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Runoff in a sentence
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Runoff meaning
- That portion of precipitation or irrigation on an area which does not infiltrate or evaporate, but instead is discharged from the area.
- Dissolved chemicals, etc, included in such water.
- A second or further round of a competition, after other competitors (often all but the last two) have been eliminated.
Example sentences (20)
Burnett stuck with Lightfoot in round one of the mayoral sweepstakes, then backed Paul Vallas in the April 4 runoff.
Johnston and Brough were the top two vote-getters in a 16-way race in April, sending the race to Tuesday's runoff.
Paraguay doesn’t have a runoff, so whoever of the 13 candidates received the most votes would be the next president.
Residents suggest this was due to excavation occurring nearby which led to runoff pooling at the bottom of the dune.
In the runoff, the candidate who earns a majority of votes, or more than 50% of votes cast, will be named mayor.
Storm runoff washes over a roadway at Hosmer Grove in the Summit District of Haleakala National Park on Friday.
Colorado Springs mayoral runoff candidate Yemi Mobolade speaks during a debate at the Ent Center on April 24.
In 2020, when Republicans lost the presidency and the Senate twice (on Election Night and again on runoff day in Georgia).
Lake Powell had fallen to 3,519.9 feet in April before it began to surge as a result of the snowpack runoff.
Some runoff is evaporated, but much is used to cool the building’s power plant or is recirculated throughout the building.
La Spata addressed his supporters when he was 106 votes short of the 50% vote minimum to avoid a runoff.
Farmland north of High Prairie and a house were suffered flooding in April and May 2020 after a spring snow meltdown and runoff.
Donors who were reluctant to go after an incumbent mayor will be likelier to get off the sidelines in the runoff, Broy predicted.
Mr. Johnson, the third-place finisher, is expected to have a strong performance here in the runoff.
Greenways are one of sponge cities’ primary tools for controlling the volume of stormwater runoff.
Stormwater management ponds are artificial bodies of water designed to regulate stormwater runoff.
Since no candidate received a majority of the vote, a runoff will be held on Sunday, 12 February.
After none of the nine candidates reached 50% of the vote, the two leading candidates, Vallas and Johnson, headed to a runoff election.
Deprivation of runoff Some flora naturally occurring on the beach head requires fresh water runoff from the land.
By the end of the Dec. 6 Georgia Senate runoff, the Postal Service had delivered 54.4 million ballots to and from voters, officials said.
Common combinations with runoff
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the runoff 32×
- runoff election 20×
- runoff and 12×
- in runoff 11×
- runoff from 8×
- primary runoff 8×
- spring runoff 7×
- runoff in 7×
- water runoff 6×
- runoff on 6×
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