How to Use running time in a Sentence

running time

noun
Definition of running timenext
  • The 13-and-a-half-hour running time is a bit of a red flag, though.
    — Marshall Heyman, Vulture, 23 June 2021
  • And the lean running time keeps the movie a romp instead of an endurance test.
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 31 July 2020
  • Bui wasn't the only one to comment on the film's running time.
    — Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 5 Dec. 2020
  • And, for most of its nearly two-hour running time, that’s OK.
    — Hau Chu, Twin Cities, 1 Sep. 2019
  • The pace is slow, even though the running time is only 97 minutes.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 27 May 2021
  • Similar to the Fluffy, this variant has a 30-minute run time.
    — Benjamin Levin, CNN Underscored, 17 Oct. 2019
  • This isn't a DC movie where two people kiss once in a three-hour running time.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The episodes are believed to be about 90 minutes each, but the run time for the finale has not yet been confirmed.
    — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Mar. 2019
  • Given the film’s running time, the pacing of the second act was off and somewhat rushed.
    — Nicole Froio, refinery29.com, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The gift set has a run time of 16 hours, on eight discs, and includes more than three hours of extra footage that wasn’t aired on PBS.
    — oregonlive, 22 Nov. 2019
  • Yet its running time turns out to be both unhurried and unerring.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Somehow, all of that is going to fill up the three-hour running time, since Tuesday’s episode runs from 8 to 11 p.m.
    — oregonlive, 28 Sep. 2021
  • The running time has ballooned, too, from under an hour to a good 90 minutes.
    — Jason Farago, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2022
  • That puts you into two full days of run time, which was enough to get me through four days of touring without a recharge.
    — Aaron Gulley, Outside Online, 29 June 2018
  • Feature films must have a running time of more than 40 minutes.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Feature films must have a running time of over 40 minutes.
    — Caroline Brew, Variety, 8 Jan. 2024
  • With up to 60 minutes of run time on a single charge, this mower is a great pick if your lawn is up to a half an acre in size.
    — Paige Szmodis, Popular Mechanics, 17 July 2019
  • The most welcome news of all is that the running time is seventy-two minutes.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2022
  • The most daring thing is how long the sequence goes—six minutes, nearly five per cent of the movie’s running time.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2023
  • But page counts and running times work in different ways.
    — New York Times, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The new season has its strengths – Episode 7 is a high point, for example, even at its lengthy running time.
    — oregonlive, 23 May 2022
  • Ant-Man and the Wasp completes its full arc in a smooth 36, give or take, along with a comfortably digestible two-hour run time.
    — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 5 July 2018
  • The theatrical cut of Australia has a running time of two hours, 45 minutes.
    — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 June 2022
  • The theatrical cut of Australia has a running time of two hours, 45 minutes.
    — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Use your normal running time to do strength training, yoga or roll out on a foam roller.
    — Jillian Tracy, CNN Underscored, 27 Aug. 2020
  • The company said to expect about six hours of run time for general use.
    — Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, 10 Oct. 2018
  • The three-episode series sheds little light, and bulks out its running time with idle musings on fame that feel warmed over from the early 2010s.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Films that have a longer running time will be naturally favored on the list.
    — Josh Wilson, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
  • The new set tops out at 21 songs and almost one hour running time, and features guest appearances from Lil Wayne and Snoop Dogg.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 11 Sep. 2020
  • Petersen’s three-hour epic was itself a U-boat, silent and heavy and claustrophobic for much of its run time.
    — Adrian Daub, The New Republic, 19 June 2019

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