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/rˈənɪŋ bæk/ Listen

Running back

noun

(football) a back on the offensive team (a fullback or halfback) who tries to advance the ball by carrying it on plays from the line of scrimmage.

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... did not prevent one of the natives from running back into the city with the statement that, he had actually seen a Christian ...

— The Story of Paul Boyton - Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World • Paul Boyton

... voices instead of two, and not made the unpatriotic remark above reported.—Oh, I said, it had so much WOMAN in it,— MULIEBRITY, as well as FEMINEITY;—no self-assertion, such as free suffrage introduces into every word and movement; large, vigorous nature, running back to those huge-limbed Germans of Tacitus, but subdued by the reverential training and tuned by the kindly culture of fifty generations. Sharp business habits, a lean soil, independence, enterprise, and east winds, are not the ...

— The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes

... day Barefoot had much running back and forth to do in the house; for she was to dress Rose for the great occasion. She received many an unseen knock while she was plaiting her hair, but bore them in silence. Rose had a fine head of hair, and she was ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VIII • Various

... came running back, Ailwin was putting her cheek near the child's mouth, to feel if there was indeed no breath. She shook her head, and her eyes ran over with tears. Oliver kneeled down, and put his hand to the heart—it did not beat. He lifted the wasted arm—it ...

— The Settlers at Home • Harriet Martineau

... seem to give Mr. Briggs much satisfaction," remarked Frank. "There he is running back and forth between the store and the stack of goods we ...

— The Banner Boy Scouts Snowbound - A Tour on Skates and Iceboats • George A. Warren

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