How to Use rundown in a Sentence

rundown

1 of 3 noun
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  • Here’s our rundown of the best news to come out of 2022.
    — Sabrina Weiss, WIRED, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Here's a rundown of some of the key findings from the study.
    — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 15 May 2024
  • Here's a rundown of all the Week 12 action around the NFL.
    — Richard Morin, USA TODAY, 27 Nov. 2022
  • Here's a rundown of all the Week 10 action around the NFL.
    — Jaylon Thompson, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2022
  • Here's a rundown of the cities that rank as the most expensive in the U.S.
    — Becca Stanek, The Week, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Here's a rundown of the best bites, the good bites, the forgettable bites and the bad bites.
    — Emma Balter, Chron, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Here’s a quick rundown of his thoughts with the full video above.
    — Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Here's a rundown of all the wild-card action around the NFL.
    — Jaylon Thompson, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2023
  • Be sure to check out the full rundown of the Always Pan 2.0 here.
    — Josie Howell | , al, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Here’s a quick rundown of races to look out for in March and how to sign up.
    — Chris Biderman, Sacramento Bee, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The rundown: The Rangers are running out of last-place teams to pad their record against.
    — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 10 Aug. 2023
  • While the show closed on Oct. 15, a rundown of the show is available on the gallery website.
    — Shauna Stuart | Sstuart@al.com, al, 1 Dec. 2022
  • To jog your memory, a quick rundown of the plot: The year is 2154.
    — Jamie Lauren Keiles, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Click here for the full rundown of what the Supreme Court ruling has meant so far.
    — Max Thornberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 9 July 2024
  • Justin Chang and Glenn Whipp gave a rundown on how the voting went down.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Here’s the rundown on who’s in the cast, where the series will take place, and when the new season will premiere.
    — Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 18 Jan. 2024
  • For a more detailed rundown, check out our guide on how to clean a BBQ grill.
    — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Here’s a rundown of some of the plans being floated for the endgame in Gaza and their prospects for success.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 6 June 2024
  • Here’s a complete rundown of all the Easter eggs in the music video.
    — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 10 July 2023
  • Perhaps a universal truth for all the spots on the list ahead — read on for the full rundown.
    — Lila Harron Battis, Travel + Leisure, 9 July 2024
  • Here’s the rundown of all that happened and all that was said at Halas Hall.
    — Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Here's a rundown of Christmas Eve hours for major stores across the U.S. in 2023.
    — CBS News, 24 Dec. 2023
  • For the full rundown, go to the Eastern Market website.
    — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Here’s a rundown of some of the most common questions to ask a mortgage lender.
    — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Check out our rundown of the intriguing new laptop in the video above, and read on for more.
    — PCMAG, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Here’s a quick rundown of the rules as laid out by the moderators just now.
    — WSJ, 7 Dec. 2023
  • For more Amazon deals, check out our full rundown of Prime Day kitchen deals here.
    — Noah Kaufman, Bon Appétit, 16 July 2024
  • Check out the video above for the rundown and a closer look at the systems, with more details below.
    — Matthew Buzzi, PCMAG, 20 May 2024
  • This is a list for those who choose the latter, a rundown of 10 worthwhile movies and shows now available to stream.
    — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Here’s a rundown on the nominees in all of the categories.
    — Daniel Wine, CNN, 17 July 2024
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run-down

2 of 3 adjective
  • Drug use surged, and the place grew unsafe and run-down.
    — Penelope Green, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024
  • When Burns made the film 40 years ago, New York was run-down, and the bridge was a reminder of what the city had once been.
    — James Barron, New York Times, 24 May 2023
  • Click below for a full run-down of the best camping gear must-haves.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Until, that is, its restaurants started to get run-down and the menu didn’t adapt to the times.
    — Gary Stern, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Looking back at him, across the city’s run-down high-rises, was the looming statue of Christ the Redeemer.
    — Max Bearak, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Williams had tried to get Prange out at third but Northwestern couldn’t execute a run-down.
    — Nick Alvarez | Nalvarez@al.com, al, 28 May 2023
  • Sign up for early access here, and check back next week for a full run-down on our favorite pieces of the collection and where to shop them.
    — Hannah Oh, Seventeen, 6 Mar. 2023
  • All three were one- or two-bedroom abodes that were smaller than Uribe’s townhome and appeared run-down.
    — Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • With only one month to turn his run-down Opel Manta into a projectile, the race against the clock begins.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 17 Apr. 2023
  • The first-inning damage against Cortes could have been worse, but a run-down at the plate started a cross-diamond double play.
    — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 3 Apr. 2024
  • For many readers, the chapter was just a dishy run-down of high-society women, their secrets and lies.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Clark Park, in the heart of southwest Detroit, was in disrepair, with ruts in the baseball field, a run-down rec center and a decrepit ice rink.
    — Eric Guzmán, Detroit Free Press, 4 May 2024
  • For now, a Marriott will do, a run-down Hilton, someplace there’s nothing worth stealing or being looked at.
    — John Cotter, New York Times, 20 June 2023
  • The King’s speech, opening Parliament with a run-down of legislative plans, is delivered by the monarch as well.
    — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 May 2023
  • So in January 2020, the couple bought a run-down Cayucos motor lodge called the Dolphin Inn and then spent the next two and a half years transforming it.
    — Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2024
  • Nearby was a run-down chicken coop occupied by a single hen.
    — Trip Gabriel, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023
  • The apartments are run-down: no elevators, bars on windows and squat toilets.
    — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Its version of the character lives in a run-down duplex with only a mattress on a floor, bare walls, and piles of unpacked moving boxes.
    — Vulture, 13 June 2023
  • His family was poor, at times desperately so, moving from run-down house to run-down house.
    — Clay Risen, New York Times, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The unique nail-biter takes place in the shadows of L.A.’s homeless camps, run-down motels and dark alleys, following women who have turned — for various reasons — to a life of crime.
    — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2024
  • The other, half a mile away, was a fanciful, if run-down, turreted 64-room white clapboard confection.
    — Penelope Green, New York Times, 2 May 2024
  • Here is a run-down of every Coben adaptation on Netflix, listed in order of their latest score on Rotten Tomatoes.
    — Arion McNicoll, The Week Uk, theweek, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The city is run-down, and Molly sees any improvements that the mayor—now on his sixth term—may make as cynical interventions to bolster his own power.
    — Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
  • Her shop, one of the oldest in the neighborhood, served as a time capsule of a bygone era as Navy Yard transformed from a run-down, industrial eyesore to one of the most modern and expensive parts of the District.
    — Marisa Iati, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Torres Soto’s TikTok post about one run-down bathroom at her school resonated with students at other schools.
    — Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Inside was a seedy ’30s club supported by robust arches of stone, with run-down floorboards leading to arrangements of billiard tables and Thonet chairs.
    — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Page Turner, a real estate broker and investor for 20 years, is an entrepreneur and coach for people who want to renovate run-down homes.
    — Jura Koncius, Washington Post, 10 May 2023
  • Not to mention that overindulging can leave you feeling run-down and unable to rally for another full day of family togetherness.
    — Petra Guglielmetti, Glamour, 11 Oct. 2023
  • As their name suggests, Full Circle’s bread-and-butter is restoring run-down historic properties to their full potential, and the show focuses on the house and its history.
    — Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2023
  • In the video, the girl walks around a run-down, post-apocalyptic city while listing off all the rules that parents give their children — which, typically, don’t include eating vegan.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 10 Mar. 2023
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run down

