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 2022.
  — Sabrina Weiss, WIRED, 30 Dec. 2022
• 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 10 action around the NFL.
  — Jaylon Thompson, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2022
• 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 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 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
• 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'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
• Click here for the full rundown of what the Supreme Court ruling has meant so far.
  — Max Thornberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 9 July 2024
• Justin Chang and Glenn Whipp gave a rundown on how the voting went down.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2023
• Watch for a closer look at the Fold, and a rundown of its features.
  — Matthew Buzzi, PCMAG, 1 Sep. 2022
• Here’s the rundown on who’s in the cast, where the series will take place, and when the new season will premiere.
  — Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 18 Jan. 2024
• Here, a rundown of the hair and makeup looks to follow next spring—or right now.
  — Mélanie Nauche, Vogue, 5 Oct. 2022
• For a more detailed rundown, check out our guide on how to clean a BBQ grill.
  — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 21 Apr. 2023
• Here’s a rundown of some of the plans being floated for the endgame in Gaza and their prospects for success.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 6 June 2024
• Here’s a complete rundown of all the Easter eggs in the music video.
  — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 10 July 2023
• Perhaps a universal truth for all the spots on the list ahead — read on for the full rundown.
  — Lila Harron Battis, Travel + Leisure, 9 July 2024
• Here's a rundown on the most expensive dog, plus other pricey pooches.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2024

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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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Her shop, one of the oldest in the neighborhood, served as a time capsule of a bygone era as Navy Yard transformed from a run-down, industrial eyesore to one of the most modern and expensive parts of the District.
  — Marisa Iati, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2024
• Torres Soto’s TikTok post about one run-down bathroom at her school resonated with students at other schools.
  — Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 29 Feb. 2024
• Demps grew up on a strawberry field in a run-down trailer situated about an hour outside of Tampa, in a little Florida town called Plant City.
  — Tricia Despres, Peoplemag, 18 July 2024
• Inside was a seedy ’30s club supported by robust arches of stone, with run-down floorboards leading to arrangements of billiard tables and Thonet chairs.
  — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 16 Apr. 2024
• Page Turner, a real estate broker and investor for 20 years, is an entrepreneur and coach for people who want to renovate run-down homes.
  — Jura Koncius, Washington Post, 10 May 2023
• Not to mention that overindulging can leave you feeling run-down and unable to rally for another full day of family togetherness.
  — Petra Guglielmetti, Glamour, 11 Oct. 2023
• As their name suggests, Full Circle’s bread-and-butter is restoring run-down historic properties to their full potential, and the show focuses on the house and its history.
  — Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 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
• Now, run down to where your home’s drainage pipe heads out to the street.
  — Ian Mount, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2022
• 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 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
• The girl noticed Soto and ran down to tell the other teens.
  — Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024
• The kids were thrilled and their teacher had tears running down her cheeks.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Feb. 2024
• 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
• Davis and Westbrook didn’t get back up, the clock left to run down without the team’s best players on the floor.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2022
• That hotel was super-run down, but the rooms were huge.
  — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2021
• The cats have two black lines running down their foreheads and white tips to their long tails.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 1 May 2024
• The Saints didn't convert on 3rd-and-1, didn't get a new set of downs to run down the clock … and the rest is history.
  — Charles Curtis, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2022
• During the broadcast, the footballer ran down the field before rolling on the ground.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 13 Feb. 2024
• The zippers run down the front with lined mesh pockets on the inside to hold paint cans and things like that.
  — Melvin Backman, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
• So, perform a hard reset rather than wait for the battery life to run down.
  — Toby Grey, BGR, 22 May 2022
• Parents of the teenagers involved were outraged that they could’ve been run down.
  — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 29 July 2022
• So Lynn leaves in a huff, and Jim runs after her, and then almost gets run down by a car.
  — Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 12 Oct. 2021
• Her hair ran down her back as the wave carried her, moving the board forward the way only the ocean can.
  — Elahe Izadi, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2023
• Edgar and Mark run down the list during the latest edition of Swamp Things.
  — Orlando Sentinel, 29 July 2022
• This is a fine time to enjoy the great outdoors — a brisk walk in the park, a run down on a slope, or a trek through the woods is good for the soul.
  — Ed Silverman, STAT, 13 Feb. 2022
• Malone has showed a knack for being able to run down plays from the back side in practices.
  — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 4 Feb. 2022
• Trickles of sweat run down backs while beads form on foreheads.
  — Freep.com, 10 June 2022
• When he’s run down on his bike by a local police officer, things take a turn for the worse.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2024
• That followed their having come back from a run down in the ninth inning to win the final two games of their sweep in Pittsburgh.
  — Kevin Acee, Orlando Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024