Example sentences for: runaway

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

  • Instead, he's a lone and often belated moralist, eaten up with remorse and anxiety, pushed into unsavory experimentation less by runaway curiosity than by unscrupulous corporate overlords.

  • For many, the Jews were the embodiment of this threat — Edouard Drumont’s vehemently anti-Semitic La France Juive (Jewish France) was a runaway national bestseller.

  • The girl he was spying on is the runaway niece of the elderly widow, "Cookie" Orcutt (Patricia Neal), he works for.

  • It does for the post-Bretton Woods world of currency swaps, runaway shops, and technology transfers what his earlier book did for the Fed.

  • Long before it became a state, Oklahoma was Indian territory and a haven for runaway slaves.


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