How to Use running time in a Sentence

running time

noun

• The 13-and-a-half-hour running time is a bit of a red flag, though.
  — Marshall Heyman, Vulture, 23 June 2021
• And the lean running time keeps the movie a romp instead of an endurance test.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 31 July 2020
• Bui wasn't the only one to comment on the film's running time.
  — Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 5 Dec. 2020
• All of this happens in the last episode, and takes but a few seconds of running time.
  — Clio Chang, New Republic, 26 Sep. 2017
• And, for most of its nearly two-hour running time, that’s OK.
  — Hau Chu, Twin Cities, 1 Sep. 2019
• This one is even leaner and slicker than the last, capping in at a minute and a half of run time.
  — Evelyn Wang, Glamour, 19 Jan. 2018
• The pace is slow, even though the running time is only 97 minutes.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 27 May 2021
• Similar to the Fluffy, this variant has a 30-minute run time.
  — Benjamin Levin, CNN Underscored, 17 Oct. 2019
• This isn't a DC movie where two people kiss once in a three-hour running time.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 11 Aug. 2022
• But even though the trail into Nikolai seemed slow, run times were right on pace from 2016.
  — Jake Berkowitz, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Mar. 2018
• But these scenes represent a fraction of the movie’s 94-minute run time.
  — Carla Meyer, idahostatesman, 9 Feb. 2018
• The episodes are believed to be about 90 minutes each, but the run time for the finale has not yet been confirmed.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Mar. 2019
• Given the film’s running time, the pacing of the second act was off and somewhat rushed.
  — Nicole Froio, refinery29.com, 21 Sep. 2023
• The gift set has a run time of 16 hours, on eight discs, and includes more than three hours of extra footage that wasn’t aired on PBS.
  — oregonlive, 22 Nov. 2019
• Next week, the show will celebrate Halloween and toss in team dances to pad the two-hour running time.
  — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 23 Oct. 2017
• Yet its running time turns out to be both unhurried and unerring.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 9 Dec. 2021
• Somehow, all of that is going to fill up the three-hour running time, since Tuesday’s episode runs from 8 to 11 p.m.
  — oregonlive, 28 Sep. 2021
• The running time has ballooned, too, from under an hour to a good 90 minutes.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2022
• That puts you into two full days of run time, which was enough to get me through four days of touring without a recharge.
  — Aaron Gulley, Outside Online, 29 June 2018
• Feature films must have a running time of more than 40 minutes.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 20 Jan. 2022
• Feature films must have a running time of over 40 minutes.
  — Caroline Brew, Variety, 8 Jan. 2024
• With up to 60 minutes of run time on a single charge, this mower is a great pick if your lawn is up to a half an acre in size.
  — Paige Szmodis, Popular Mechanics, 17 July 2019
• The most welcome news of all is that the running time is seventy-two minutes.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2022
• The most daring thing is how long the sequence goes—six minutes, nearly five per cent of the movie’s running time.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2023
• But page counts and running times work in different ways.
  — New York Times, 3 Sep. 2019
• For readers who stayed up all night to pore through the brick-sized books, the show’s five-plus-hour run time (over two nights) is only fitting.
  — Maeve McDermott, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2018
• The screen is quite dim, and battery life is wretched, with about two hours and 15 minutes of running time on a full-screen video test.
  — Christopher Null, WIRED, 22 Sep. 2017
• The new season has its strengths – Episode 7 is a high point, for example, even at its lengthy running time.
  — oregonlive, 23 May 2022
• One major factor that may have hurt the film's box office was its lengthy run time: 2 hours and 43 minutes.
  — Ana Johnson, CNN, 13 Oct. 2017
• Ant-Man and the Wasp completes its full arc in a smooth 36, give or take, along with a comfortably digestible two-hour run time.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 5 July 2018

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024