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Meanings of runaway in English
How far can you journey when daydreaming? Pretty far it seems. Throw in homework and a balloon, and you never know the places you’ll go.
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Usage of runaway in English
1
There is a great risk of runaway wildfires under the current conditions.
2
Eventually the runaway must land in the arms of the mounted police.
3
No doubt in pursuit of a runaway; perhaps with those terrible dogs.
4
Much more still needs to be done to curb runaway sentence inflation.
5
Chadwick had worked with the FBI on runaway cases a few times.
6
China, for now, has the ability to cap runaway rare earth prices.
7
Schiller said he wasn't surprised the Obama posters were a runaway success.
8
The runaway slaves were usually caught in this part of the country.
9
No single strategy for prevention or cure had been a runaway success.
10
No police record, no history of drugs, doesn't profile as a runaway.
11
Hence his anger at the runaway match and all concerned in it.
12
Went out to lunch and saw a runaway elephant in the Strand.
13
And believe me, I have not had a runaway since last summer.
14
The runaway gondola had perhaps a hundred yards the best of it.
15
I found him in the possession of a runaway Indian, Yellow Elk.
16
She's been missing, a runaway, but I've convinced her to go home.
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Runaway through the time
Runaway across language varieties
South Africa
Common
Australia
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Ireland
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