How to Use runaway in a Sentence

runaway

1 of 2 noun

• All 12 members of the Pelham squad scored in the runaway.
  — al, 27 Jan. 2023
• There was one area in which Moore won in a runaway: points per drive.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2023
• But, what appeared to be a runaway turned out close, thanks to a pair of late scores from the Comets.
  — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 12 Nov. 2022
• If Nevaeh wasn’t a runaway, then what had happened to her?
  — Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 1 June 2023
• The Ragin’ Cajuns scored five runs in the top of the first and added six more in the third and four in the fourth to turn the title game into a runaway.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 15 May 2021
• Painesville police were then alerted about the runaway of McGuire.
  — Kaylee Remington, cleveland, 13 Dec. 2020
• Lord Tewksbury is a runaway with a big bounty on his head.
  — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 24 Sep. 2020
• Her husband had not appeared on the platform, hauled out as a runaway.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Jan. 2023
• McGill-Toolen had 12 different players to score in the runaway.
  — al, 21 Nov. 2022
• Earlier that day, the woman believed the dog was a runaway.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 2 Feb. 2022
• The game was a tidy affair until the ninth inning, when the Dodgers turned a 4-1 lead into a runaway with an eight-run rally.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 31 Mar. 2022
• She had been reported as a runaway and had been with Salaam for the previous three weeks.
  — Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 5 June 2021
• There were no records of Herr being listed as missing or a runaway.
  — Fox News, 26 Nov. 2020
• Wylie police are searching for a 15-year-old runaway who has not been seen since Sunday.
  — Dallas News, 27 Jan. 2021
• Each brand had the opportunity to have the spotlight as their garments hit the runaway.
  — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 10 Sep. 2023
• Neighbors was charged with one count of harboring a runaway.
  — Fox News, 17 June 2022
• With questions scattered across the roster out of spring training, they weren't supposed to win the AL Central in a runaway.
  — Tom Withers, ajc, 19 Oct. 2022
• When the officer ran her name through the system, Savannah came up as a runaway.
  — Bernice Yeung, The New Yorker, 26 July 2023
• The two teens had lived in the same house as 8-year-old Taryn Summers, who was reported as a runaway by her grandmother on April 12.
  — Steve Helling, PEOPLE.com, 30 July 2021
• That win at Congressional was a runaway from the start, with McIlroy lapping the field and winning by eight shots.
  — Arkansas Online, 20 June 2021
• Embedded in the denim used to strangle 16-year-old runaway Wendy Lee Coffield were the tiny spheres of spray paint that would take more than two decades to detect.
  — Lewis Kamb, NBC News, 3 Mar. 2023
• Michael walked barefoot to Bradley’s house, but her parents called the cops, concerned about harboring a runaway (Michael was 17).
  — Molly Langmuir, Rolling Stone, 2 Feb. 2024
• The cops largely drag their feet, writing off Jazz as just another teen runaway.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2022
• Arrest records indicate that the victim, who was referred to as a runaway, was trafficked out of the hotel.
  — Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 25 July 2023
• As white vigilantes go on a rampage, the prospect of safety for runaways lies just across the border in Mexico.
  — Alida Becker, New York Times, 5 May 2023
• The suspect had been reported as a runaway by his parents the previous day.
  — Cheryl Higley, cleveland, 6 Mar. 2021
• The Trojans blasted Auburn commitment Elliott Bray for eight runs in the opening inning and cruised to a 21-1 runaway.
  — al, 16 Mar. 2021
• At the time, many believed police brushed off the disappearances as runaways.
  — Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2023
• The humans dispatch a hunter (New Zealand star Temuera Morrison) to retrieve the runaway.
  — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2021
• With six minutes remaining, a USC lead that once seemed destined to grow into a runaway was cut to a single score.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2021

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runaway

2 of 2 adjective

• The play was a runaway success.
• Given the runaway success of the movie, could a sequel be in the works?
  — Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 26 July 2023
• The Guardians haven’t had many runaway wins this season.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 13 Aug. 2023
• That means employers are the ones bearing the risk of runaway costs.
  — David Wainer, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2023
• The runaway hype of the preseason is about to give way the cold reality of Week 1 in the NFL.
  — Usa Today Sports, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2023
• The score was his fourth of 2023, making FCC's runaway team leader.
  — The Enquirer, 23 Apr. 2023
• In the late 1960s, Covey, a runaway bride disappears off the coast of Jamaica.
  — Jaden Thompson, Variety, 2 Oct. 2023
• That was almost the extent of efforts to chip away at the runaway front-runner.
  — Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• The book became a runaway bestseller in 2019 and is now being made into a movie.
  — Leah Asmelash, CNN, 12 Feb. 2023
• Not even a leg injury that sidelined Cheli for a month down the stretch slowed down this runaway group.
  — Darren Sabedra, The Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2024
• Stranger Things is a runaway No. 1 in Nielsen’s year-end streaming rankings.
  — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2023
• The weir was there to prevent the same kind of runaway erosion that would happen if water flowed over the dam itself.
  — Christopher Cox Spencer Lowell, New York Times, 22 June 2023
• The streak continues for Hazel Green after the runaway Area 16 home win on Friday.
  — al, 23 Jan. 2023
• In one episode, Daddy Pig (Richard Ridings) is shown to be scared of heights, and a runaway caravan flies down a hill.
  — Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2024
• No injuries were reported as a result of the runaway deer.
  — Pilar Arias, Fox News, 3 Dec. 2023
• Mortgage rates are expected to be volatile for as long as the Fed has to work to pull back runaway inflation.
  — Anna Bahney, CNN, 28 Mar. 2023
• Down in the living room, the twins and their squealing girlfriends fled the naked youth, who then set off in pursuit of his runaway grandmother.
  — Werner Herzog, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
• Leisure and hospitality was the runaway leader in job creation both for the month and year-over year.
  — Andrew Moreau, Arkansas Online, 17 June 2023
• The series has become a runaway hit largely thanks to Mr. Cumming, who hosts it with campy archness.
  — Juan A. Ramírez, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2024
• Not surprisingly, Banchero is the runaway favorite to claim Rookie of the Year honors.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Mar. 2023
• With last year’s runaway inflation, though, the rent cap permitted landlords to raise rents by as much as 14.6%.
  — Jamie Goldberg, oregonlive, 24 June 2023
• This time, police caught up with her and another runaway foster child at the gas station.
  — Ed Williams, ProPublica, 7 Apr. 2023
• But unless there’s a runaway success in the mix, these films won’t offset the absence of a billion-dollar tentpole.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 28 Nov. 2023
• The basic scenario is as follows: a runaway trolley is speeding down the tracks and will hit and kill five people who are unable to move.
  — WIRED, 24 Mar. 2023
• That runaway success might have surprised some actors, but not Walsh.
  — Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 17 Feb. 2024
• In a scenario of runaway climate change and uncurbed fossil fuel use, 10 times the amount of property—$45 billion worth—is at risk each year by the end of the century.
  — Kyla Mandel, Time, 17 Aug. 2023
• Winfield left the program for a few years and worked with an organization that served runaway youths.
  — Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 30 Jan. 2023
• Hundreds of forkfuls later, the results were clear: At the bottom of the heap there were a couple of truly bad brands, and there was one clear, runaway winner.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2023
• Even the Vegas oddsmakers (yes, people bet on these things) have him as the runaway favorite.
  — Scott Phillips, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
• Instead, it’s taken at face value and becomes a runaway hit.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2024

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