NOUN
- a creek in northeastern Virginia where two battles were fought in the American Civil War
- either of two battles during the American Civil War (1861 and 1862); Confederate forces defeated the Federal army in both battles
How To Use Bull Run In A Sentence
- Four people were gored and several others sustained scrapes and cuts yesterday as large crowds of enthusiasts in the Spanish city of Pamplona ran alongside six fighting bulls in the third bull run of the annual San Fermin festival.
- Even before First Bull Run they undertook a project calculated to meet the problem.
- On the heels of the longest bull run in history, last year's down market wreaked havoc at many financial services firms.
- Manchester men, of the class who run at the aristocracy, the army, and the navy just as a bull runs at a red rag, will perhaps be very angry at our saying this; but we speak as we have found mobs at fires, and chatty fustian jackets in third class trains on the Lancashire and Yorkshire line; and, although a friend protests against the opinion, we still think that the ordinary Manchester millhand looks on his employer with about the same feelings that Mr. John Bright regards a colonel in the guards. Rides on Railways
- Instead wag a disapproving finger at the bull run in commodities.
- After liberalization and the economy's subsequent bull run, India has grown as a knowledge economy.
- The plentitude of debt and liquidity has allowed the bull run in many asset classes to linger. Times, Sunday Times
- The Confederates won the second battle of Bull Run, and the Union army failed to stop Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia from escaping after the bloody battle at Antietam Creek.
- The paintings are a historical panorama of the First Battle of Bull Run.
- Opinion polls have consistently shown that Spaniards would like bullfighting to end - some Spanish cities have already outlawed all bullfighting and bull runs.
