How to Use run its course in a Sentence

run its course

idiom
Definition of run its coursenext
  • By this time of the year, much of our spring garden effort has just about run its course.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 19 July 2024
  • Succession, the last of the great antihero shows, has run its course.
    — Constance Grady, Vox, 16 June 2024
  • Typically, the virus will run its course in about two weeks.
    — Christin Perry, Parents, 19 Aug. 2023
  • The title track is a punchy kiss-off to a relationship that’s run its course.
    — Lucas Villa, SPIN, 10 June 2024
  • Political satire seems to have run its course, for the time being, at least.
    — Richard E. Vatz, Baltimore Sun, 9 Jan. 2024
  • After the initial attack, whooping cough will need to run its course, which can take months.
    — Evan Forster, Parents, 17 June 2024
  • If any or all of these seem like worthy grounds to end the friendship, then the friendship has probably run its course.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2023
  • It's been a fun rivalry, but gotta wonder if Bengals-Chiefs has run its course.
    — Jason Williams, The Enquirer, 1 Jan. 2024
  • To reduce waste, once an item has run its course with a customer, it can be brought to any GU store and placed in a donation bin.
    — Celia Shatzman, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Now, that fresh look looks to have run its course and the Lakers are popping up in trade rumors for another new look.
    — Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Even if the planning process reveals that a friendship has run its course, does the split have to be especially painful?
    — Martine Thompson, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2024
  • Powell’s response was a classic dad move: Ignore the screaming toddler and let the tantrum run its course.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Audiences could safely assume the movies’ one-note joke — a children’s toy that swears like a grown-up! — had run its course.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 11 Jan. 2024
  • But if the current litigation against him does not run its course before the election, so be it.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Asked about police abuses, Macron said justice should be allowed to run its course.
    — Time, 29 June 2023
  • Asked about police abuses, Mr. Macron said justice should be allowed to run its course.
    — Sylvie Corbet and Alex Turnbull, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 June 2023
  • The larger question is whether this Big 3 has simply run its course as an effective lead group.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • But by then, even many of those around Mr. Scott believed his candidacy had already run its course.
    — Maya King, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Mills agreed, saying that the relationship had simply run its course.
    — Glamour, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The post–World War II economic boom had run its course, and unemployment was rising.
    — John A. Lawrence, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2020
  • Simply set or schedule it through the iRobot Home app, then let the little gizmo run its course sucking up dust, dirt, and other debris.
    — Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 26 Dec. 2023
  • To the relief of untold numbers of Swifties, her fling with Healy had run its course months earlier, and now rumors were beginning to swirl about her and Kelce.
    — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Gilligan had long wanted to write a crossover episode with Cops, and by S7, Carter figured the series had likely run its course, so why not take some creative chances?
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Sep. 2023
  • So scientists have a rescue plan: load the inshore conchs into milk crates, ferry them to colonies in deep water, and let nature run its course.
    — Jenny Staletovich, Sun Sentinel, 15 July 2024
  • The cutbacks suggest the tech industry is in the middle of a wrenching adjustment that has yet to run its course and could bring more pain to the boom-and-bust industry, experts warned.
    — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2024
  • But the era of major platform acquisitions from the United States has probably run its course.
    — Ashley J. Tellis, Foreign Affairs, 1 May 2023
  • The 45-minute episode concludes with the pair, clothed and holding each other in bed, acknowledging that their relationship had run its course.
    — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 July 2023
  • Doctors say that rest, hydration, perhaps acetaminophen or ibuprofen for headache or fever — along with a big dose of patience — are all that’s needed, as the cold will run its course.
    — Maggie Scales, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Revenge is set in motion at the same time grief must run its course, with battle strategies and covert meetings intercut with gut-wrenching scenes mourning Rhaenyra’s son.
    — Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 16 June 2024
  • World oil demand continues to slow as China’s post-pandemic rebound has run its course, according to the IEA.
    — Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2024

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