Synonym: chalk up, hoist, sew, sew together, stitch. Similar words: run upon, run up against, unused, lunula, eunuch, jejunum, unusual, unusually. Meaning: v. 1. pile up (debts or scores) 2. raise 3. fasten by sewing; do needlework 4. accumulate as a debt 5. make by sewing together quickly run-up. n. 1. a substantial increase over a relatively short period of time 2. the approach run during which an athlete gathers speed.
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61. Per haps he's never run up against any walls.
62. She had never run up the stairs so quickly.
63. Well be in a store and hed run up the escalator.
64. Our best intentions regarding conservation and carbon reduction inevitably run up against the realities of foreclosure and bankruptcy and unemployment.
65. If he tries to change the rules of the club he will run up against a lot of oppositions.
66. It also has a large souk where ranks of tailors will run up a suit for you, plus a fun-fair.
67. Democracies may thus have an innate tendency to run up budget deficits.
68. He'd felt like he'd run up and down the stairs a few times, but even that was an improvement over the bone-deep weakness he'd been battling all year.
69. The depression, however, caused many irrecoverable accounts and Dr. Sim started to run up debts.
70. You'll find the job very difficult. You will run up against some very tricky problems.
71. Do they just run up and down theand watch Kobe?
72. He's...he's a...he's a speedster like the Flash, so you can do up things like run up the side of a building.
73. Every time we try to get the scheme going we seem to run up against yet another problem.
74. Run up and down the stairs until your legs are lighting up.
75. As for animal foods, it's only common sense to me now that I wouldn't run up to a cow and try to take a bite out of its hide; nor would I bend down, shove its calf aside, and try to suckle its teats.
76. Over the course of a long marriage, you're bound to run up against financial issues that you didn't plan for.
77. This is one of the most puzzling cases I have ever run up against.
78. Yet the new products can run up against longtime habits and even cultural concepts of cleanliness.
79. When our principles run up against our interests, which should we adhere to?
80. As Captain Ross steered the barge around the Ups, the Russian Imperial standard was run up at the fore, and when the boat had passed by the guns of the handsome little frigate fired a royal salute.
81. Do you know lndian boys used to run up to the bear and slap him?
82. But many attempts to link doctrine and economics have run up against exceptions and better explanations.
83. Every year the old man would run up a score in this shop.
84. In a few seconds the gyro will run up to 4,000 rpm.
85. If you go on calling him you'll run up a huge telephone bill.
86. He had run up debts totaling more than & 2,000.
87. It is a combination many countries signally failed to achieve in the run up to this huge crisis.
88. Obama's proposal will run up against the congressional calendar as well as election-year politics.
89. A little electric tingle seemed to run up my spine.
90. Those deficits were run up to defeat something outside the budget process (and we owed most of the debt to ourselves).
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