run on
Example Sentences
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“Hurricane Season” is constructed of run-on stories, thick with rumor, about the witch at its center; “Paradais” features a supposedly haunted house that serves as a sin eater for its characters.
From Los Angeles Times
These suggest a heightened attention to potential hazards, but they also evoke the joyous run-on reels of avant-garde diarists like the filmmaker Jonas Mekas.
From New York Times
Sometimes, the phrases are like run-on sentences; elsewhere, they are poetic, rhetorical, filled with pauses and hesitations.
From New York Times
This run-on sentence had 3,819 letters and created the S — or spike — protein that the coronavirus needed to infect and replicate.
From Los Angeles Times
She obviously inspired joy as much as run-on sentences.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.