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- adjective Not susceptible to
runs . - adjective sports Without
runs (in cricket, baseball, etc.).
Etymologies
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Examples
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Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen are hyping their album "Pop" as if it were sliced bread, satellite TV, runless pantyhose and the Internet all rolled into one.
Mirror-Ball Madness 2008
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Beckett allowed three hits and a walk while striking out six in 3 2-3 runless innings.
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Jesse Litsch pitched three runless innings and the Toronto Blue Jays beat a split squad of Atlanta Braves 7-5 Friday.
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Sehwag's runless departure this morning had been a major blow to Indian morale, because they invested much hope that his late arrival might help to turn round their fortunes in what has been a troubled tour so far.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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So it proved as he contributed a 13-ball duck, making it a runless match for him from 42 deliveries in all, albeit lbw to one that might have both taken an inside edge and also cleared the stumps.
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Rookie Toronto starter Henderson Alvarez extended his runless string to 14 innings after holding the Red Sox to four hits before being removed after six innings and 95 pitches.
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The doughty Paul Collingwood hung around for more than three largely runless hours before a doosra - the ball that Murali did not invent but he did perfect - slid stealthily past his hopeful block and tickled his middle stump.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Trott finally breaks his 25-ball runless sequence with a steer off his legs for one, bringing
BBC News - Home 2010
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Two more singles are added - and as I observed at 0457, he seems more like runless, wicketless Brisbane Johnson than the unplayable Johnson of Perth.
BBC News - Home 2010
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Smith's cricketing brain, as he farmed the strike with calm confidence to limit his colleague to nine runless deliveries in 5.4 overs, while at the same time carving 29 priceless runs from
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