Lauren Keiles, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2022
• Here’s a day-by-day rundown of our selection of Winter Carnival events to add to your calendars.
  — Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 21 Jan. 2025
• See the full rundown at the festival’s official website.
  — Thomas Smith, Billboard, 4 Feb. 2025

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run-down

2 of 3 adjective

• Drug use surged, and the place grew unsafe and run-down.
  — Penelope Green, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024
• Here is a run-down of the key races to watch as results start coming in tonight.
  — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Nov. 2024
• When Burns made the film 40 years ago, New York was run-down, and the bridge was a reminder of what the city had once been.
  — James Barron, New York Times, 24 May 2023
• Click below for a full run-down of the best camping gear must-haves.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Jan. 2023
• Until, that is, its restaurants started to get run-down and the menu didn’t adapt to the times.
  — Gary Stern, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
• Read about the issues at stake in this run-down by John Tuohy.
  — Kayla Dwyer, Indianapolis Star, 31 Oct. 2024
• Looking back at him, across the city’s run-down high-rises, was the looming statue of Christ the Redeemer.
  — Max Bearak, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024
• Williams had tried to get Prange out at third but Northwestern couldn’t execute a run-down.
  — Nick Alvarez | [e-mail], al, 28 May 2023
• Sign up for early access here, and check back next week for a full run-down on our favorite pieces of the collection and where to shop them.
  — Hannah Oh, Seventeen, 6 Mar. 2023
• All three were one- or two-bedroom abodes that were smaller than Uribe’s townhome and appeared run-down.
  — Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• With only one month to turn his run-down Opel Manta into a projectile, the race against the clock begins.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 17 Apr. 2023
• Since the engorgement can cause fever and an overall run-down feeling, it's aptly named milk fever.
  — Donna Murray, Rn, Parents, 22 July 2024
• The first-inning damage against Cortes could have been worse, but a run-down at the plate started a cross-diamond double play.
  — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 3 Apr. 2024
• For many readers, the chapter was just a dishy run-down of high-society women, their secrets and lies.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Jan. 2024
• Clark Park, in the heart of southwest Detroit, was in disrepair, with ruts in the baseball field, a run-down rec center and a decrepit ice rink.
  — Eric Guzmán, Detroit Free Press, 4 May 2024
• For now, a Marriott will do, a run-down Hilton, someplace there’s nothing worth stealing or being looked at.
  — John Cotter, New York Times, 20 June 2023
• The King’s speech, opening Parliament with a run-down of legislative plans, is delivered by the monarch as well.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 May 2023
• So in January 2020, the couple bought a run-down Cayucos motor lodge called the Dolphin Inn and then spent the next two and a half years transforming it.
  — Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2024
• Nearby was a run-down chicken coop occupied by a single hen.
  — Trip Gabriel, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023
• The apartments are run-down: no elevators, bars on windows and squat toilets.
  — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2023
• Its version of the character lives in a run-down duplex with only a mattress on a floor, bare walls, and piles of unpacked moving boxes.
  — Vulture, 13 June 2023
• His family was poor, at times desperately so, moving from run-down house to run-down house.
  — Clay Risen, New York Times, 7 Aug. 2023
• Here’s a run-down of the best Halloween TV episodes of all time, presented in alphabetical order.
  — Cady Lang, TIME, 21 Oct. 2024
• In the lulls between the lunchtime and late-night rushes, the space has the sort of uncanny near-emptiness that’s specific to places that are both overly sanitized and slightly run-down.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2024
• The unique nail-biter takes place in the shadows of L.A.’s homeless camps, run-down motels and dark alleys, following women who have turned — for various reasons — to a life of crime.
  — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2024
• The other, half a mile away, was a fanciful, if run-down, turreted 64-room white clapboard confection.
  — Penelope Green, New York Times, 2 May 2024
• Manson was arrested and found hiding in a bathroom cabinet in a run-down house in Death Valley, Calif., two months later.
  — Tanisha Bhat, Peoplemag, 10 Aug. 2024
• For the past year, Moises has lived with his wife and their twelve-year-old daughter in a run-down apartment at a red brick housing complex in Aurora, Colorado, a suburb of Denver.
  — The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2024
• Here is a run-down of every Coben adaptation on Netflix, listed in order of their latest score on Rotten Tomatoes.
  — Arion McNicoll, The Week Uk, theweek, 9 Jan. 2024
• The city is run-down, and Molly sees any improvements that the mayor—now on his sixth term—may make as cynical interventions to bolster his own power.
  — Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023

