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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91. In keeping a diary in English, we inevitably run up against a lot of difficulties.
92. I must have run up quite a bill at your candy store today.
93. So, you reckon they'll make us run up those or ski down them?
94. Please run up to the store and Buy a newspaper.
95. She had run up a huge phone bill during the course of the relationship.
96. He went to bed as as a trivet. Shall I run up and look at him?
97. I get out of the jeep with Dog and Whitetail,[sentencedict.com/run up.html] and lots of children run up to see who I am.
98. She took a clerking job in a grocery store because her apartment was on the floor above it and between customers she could run up and keep an eye on the babies.
99. There is enough power to run up to four lights.
100. Rather, it was stopped. Abruptly the near side of it flattened as though it had run up against an invisible wall. It bounced , actually bounced back.
101. You will see this vapid air of yours run up against an outlandish shame of living.
102. But this system of "direct exchange" of useful goods, or ''barter, " has severe limitations which exchangers soon run up against.
103. Your heart beat will quicken when you run up the stairs.
104. That means telecoms can finally put fiber-optic lines into people's homes, where cables often run up against right angles and tight squeezes from the sidewalk to the house.
105. I must have run up quite a bill at your beauty shop today.
106. Open these if you run up against a problem you don't think you can solve before going to the board.
107. Tripod steady. Run up the bank with sun coming fast behind him.
108. It performed ineptly in the run up to the financial crisis and in refusing to bail out Lehman Brothers.
109. It recognizes, however, the value of second-best solutions in a political environment where reforms of health care are likely to come slowly because they run up against many powerful vested interests.
110. The sites are contracting with us, and so they want us to run up going in and highjacking their sites and putting advertising on their sites.
111. Even so, you'veprobably also run up against people who love your idealism, but warn you tolower your sights, to scale back your ambitions a bit, to settle for somethingless.
112. Luckily, the stores in Kuwait stay open until after 2 am in the run up to Eid. So, I was able to race out and buy an abaya (a loose gown) just after midnight.
113. We had run up the trades to get the wind of the island we were after - I am not allowed to be more plain - and now we were running down for it with a bright look-out day and night.
114. We may run up against some difficulties but we are confident of overcoming them.
115. You may run up to the ends of the earth, but actually is no place hides.
More similar words: run upon, run up against, unused, lunula, eunuch, jejunum, unusual, unusually, unusable, unutterable, own up, pin up, open up, burn up, grown-up, turn up, join up, blown up, sign up, nuptial, cleanup, clean-up, grown-ups, clean up, taken up, button up, frown upon, freshen up, loosen up, nuptials.