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Example sentences for: runaway

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The sequel to the 1994 smash hit--this time set on a runaway luxury liner instead of a runaway bus--is ridiculed as an inferior knockoff.
There is a lesson here for policy-makers who hope that the public will be easily led to make modest sacrifices for the common good (or even for their individual good)--such as accepting controls on medical usage to limit the runaway costs of medical care.
It's not just USAT that puts such a high premium on sports--according to a story the Nation's Newspaper runs inside, in the annual AP poll of U.S. newspaper editors and broadcasters, the runaway number one story of the year was You Know What, but number two was the McGwire-Sosa home run race.
Christie's character (a former horror-movie star) and her husband (Nick Nolte), their marriage damaged by grief over their runaway daughter, pursue extramarital affairs and unwittingly swap partners with a younger yuppie couple.
This isn't just a runaway sport metaphor.