Sentence examples for run-on lines from inspiring English sources
"run-on lines" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to a sentence that is too long, contains too many ideas, or lacks a punctuation mark to indicate a pause or break. For example: "The sun was shining brightly in the sky and I was determined to make the most of my day so I decided to take a walk in the park but my plans changed when I ran into an old friend from college run-on lines."
(A taxi-driver in one of his run-on lines turns out to be "an Adam-ant-Evesdropper").
Rejecting rhyme as "the jingling sound of like endings," Milton prefers a measure that is not end-stopped, so that he may employ enjambment (run-on lines) with "the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another".
Matthew's is crowded and rhapsodic, its run-on lines breathlessly merging mother and brother and brother.
Run DMC perfected doggerel in 1984 ("Cool chief rocker, I don't drink vodka/But keep a microphone inside my locker"), and by 1988 the rhyme virtuoso Rakim had stretched the rules with tricky alliteration and run-on lines ("Music mixed mellow maintains to make / melodies for m.c.s, motivates the breaks").
These included run-on lines, irregular pauses and stops, and extreme variations in sentence structure and length.
The tests determined that Shakespeare's work shows consistent, countable, profile-fitting patterns, suggesting that he was a single individual, not a committee, and that he used fewer relative clauses and more hyphens, feminine endings, and run-on lines than most of the writers with whom he was compared.
Naval medical services are run on lines similar to those of the army.
Many basic drugs sell for less than a dollar a vial and are made in batches of tens of thousands of vials, run on lines that can operate up to 24 hours at a time.
And his encounters with industrialists like Alfred Mond led him to think that societies would eventually be run on lines inspired by the managerial rationalism of mass production ("Fordism") – which is why the year 2540 AD in the novel is "the Year of Our Ford 632".
Configured to run on lines in a hilly environment with speeds of up to 160 km/h, the combined installed power of its diesel engines exceeds 1,000 kW.
Everything around us, from the phones in our pockets and the cars we drive to the terminals that monitor the fluctuations of our fortunes, is governed by computer systems that run on lines of code.
