run away
Example Sentences
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“They’d much rather run the risk of hiking now and having to cut later than sitting back and letting inflation run away from them,” Pantheon’s Vistesen said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
It was not the first time Larissa had run away but Karen said something was "niggling" her this time.
From BBC • May 27, 2026
Riverside County sheriff’s officials have said about 5,000 to 6,000 children run away or go missing each year in the county.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
"That kind of argument really belongs to the past," he says, noting the idea that foreign investors "have to be treated with kid gloves or they run away... no longer has much force".
From BBC • May 6, 2026
Often younger enslaved men tried to run away, or sometimes simply leave the plantation without permission—perhaps to visit a girlfriend at a nearby plantation.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
