How to Use runt in a Sentence

runt

noun
  • Seen as the runt of his clan, Dek has something to prove.
    — Sergio Pereira, Space.com, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Pershan observed that this was a runt of the litter.
    — Cesar Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 June 2025
  • There’s usually a runt in every litter.
    — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 13 Dec. 2025
  • The runt’s usually weaker, smaller and can’t fight for himself.
    — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 13 Dec. 2025
  • Seek Out Small Specimens Don’t reject the runts.
    — Erica Browne Grivas, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Apr. 2026
  • For the Miami Dolphins, Zeek Biggers was that runt.
    — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 13 Dec. 2025
  • That runt is now the starting quarterback of the New England Patriots.
    — Tim Rohan, NBC news, 5 Feb. 2026
  • College football’s eternal doormat, the runt of the SEC’s original litter, had earned time in the national spotlight.
    — Quentin Corpuel, Kansas City Star, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Imagine a second straight year of Bama righting the season by beating Georgia — and then immediately losing to the SEC's longtime runt.
    — Jason Kirk, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The octopus appears to be the runt of the Megaleledonidae family, whose members are normally much larger and live in the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica.
    — CBS News, 26 May 2026
  • Schuster-Koloamatangi, who’s a native New Zealander, plays Dek, the franchise’s first Yautja protagonist, and as the runt of his Predator clan, he’s been completely written off by his father.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The first rescue comes just hours after his birth, when a justice-minded little girl named Fern Arable (Natalie Chan) intervenes to keep her farmer dad (a rather stiff Tom Everett Scott) from killing the runt he figures will never amount to anything.
    — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 1 Oct. 2025

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