idiom · neutral
run out of time
/rʌn aʊt əv taɪm/run·out·of·TIME
speakingtask2
to have no time left to finish something
Examples
“I ran out of time and couldn't finish the exam.”
“We ran out of time for questions at the end of the presentation.”
“She nearly finished the report but ran out of time.”
Band 8 sentence
“I mismanaged the first two paragraphs and by the end I had run out of time to write a proper conclusion.”
Collocations
- completely run out of time
- run out of time during the exam
Word family
run out phrasal verbran out verb (past)running out verb (gerund)
Common mistakes
run out time→run out of time
ran out from time→ran out of time
Say it for a higher band
5no time→6not enough time→7+run out of time
Synonyms
be short on time
Easily confused
lose time
“We lost time because of the heavy traffic.”
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