How to Use race in a Sentence

race

1 of 2 noun

• The dog raced ahead of me.
• The flood raced through the valley.
• I'll race you to see who gets there first.
• Eight horses will race for the cup.
• She races cars for a living.
• The truck's engine was racing.
• That horse will never race again.
• They raced each other home.
• She's going to race the champion.
• The poll showed LaRose in the tightest race with Brown.
  — cleveland, 19 July 2023
• Caden Foster ran the race in 4:40 to win the men’s race.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 23 Aug. 2023
• Biden was expected to face a tight 2024 race in the state even before the war.
  — Aamer Madhani, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2023
• On race day, the event could start any time between midnight and noon.
  — George Ramsay, CNN, 6 Apr. 2024
• Could that be game, set, match on the 2024 Best Actress Oscar race?
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 20 June 2023
• The manager will talk to Betts, who has slipped in the MVP race, about playing two.
  — Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2023
• The video shows the man, otherwise dressed in black, race into the store with his gun pointed.
  — Brie Stimson, Fox News, 27 Jan. 2024
• The death last month has been a lightning rod on issues of mental health, crime and race.
  — Doha Madani, NBC News, 15 June 2023
• Kate and William stood together during the event and shared a chat as the horse race meeting went on.
  — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 23 June 2023
• Together, the two race against time to reveal who is a songbird and who is a snake.
  — Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Nov. 2023
• Four more states are holding races on March 12, and five more follow that on March 19.
  — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 15 Jan. 2024
• The victory advanced the Wave a few spots in the league’s crowded playoff race.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2023
• The most important Rams race this season might not be a climb to the top, but a sprint toward the bottom.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2023
• The following year, Kaplan’s car took second in the same 12-hour race.
  — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 22 Sep. 2023
• After the big race, Caruth thanked his parents for supporting his love for the sport.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 4 Mar. 2024
• With the tea race, the core technology itself—the clipper ship—was short-lived.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 20 Feb. 2024
• Walker, at one point a frontrunner in his race, ran for about two months.
  — Journal Sentinel, 4 Mar. 2024
• Late last month, the princess turned up to the F1 Grand Prix race in Monaco sans her signature platinum blonde crop.
  — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 13 June 2023
• With Trump and Biden in a dead heat in general election polls, the 2024 race could come down to just a few electoral votes in key states.
  — Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2024
• The project had not even started shooting so making that date would have been either a race or a non-starter.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 June 2023
• Just finishing the brutal race in the Ranger’s first year would be a victory.
  — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 14 June 2023

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race

2 of 2 verb

• The girls raced to the door and knocked, but got no answer.
  — Kyani Reid, NBC News, 8 Oct. 2023
• There’s more to the open-top speed demon than the man who raced it, though.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 5 Dec. 2023
• Alper, 25, jumped into her car and raced to the main road.
  — Isabel Debre, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2023
• When the fires raced into Slave Lake, the winds at their head were clocked at 125.
  — David Wallace-Wells, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2023
• With a flurry of 3-pointers, the Warriors raced out to a 17-5 lead.
  — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 11 May 2023
• Forte is set to race this weekend and is one of the favorites to win the Belmont Stakes.
  — Majlie De Puy Kamp, CNN, 10 June 2023
• DeJean raced down the field and wound up in the end zone to the dismay of the home Minnesota crowd.
  — Scott Thompson, Fox News, 22 Oct. 2023
• Barry scooped up the ball and raced 43 yards for the touchdown with 33 seconds left in the first half.
  — Rick Hoff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2023
• The defense of Tatis, meanwhile, has raced forward in a short time.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 June 2023
• Moments later swarms of boats and the Coast Guard are seen racing to the crash site.
  — Ramon Padilla, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2024
• Skies clear in the afternoon as strong northwest winds race over the area.
  — David Streit, Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2023
• So, for years, Trump's life here continued as the city raced on around him.
  — Matt Sedensky, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Apr. 2023
• So, for years, Trump’s life here continued as the city raced on around him.
  — Matt Sedensky, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2023
• There were pony rides, a petting zoo and the chance for kids to race rubber duckies.
  — Eileen Ogintz, Chicago Tribune, 27 July 2023
• The chain racing around the bar will eventually create a small burr on the edge of the groove that the chain runs in.
  — Joe Truini, Popular Mechanics, 10 July 2023
• The group chatted, catching up on gossip, as the kids raced between the river and the sea.
  — Mya Guarnieri, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2024
• The gang races their competitors for footage of the president.
  — Amy Nicholson, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2024
• Karl and Grace came running into the living room, racing to the garage to fight for the front seat.
  — Demetrius Freeman, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2023
• One of the biggest surprises of the day came in the 1600 boys race in Division II.
  — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 29 May 2023
• My mind raced, cycling through a rogue’s gallery of suspects.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2023
• The cars, street racing at nearly 40 miles an hour over the speed limit, killed Banks and three of her sons.
  — Jim Axelrod, CBS News, 9 July 2023
• Spainhouer raced to the scene and arrived before the first responders.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 7 May 2023
• Most of those homes were burned not by forest fires, but by fires racing through grass and shrubs.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2024
• But the risks involved in offering help raced through his mind.
  — Rosa Flores, CNN, 29 Mar. 2024
• Backpack is one of the parties racing to fill the hole FTX left behind.
  — Joel Khalili, WIRED, 21 Dec. 2023
• Of the five challenges there's one based on Prometheus, where contestants race to pick up a staff of fire first.
  — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 16 Feb. 2023
• Over the course of the weekend, the competing cars will race past the iconic buildings on the famed Las Vegas Strip.
  — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 18 Nov. 2023
• But rightfielder Nolan Jones raced back against the wall in front of the Sox bullpen and hauled in a potential two-run homer.
  — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2023
• The duo said the race was a fun, unique opportunity to race against friends and peers in a smaller field.
  — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2023
• Reddick has won three of the last five road course races on the Cup schedule, emerging as the best road racer in the Next Gen car.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 11 June 2023

Last Updated: 9 May 2024