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ran along

ran along is the simple past of run along.

Meaning of run along

Verb

run along (third-person singular simple present runs along, present participle running along, simple past ran along, past participle run along)

  1. To leave; to make one's way somewhere else.
    • Well, I must be running along now or I'll be late for supper.

Questions about ran along

What is ran along the simple past of?
Ran along is the simple past of run along.

Words near ran along in the dictionary

  1. ran afoul of
  2. ran after
  3. ran against
  4. ran aground
  5. ran ahead
  6. ran along
  7. ran amok
  8. ran amuck
  9. ran an errand
  10. ran and gunned
  11. ran and repeated

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ran along (page history and authors); run along (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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