[ US /ˈɹənəˌweɪ/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈʌnəwˌe‍ɪ/ ]
NOUN
  1. someone who flees from an uncongenial situation
    fugitives from the sweatshops
  2. an easy victory
ADJECTIVE
  1. completely out of control
    runaway inflation
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How To Use runaway In A Sentence

  • He was trampled to death by a runaway horse.
  • The runaway bus eventually came to a standstill when it rolled into a muddy field.
  • The contrast between runaways and filial daughters in family composition and financial conditions indicates a likelihood that the girls' motives for entering prostitution varied according to family conditions.
  • Is it because filial daughters are more bound to filial ideology than runaways?
  • Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse. 
  • They were more like colonies of runaway slaves in the Americas, and like them negotiated with the government as equals over pardons and amnesties.
  • Pentham charged forward like a runaway Rhino and, roared on by the vocal Thwaites fans, finished with a sublime dink over the keeper which defied a man of his size.
  • A man who lost his daughter eight years previously feels drawn to help a teenage runaway. Times, Sunday Times
  • This year Proactiv's licensee and distributor, Guthy-Renker, will collect roughly $800 million in revenue from the acne treatment -- its runaway bestseller. Shill Shocked
  • The runaway car careered into a bench, hitting an elderly couple.
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