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How to use run-on in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word run-on? Here are some examples.

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It took a full minute for her to interpret her run-on sentence and slurred words, before answering.
I just wanted to write that silly run-on sentence conflating all of his best-known stuff.
Unfortunately, she has not been well served by her editors, and the book is replete with minor typos, awkward phrases, and run-on sentences.
It's a bit of a run-on sentence fragment, but few taglines are closer to the truth.
My printer died and I have a hard time reading a run-on paragraph on screen.
Add to this a couple of clumsy run-on sentences, and it's not really clear what he is trying to say.
Some essays are smooth and easy reading, while others, reflect a Germanic flavor with run-on sentences and numerous subordinate clauses.
Semicolons suddenly came into fashion where there had been only run-on sentences before.
Let's work in my office on how to correct run-on sentences, which combine two or more sentences without proper punctuation.
Missing commas and run-on sentences may not be a bad thing for teenagers engaged in writing-intensive online activity, says a Purdue University English professor.
He is nothing if not lovable, a shaggy chatterbox whose run-on sentences resemble the colorful, crowded laundry lines strung between tenement windows in old photographs.
I knew that was a run-on sentence but I never said I was a English major.
Transcription rates were assayed using nuclear run-on analyses as previously described.
Individuals who use run-on sentences with no subordination, or who use only simple sentences, produce monotonous writing.
If they venture rhyme, that most conspicuous auditory technique of verse, they often play it down as well by burying it in run-on lines or substituting slant and half-rhymes.
But run-on sentences with improper punctuation, extra words, omitted words and misspellings make understanding the material harder than it should be.
The document is loaded with jargon, long paragraphs, and run-on sentences.
Toilet run-on usually means that the flush or flapper valve isn't sitting properly in the valve seat at the bottom of the tank.
Yes, I realize there's no apostrophe error in that last example, but I know a run-on sentence when I see one.
Enjambment, also called run-on, in prosody, the continuation of the sense of a phrase beyond the end of a line of verse.
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Examples from Classical Literature
I have computed the figures for The Fatal Dowry in regard to double or feminine endings and run-on lines.
In the 1742 lines of the poem, there are 47 run-on couplets and 260 run-on lines.
A run-on line should be read closely with the following line with only a slight pause to indicate the line-unit.
The rhythm of the meter is also varied by the alternating of end-stopped and run-on lines, as in the last quotation.
The chief sources of variety are substitution, pause, run-on lines, and division.
The judicious use of run-on lines is often resorted to for the purpose of avoiding monotony.
In most instances the use of run-on lines is deliberately adopted with a view to artistic effect.
The largest percentage of run-on lines probably occurs in Miltons epics.
It surrenders with a highway, the run-on sentence of the 401, your long white leg as if glued to the gas pedal.
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