How to Use running board in a Sentence

running board

noun

• The trim rings on the wheels are just right, as is the rubber tread on both running boards.
  — Vern Parker, Houston Chronicle, 13 Dec. 2019
• Pop two latches on the windshield, stand on the running board and fold the soft-top back past the rear seats.
  — Popular Mechanics, 6 Oct. 2020
• My older son grabbed the best spot, standing on the running board at the very front.
  — Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Sep. 2022
• With the pedestrian on the running board of the driver's side of the car, police said, the car sped off.
  — Orion Sang, Detroit Free Press, 20 Apr. 2021
• This version of the Colorado had running boards on the side, making it very easy to get in and out.
  — Tanya Wildt, Detroit Free Press, 18 Jan. 2018
• The running board on the driver’s side had a dent in it, Westerfield said.
  — Becky Jacobs, Post-Tribune, 15 June 2018
• The power running board acts like a robotic servant helping you in and out.
  — Robert Duffer, chicagotribune.com, 5 Mar. 2018
• Multiple witnesses said that Wilks opened his door a crack and stood on the running board.
  — Sophie Carson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Feb. 2020
• Elena, in period dress, posed on the car’s running board.
  — Linda Gandee/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 16 Aug. 2019
• The officer then got up on the vehicle's running board and reached through the driver's side window.
  — Alex Chhith, Star Tribune, 16 Apr. 2021
• Joshua Moser stood on the running board of his vehicle and ordered the driver and passenger to emerge, Descano said.
  — Tom Jackman, Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2022
• George Halas, owner of the Decatur Staleys, sat on the running board of an old Hupmobile.
  — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 22 July 2019
• The bill would ban Floridians from holding dogs in their lap while driving, or transporting their dogs via the car’s running board, fender, hood, roof, or trunk.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 25 Feb. 2023
• Later, following a slow-speed case in the suspect’s pickup truck, Officer Steven Sickmann got up on the truck’s running board and reached through the window.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 29 Dec. 2021
• Despite the conveniences and luxury elements such as the standard power running board, the F-150 is still a bang-around truck.
  — Robert Duffer, chicagotribune.com, 21 Feb. 2018
• In photographs from the time, women knit in air-raid bunkers and apartment buildings and on ambulance running boards, side by side in even rows like the stitches made by their own needles.
  — Rosa Inocencio Smith, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2020
• To ingress, step upon the motorized running board deployed for your convenience, or else take a flying leap into the driver’s seat.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2022
• The vehicles were still smoldering, and the driver of the half-track had half fallen out, his head which was crushed from one ear to the jaw lay reclining on the running board, and the pitiful remaining leg thrust tensely through the windshield.
  — David Denby, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2022
• Charter schools are accountable to publicly run boards and cannot select their student body except by random lottery.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 27 Feb. 2018
• One unlucky sod, presumably with a few drinks in him for fortitude, was tasked with standing on the car’s running board, making sure the driver didn’t dump them into the river on the 25-mile drive back up to Sacramento.
  — Davey G. Johnson, Car and Driver, 12 Dec. 2017
• Cruise the Land Besides seats and running boards, the Heritage also loses two cupholders (10 versus the regular 12), the cooler box in the center console, and the standard model's semi-aniline leather.
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 24 Apr. 2020
• Braun steered the business toward the more lucrative direction of selling truck accessories — bed liners, running boards and other products used to trick out trucks.
  — Robert King, Indianapolis Star, 12 Apr. 2018
• The vehicles began doubling as family transportation for farmers, and Chevy responded with niceties such as windows, doors fenders and running boards on its second-generation pickup.
  — Mark Phelan, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024