run deep
Frequency: 7.580.2 per million words
Used for feelings or beliefs that exist in a strong, hidden, or continuous way.
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- In our family, loyalty runs deep.
- The resentment between the two communities runs deep.
- The divisions in the country ran deep long before the war started.
- Cultural traditions in this region run so deep that they are hard to change.
- Her feelings of betrayal still run deep, even after all these years.
- Do these political differences really run that deep?
- The belief in supernatural forces runs deep in this ancient culture.
- Because the animosity runs deep, a simple apology will not be enough.
- It will take generations to heal the wounds because the pain runs so deep.
- This suspicion runs very deep among some government members.