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run on

[ruhn-on, -awn] / ˈrʌnˌɒn, -ˌɔn /














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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