How to Use on the run in a Sentence

on the run

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  • Lucky’s on the run, but the target on her back is even bigger than before.
    Sabrina Reed, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
  • Blough’s offense should lessen potential risk to Daniels by leaning more on the run.
    David Aldridge, New York Times, 30 July 2026
  • Achane – and Jaylen Wright, for that matter – love the emphasis on the run.
    Miami Herald, 31 July 2026
  • In each, the protagonist(s) will be sought by both police and gangsters yet will lose their own money and have to get along without any while on the run.
    Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2026
  • In ‘Ride or Die’ and ‘Lucky,’ women are on the run but also in on the action.
    Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2026
  • The duo are forced on the run across Europe, dogged by their past, and successfully get themselves out of danger.
    Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2026
  • When a child goes missing, a vehicle is stolen, or a violent suspect is on the run, every minute matters.
    State Rep. Greg Howard, Hartford Courant, 10 July 2026
  • As much as the Dolphins will be focused on the run as an offense, the defense should pay the same attention – if not more.
    Miami Herald, 25 July 2026
  • But the con artist on the run, chasing freedom, never quite able to let go of the life she was born into, contains so much of the woman who raised me.
    Marissa Stapley, PEOPLE, 7 July 2026
  • Pages handled the carom and fired the ball towards the infield, where Betts, on the run, threw to Rushing at the plate.
    Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 18 July 2026
  • Most of the first episode gives us Lucky on the run, getting out of the hotel and out of Vegas, and across the tops of a field of big rigs.
    Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2026
  • The Hawaiians viewed the new rules as tyrannical; those with the disease were wont to hide in the hills of the islands, forever on the run.
    Literary Hub, 20 July 2026
  • Attractive young thieves on the run from both the FBI and dangerous criminals.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
  • But Nickel had a solid spring, flashing a strong arm, decent accuracy and an ability to throw deftly on the run.
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 21 July 2026
  • Beyond the Spider-Verse, which sees Miles trapped in an alternate universe and on the run while trying to save his family.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 22 July 2026
  • Hec and Ricky are then forced to go on the run and survive in the New Zealand bush after the police enact a nationwide manhunt for the pair.
    Abid Rahman, HollywoodReporter, 13 July 2026
  • Sochor fled Florida after the murder and remained on the run until a traffic stop in Georgia four-and-a-half years later.
    Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 14 July 2026
  • Despite the manhunt entering its sixth day, police have yet to name or provide any details about the person on the run, drawing criticism on both sides of the Atlantic.
    Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 12 July 2026
  • Julian Dennison stars as the troubled Ricky Baker, a kid who ends up on the run with an irascible old man, played by Sam Neill.
    Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 14 July 2026
  • So, if a package came to Eunice from the John Smith account, wouldn’t there be some sort of suspicion surrounding the package from a man who is either on the run or, um, dead?
    Erin Qualey, Vulture, 1 July 2026
  • The survival horror film centers on a young couple on the run from cartel hitmen through the Sonoran Desert who take shelter with an outwardly kind older couple – who turn out to be predators of their own.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 July 2026
  • Realizing that there was potentially a shooter on the run, Bagley reviewed surveillance footage and searched for more evidence, later finding a shoe print near the northeast side of the building.
    N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 10 July 2026
  • Then, there was Switzerland’s striker Breel Embolo, who was sent off in disgrace for diving, just when his team had Argentina on the run in the quarterfinal.
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 17 July 2026
  • The Paramount+ series picks up where the characters left off in early 2020, with Ziva reuniting with Tony and their daughter, Tali, after years spent on the run.
    Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 16 July 2026
  • Randall had been on the run and considered armed and dangerous until January, when Texas authorities notified Elk Grove police of his arrest in that state on suspicion of providing false information to federal agents.
    Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 21 July 2026
  • Richard Carapaz, dressed in the polka-dot jersey, sealed his second stage win of the race after a brutal battle with Sepp Kuss, which saw the American crash twice on the run-in to Alpe d’Huez and hand the advantage to the Ecuadorian.
    Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 25 July 2026
  • The page-to-screen adaptation of Marissa Stapley’s 2021 novel of the same name follows a con artist played by Anya Taylor-Joy who is on the run from the feds and a notorious crime boss (played by Annette Bening).
    Jaeden Pinder, Rolling Stone, 15 July 2026
  • That 13 months on the run ended Saturday when the FBI brought Delray Beach’s Escoe, a member of the agency’s Most Wanted Fraudsters list, back from Jamaica.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 26 July 2026
  • Fadel Shaker had surrendered after 12 years on the run last October, giving himself up to the Lebanese military intelligence service after hiding in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh near the port city of Sidon.
    ABC News, 8 July 2026
  • Khalid Ahmed Satary, who was indicted in 2019 in the Southern District of Florida, was arrested overseas after spending nearly three years on the run, according to the FBI.
    Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 21 July 2026

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