Example sentences for: run-on

How can you use “run-on” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • An entry in US commercial dictionary parlance means every headword (that is, main entry set flush left, often in larger boldface type); every inflected form; every run-on entry (the self-evident boldface words consisting of the headword plus a productive ending like - tion , - ly , - ness , etc.); list words (those beginning with a common prefix of transparent meaning like

  • With very little effort, it is possible to utter a terrific run-on sentence like, “Put the medium-sized brass bolt--not the one with the little black top, but the other one--into the sort of oblong L-shaped part with the green paint on one end, but first make sure that you have the axle pointed towards the side with the sort of wooden handle.”

  • In all this talk about entries, it must be remembered that the (accepted) practice in counting dictionary entries in the U.S. (and becoming the standard in the U.K. as well) is to count not only headwords, or main entries, but inflected forms, variants, changes in part of speech, run-on words (like cunningly and cunningness under cunning ), and list words (like reaccuse and reacquire ), which need no definition.

  • Surely they are all pretty much alike, in so far as they are all run-on strings of characters.

  • In contrast, the T3 generation, derived by selfing of T2 plants and known by run-on transcription assay to be silenced by TGS [ 27 ] , had few cop1-like seedlings and no cop1-like adult plants.


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