Sentence examples for is runaway from inspiring English sources
noun
A person or animal that runs away or has run away; a person, animal, or organization that escapes limitations.
- Runaway children are vulnerable to criminal exploitation.
For one thing there is runaway inflation and a distorted exchange rate.
The track that embodies the album's restless hunger and ambition is "Runaway".
At home, the most obvious and daunting problem is runaway entitlement spending.
Many factors are contributing to the rise, but the biggest is runaway demand.
"This is runaway government at its worst," Mitch McConnell, the Senate Republican leader, said at a Tea Party news conference on Thursday about the I.R.S. scandal.
"The dangerous principle here is runaway liability in a way that would put the First Amendment in serious jeopardy," Mr. Collins said.
The cause seems to be runaway property taxes.
Then the problem appeared to be runaway inflation.
Most were free blacks, but some were runaway slaves, or the children of runaways.
But while his design ideas have frequently been runaway successes, there have also been striking failures.
An eventual result was runaway inflation and, for Burns, a legacy of failure.
