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How to use runaway in a sentence

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After all these decades, he might have forgotten most of the routine he learned as a runaway teen traveling with the carny.
More importantly, it sets the stage for a debt spiral that makes runaway credit card balances look like penny ante poker.
Early ignition or runaway pre-ignition causes higher combustion chamber temperatures that can wreck the engine.
The Sierra codex was a document written by the master historian and master of deception, Crassus Syra, a runaway from home disguised as a man.
How many Americans know that Seminole Indians and runaway black slaves formed an alliance in Florida?
Lewis Latimer, the son of runaway slaves, became an electrical engineer and invented an inexpensive process for making light bulb filaments.
Edith looked at me as if I was one of the runaway convicts of some county jail.
However, being almost poleaxed by a runaway motorbike is not usually part of an evening of entertainment.
That may sound like a recipe for pork-barrel projects and runaway spending.
But any short-term hiccups pale in comparison to the runaway freight train of disruption that is the sharing economy.
A trucker saved his workmate from being crushed to death by a runaway lorry.
I cannot be gallivanting across the high seas in constant pursuit of a runaway ship.
He watches a woman chase a runaway dog and eavesdrops on conversations even more banal than his prose.
As the series was deemed a runaway success, it was immediately commissioned again.
Only ever greater doses of Keynesian deficit spending prevented the onset of deep crisis, but at the cost of runaway inflation.
It regards lack of social control as a determinant of crime and delinquency, including runaway as an early sign.
It was inevitable that runaway property inflation would come to a halt but few anticipated asset depreciation in the housing market.
Private eye Harry Moseby is hired by a washed-up actress to find her runaway teenage daughter.
However, there is growing suspicion that the jetliner, which was carrying 179 people, may have hit an object on the runaway before the crash.
His sister Heidi is a runaway bride turned wedding planner, yet considers Steven to be a loser.
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So Uncle Wiggily got on munchie's back, and away they started after the runaway pony.
But the man proved to be a poor runaway like myself, and the one whom the hounds were after.
A man may arrest his own slave, and he may also imprison for safe-keeping the runaway slave of a friend.
She wanted to put the umbrella back by the hall tree, and tell mother all about the runaway.
A hard-mouthed animal is a very unpleasant one for a lady to ride, and is apt to degenerate into a runaway.
He neither sings a Godspeeding ode to the runaway king, nor a salutatory to the new comers.
The courtship has been written far and wide with blood-and-thunder pen, attended by lariat-throwing and runaway steeds.
I next entered the room previously occupied by the late runaway maid, and found three old dresses and a hoop skirt left by her.
The priesthood is open not to men flying the blood feud like Orestes, but only to runaway slaves.
Did you not gather that this was not only a runaway match, but a clandestine one?
Another favorite device of the white slaver for landing victims is the runaway marriage trick.
Looby's hard work rewarded Apprentice Nora Looby rode her 11th winner when partnering Carnac to a runaway win in the 1m6f handicap.
Mobily's expansion comes at a time of runaway demand for the company's wireless broadband services, thus necessitating higher bandwidth.
He was killed by a runaway trolley car in 1902 while protecting President Theodore Roosevelt in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
That was just like my runaway, all innocent acting and make-believe.
To-morrow morning I'll be searching all over the house for my runaway.
For a moment the state trooper looked after the runaway horses.
The tale involves a runaway heiress whose wealthy father is attempting to get her marriage annulled from a fortune-hunter.
Alston threw in, as you would clutch at the bit of a runaway horse.
The world welcomed me back, and I returned the compliment by sulking like the recaptured runaway I was at heart.
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