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Definition of Ran

Ran

imp. of Run.

Open robbery.

Yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch.

of Run

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Ran Quotations

We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
Vince Lombardi

I had some eyeglasses. I was walking down the street when suddenly the prescription ran out.
Steven Wright

I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out.
Steven Wright

I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle!
Woody Allen

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.
John Adams

If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.
Robin Williams

I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened.
Wilma Rudolph

Four years ago in speaking of a Jewish nation one ran the risk of being regarded ridiculous. Today he makes himself ridiculous who denies the existence of a Jewish nation.
Theodor Herzl

When I was young, I was too slow. I thought I must learn to run fast by practicing to run fast, so I ran 100 meters fast 20 times. Then I came back, slow, slow, slow.
Emil Zatopek

I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran from east to west more than ten leagues.
Christopher Columbus

The word was enough. It ran like fire along the line, from man to man, and rose into a shout, with which they sprang forward upon the enemy, now not 30 yards away.
Joshua Chamberlain

I ran into Ku Klux Klan and the threat of hurricanes, and those two things made me decide not to build on the Alabama coast, so we came back to Memphis.
Shelby Foote

I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts.
Allen Ginsberg

You had 42 blacks that ran on the Republican ticket this Cycle, 14 made of them made it to the general election and two of us made it to the House of Representatives. So I think that there is a new movement that needs to have a voice in the Congressional Black Caucus.
Allen West

They almost ran me off the road several times. There are so many chances that they take to get the right photo.
Loni Anderson

I used to think that it didn't make any difference how far you ran if you had a good, strong musculoskeletal system and no underlying cardiovascular problems.
Kenneth H. Cooper

Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of LA in the next election. Remember the good 'ol days when only qualified people ran for office like actors and professional wrestlers.
Jay Leno

Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.
Gloria Swanson

My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened, right before church and he ran up and got on the roof of his grandfather's house and watched the planes go over.
Sigourney Weaver

Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.
Rahm Emanuel

He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
John Galsworthy

We changed our image. At least when we ran out on the field or broke the huddle, we would look like winners.
Hayden Fry

I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children.
Diane von Furstenberg

It was a pretty rough neighborhood where I grew up The really tough places were over around Third Avenue where it ran into the Harlem River, but we weren't far away.
Norman Rockwell

Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.
Al Franken

I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it.
Don Johnson

I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun.
Tim Robbins

The debt they ran up in the first year of the Obama administration is bigger than the last four years of the Bush combined.
Mitch McConnell

I ran into Ellen at a photo shoot. She took my breath away. That had never happened to me in my life.
Portia de Rossi

I ran around with the other youngsters, hunting, fishing and raising tadpoles and all the rest.
DeForest Kelley

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Ran Translations

ran in German is lief, lief, gelaufen, liefen
ran in Italian is corsi

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