As the torch runner approached the stadium, the crowd erupted in cheers.

The blockade runner slipped through the night, carrying vital medical supplies to the besieged city.

After the competition, the runner-ups congratulated the winner and promised to train harder for next year.

Every summer she grows runner beans along the garden fence to attract hummingbirds with their red flowers.

The base runner stole second on a wild pitch and advanced to third.

My grandfather was a ridge-runner who knew every hidden trail in the Southern Appalachians.

The runner bean climbed the trellis, its long scarlet pods dangling like strings of beads.

In the 1800s, players in town ball would shout 'plug the runner' and aim a thrown ball at the advancing baserunner to put him out.

The free runner leapt across the rooftop, landing with a confident grin.

In 19th-century baseball, fielders sometimes tried to soak the runner by throwing the ball at him to put him out, a practice that was outlawed after 1845.