runner

The first runner to cross the finish line wins the race.

The mare is the stables' runner for the 5.15 race at Epsom.

[…] at least half of which would be put into the pool for the winner, the rest kept for the runners of the system to cover costs and more than likely make a fair profit.

The modus operandi used by the idol and antique runners is to order consignments of fakes.

The runner was out at second.

He did a runner after robbing the drugstore.

After the cycle completes, the runner travels back quickly to be in place for the next cycle.

Maintenance was simplified by making all components easily accessible and easy to remove: for example, the air compressors in the short nose slide out on runners.

The car salesman told me that the used Volvo was a nice little runner.

The red runner makes the table so festive.

How about we put down a clear runner in the front hall.

This week hundreds of NFL agents gathered to hear an honorable man talk about a noble pipedream. It was a discussion about a significant step to end one of the cornerstones of corruption in college football: runners. Not the backs getting their 40 times tested at the scouting combine but the slimeball trolls who work on behalf of agents to help recruit — a generous word — football prospects by illegally giving them cash (or cars or money for family members or rent for a nice house) so the player then signs with the agent upon turning pro.

This idea isn't a runner. Let's not waste any more time on it.

In our prisons you might find a condemned man working as a runner, a trusty, which is about as far from segregation as you can get.

Don’t Look Up jabs around omnidirectionally, and some of the most gleefully ridiculous jokes land: There’s an inspired runner about an increasingly scandal-plagued Supreme Court nominee, for example, and another in which politicians and voters alike absurdly declare their allegiance to “the jobs the comet will bring.”