also-ran in English
This Saturday's game - and we can leave Italy out of any Six Nations equation - is a race for the also-rans , the contest for an elliptical wooden utensil, the championship's booby prize.
Use "also-ran" in a sentence
1. I also ran Dalton's financials.
2. I also ran his bank records.
3. I also ran away from home.
4. Kuwaiti women also ran major corporations.
5. The consortium also ran a training programme.
6. That guy is definitely an Also-ran—his
7. PM also ran some distance to encourage the participants.
8. IMPACTS also ran a course, attended by 43 participants.
9. The author’s son then also ran after Sparman, and Mr.
10. Becrampon Place shipment in between also ran in the lagoon
11. Hong Kong hosted the event and also ran out winners.
12. Also ran a tox screen on the horsehair from the pool
13. A shorter shuttle also ran from Chambers Street to Wall Street.
14. See Also: Also, known Also-ran Someone who is unimportant or unsuccessful
15. EARN also ran nine training sessions aimed at the Algerian research community.
16. The prisons were crowded with criminals, and prison expenditures also ran high.
17. He also ran from the HPD when they tried to question him.
18. We also ran the analysis twice, once for men and once for women.
19. She also ran in the Dublin Marathon that year, coming in fourth place.
20. She also ran a consulting company dealing in corporate governance and regulatory matters.
21. These trains mostly ran to and from Pirna, but some also ran to Altenberg.
22. Origin of also-ran The phrase comes from the world of horse race betting wherein lists of winners would be published with all non-paying positions printed in a block under the heading 'Also ran:'.
23. The InterRegio service between Cologne and Leipzig also ran until the mid-1990s through Oebisfelde.
24. The league also ran two cup competitions: the Southern League Cup and the Summer Cup.
25. The course of India’s centuries-old route to South East Asia also ran through Singapore.
26. He also ran three races for Kevin Harvick Incorporated with help from Andy Petree Racing.
27. A colporteur (full-time minister), Charalampos Beratis, also ran into opposition on Corfu about 1923.
28. The family also ran a vineyard in Oppenheim, which exists under different ownership until today.
29. Several industry associations and public authorities also ran information campaigns targeting their respective members or territories.
30. He also ran the famous Cotton Club and was a leading boxing promoter in the 1930s.
31. In 2006, the Warm Homes project also ran seven community workshops in six regions across New Zealand.
32. WIPO also ran a series of international seminars on IP and development for policy makers and diplomats.
33. The complainant was married in Romania and had a child; he also ran a successful business there.
34. The difference between gold medalist and also-ran may be measured in fractions of seconds or inches.
35. The EuroCity train pair Goethe, which ran from Paris to Prague, also ran over the Thuringian Railway.
36. Readers who find political history rather tedious need not hesitate to pick up "They Also ran." This is Irving Stone, after all, the grand master of the biographical novel, whose fictional treatments of Presidents John Adams, Andrew Jackson, and Abraham Lincoln, and "Also-Ran" John C
37. Xbox also ran a competition with a top prize of a half-hour DJ set on the Xbox Live Stage at Oxegen 2009.
38. Lotto also ran a scientific outreach program called Street Science, whose aim was to get non-scientists to do original experiments outside the lab.
39. Efforts to man-rate the Titan II also ran afoul of the fact that the Air Force and not NASA was in charge of its development.
40. Now he also ran his bobcat over the Backfilled side many times even after it rained and the dirt was just moist from the light rain
41. ‘It had fangs sticking out of its upper and lower jaw, which was common enough, but no wings straddling the row of spikes that also ran, Backswept
42. "Also ran" is a story different from Tim's first book "Wannabe Distance God" One doesn't need to be a runner to enjoy this well written piece by Tim
43. His liberal views, in which he was influenced by Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, and his subsequent support for the Progressive Federal Party, also ran afoul of the conservative politics of rugby administrators.
44. Second jobs were a more common occurrence in those sepia -tinged pre-Premier League days — Neil Warnock, for example, as well as being a trained chiropodist, also ran a fruit and veg stall.
45. The also-ran to VHS in the video-format wars, Betamax was pushed by Sony as a proprietary format in 1975 before it was completely ready, in a race to get manufacturers on board
46. Also ran Lyrics: Now that I'm at the end of my line I stand at the edge of myself and look down / Guess I know that the best is behind me and the future is hard and real / The moon is rough and the
47. They Also ran: The Story of the Men Who Were Defeated for the Presidency (1943) is a non-fiction book about United States presidential candidates by American writer Irving Stone, known for his popular biographical novels of artists and intellectuals.An updated edition was published in 1966, with brief analyses of the 1944 through 1964 elections.
48. Intelligence Cross, the mount of Donnacha O'Brien, holds the same Classic engagements as Ambassadorial, and was a Group 3 winner over six furlongs last season when he also ran second in the July Stakes and third in the Richmond Stakes before finishing only ninth when upped in trip in the Breeders Cup Juvenile Turf.