How to Use run-on in a Sentence

run-on

adjective

• Or, rewrite the scene in a single run-on sentence, or in the future tense.
  — Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2026
• The novel’s length is daunting, but the writing is swift and eventful, often expressed in coursing run-on sentences.
  — Literary Hub, 21 Aug. 2026
• With just six 30-minute episodes per season (by design), some of these idiotic run-on stories inevitably hit the cutting room floor.
  — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026
• Find consistent waves break and white sand at Ditch Plains, views that run-on-end at Montauk Point Lighthouse, and families that roam at Hither Hills.
  — Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 July 2025
• Trump, in contrast, got free airtime from all of America’s major television networks for his Christmas commercial, which was delivered in the form of an eighteen-minute-and-thirty-three-second run-on sentence.
  — Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2025