3 of 3 verb
  • Sweat ran down their faces, which were red from the sun.
    — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2023
  • Now, run down to where your home’s drainage pipe heads out to the street.
    — Ian Mount, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2022
  • The median nerve is one of the largest nerves that run down your arm.
    — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 17 Jan. 2023
  • The focus here should be on the scalp — the rest of the hair will be cleaned as the suds run down the strands, says Roszak.
    — Caitie Kelly, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2024
  • The neighbor ran down the block to alert Cao’s daughter of the attack.
    — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2023
  • Would Sabrina get in the van to school or run down the street?
    — New York Times, 1 June 2022
  • Holmes made a run down the right side, angled in and sent a low shot on goal.
    — Randy McRoberts, Baltimore Sun, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Hoover 5, Helena 1: Hoover scored three in the third to rally from a run down on the way to the win.
    — Al.com Reports, al, 26 Feb. 2022
  • The girl noticed Soto and ran down to tell the other teens.
    — Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The kids were thrilled and their teacher had tears running down her cheeks.
    — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Feb. 2024
  • Davis and Westbrook didn’t get back up, the clock left to run down without the team’s best players on the floor.
    — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2022
  • The cats have two black lines running down their foreheads and white tips to their long tails.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 1 May 2024
  • The Saints didn't convert on 3rd-and-1, didn't get a new set of downs to run down the clock … and the rest is history.
    — Charles Curtis, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2022
  • During the broadcast, the footballer ran down the field before rolling on the ground.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The zippers run down the front with lined mesh pockets on the inside to hold paint cans and things like that.
    — Melvin Backman, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
  • So, perform a hard reset rather than wait for the battery life to run down.
    — Toby Grey, BGR, 22 May 2022
  • Parents of the teenagers involved were outraged that they could’ve been run down.
    — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 29 July 2022
  • Her hair ran down her back as the wave carried her, moving the board forward the way only the ocean can.
    — Elahe Izadi, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Edgar and Mark run down the list during the latest edition of Swamp Things.
    — Orlando Sentinel, 29 July 2022
  • Trickles of sweat run down backs while beads form on foreheads.
    — Freep.com, 10 June 2022
  • Stop feeling run down and drained with just two capsules a day.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Your hamstrings consist of three long muscles that run down the back of the thigh, cross over the back of the knee, and connect to bones in that area.
    — Sarah Bence, Verywell Health, 26 July 2024
  • An Okla alley-oop slam was the dagger and Pettway and the North fans erupted as time ran down.
    — Matt Doherty, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Mar. 2023
  • Mullins suffered the right groin strain May 29 against the Cleveland Guardians while running down the first base line.
    — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 24 June 2023
  • The final score of the game came on Will Francis’ 33-yard touchdown run down his own sideline.
    — Daniel Gibel, cleveland, 4 Nov. 2022
  • The train would be elevated and run down the middle of the boulevard.
    — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2023
  • The women ran down a flight of stairs and to an office and a set of bathrooms, according to the owner.
    — Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 12 June 2024
  • Denny Hamlin runs down Chase Elliott and takes the race lead!
    — Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 7 Apr. 2024
  • The dress featured a crisp white collar with gold buttons running down the front placket of the dress.
    — Julia Teti, WWD, 27 June 2024
  • McCaffrey had a strong run down the sideline and nearly made an over-the-shoulder catch there, too.
    — Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 27 July 2024

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