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run down

3 of 3 verb

• The video shows blood running down the roof from the body.
  — Elias Lopez, CBS News, 8 Aug. 2024
• Sweat ran down their faces, which were red from the sun.
  — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2023
• The Knights added a free throw and then ran down the clock to 2.1 seconds.
  — Lou Ponsi, Orange County Register, 8 Jan. 2025
• The butcher takes the $100 and runs down the street to retire his debt to the pig farmer.
  — Willie Brown, SFChronicle.com, 25 Apr. 2020
• The shell of one cracked on her head, and the yolk ran down her long, raven hair.
  — Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 12 Mar. 2020
• The nerves in the hand leave the neck and run down through the shoulder, elbow and wrist.
  — Alan Hedge, Time, 15 Apr. 2020
• The man said to be Arbery then comes out of the front door of the house and runs down the street.
  — Fox News, 10 May 2020
• Now, run down to where your home’s drainage pipe heads out to the street.
  — Ian Mount, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2022
• Gause helped ice the game by helping run down the clock.
  — Adam Lichtenstein, sun-sentinel.com, 28 Aug. 2021
• The buildings on the 150-year-old farm were run down, no longer used.
  — Kristine M. Kierzek, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Sep. 2021
• This is the first day of Wolfe’s fifth year trying to run down a pronghorn.
  — Christine Peterson, Outdoor Life, 23 Nov. 2020
• The median nerve is one of the largest nerves that run down your arm.
  — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 17 Jan. 2023
• Gately then broke off a 50-yard run down to the Tigers’ 9-yard line.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Oct. 2021
• The focus here should be on the scalp — the rest of the hair will be cleaned as the suds run down the strands, says Roszak.
  — Caitie Kelly, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2024
• The bus ride home probably felt like a run down the street.
  — Scott Springer, Cincinnati.com, 6 Mar. 2020
• The state trooper told me the guy had run down the hill down the back of the apartment in a black hoodie.
  — Arkansas Online, 29 Sep. 2020
• The neighbor ran down the block to alert Cao’s daughter of the attack.
  — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2023
• Would Sabrina get in the van to school or run down the street?
  — New York Times, 1 June 2022
• Holmes made a run down the right side, angled in and sent a low shot on goal.
  — Randy McRoberts, Baltimore Sun, 6 Sep. 2022
• Officials let the clock run down as the Huskies tried to get off one last play.
  — Matt Murschel, orlandosentinel.com, 18 Dec. 2021
• Hoover 5, Helena 1: Hoover scored three in the third to rally from a run down on the way to the win.
  — Al.com Reports, al, 26 Feb. 2022
• Race 6 1 – Quick Tempo – Looks to get a nice lead in this sprint and will be tough to run down.
  — Michael Beychok, NOLA.com, 18 Dec. 2020
• The girl noticed Soto and ran down to tell the other teens.
  — Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024
• The Lions were able to run down the clock and kick the winning field goal as time expired.
  — Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 16 Jan. 2025
• The kids were thrilled and their teacher had tears running down her cheeks.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Feb. 2024
• As for what’s next, Nelson hopes for a Broadway run down the road.
  — Kaitlyn Bancroft, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 July 2021
• Ammar made a great run down the sideline, got to the end line and crossed it in — easy tap in, back post.
  — Glenn Graham, baltimoresun.com, 7 Nov. 2021
• To top things off, Kyle Van Noy jumped offsides on third-and-1 to allow the Raiders to run down the clock.
  — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 26 Dec. 2020
• Young then ran down the street and looked down at his hand to saw his fingers were missing.
  — Charna Flam, People.com, 29 Jan. 2025
• Simeone set off running down the sideline to join in the celebrations, while Alonso just turned coolly on his heel and walked away in the other direction, keeping his thoughts and emotions to himself.
  — Dermot Corrigan, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 28 Feb 2025