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Definition of runaway in English: runawaynoun ˈrʌnəweɪˈrənəˌweɪ 1A person who has run away, especially from their family or an institution. Example sentencesExamples - He recreates the 1960s in this true-life tale of a teenage runaway's audacious trail of trickery.
- The mother of one of the runaway teenage Hampshire sweethearts has herself vanished, the Daily Echo can reveal.
- Strict rules for dealing with teenage runaways in Manchester are ready for launch - three years after a 15-year-old died on a freezing city street after taking heroin.
- Status offense charges served not only as a legal justification to apprehend runaways and to discipline boys who refused to go to school, but also to give the police a means to impose an informal curfew.
- Some are in foster care, some are runaways, others are from low-income families.
- The number of adults who desert their families is sharply increasing, while that of teenage runaways is steadily decreasing.
- It also showed that more than a third of young people had no help while away from home, while highlighting measures aimed at improving services for families affected by a runaway member.
- In the eighth century BC there must have been lots of large villages in the Central Mediterranean populated by refugees and runaways.
- These include a national network of refuges for young runaways, family mediation services to help families in crisis and child protection reform to improve protection for older children.
- When not rolling along at five miles an hour, Alvin encounters a number of strangers, from a teenage runaway to a fellow Second World War veteran.
- A teenage runaway finds herself on the road to perdition after she gets involved in crime.
- Except for one mentally disabled girl, these girls did not differ from other runaways in family background or other factors.
- Two teenage runaways who turned up sleeping rough in North Yorkshire have declared their love for each other.
- How ironic that in this family, the runaway in question is a parent, not some rebellious teenager.
- Amanda is the teenage runaway, eking out a desperate existence on the margins of society, amidst the detritus of the contemporary Wasteland.
- As a teenage runaway, Leroy's writing talent was discovered by a competent therapist whose encouragement led him to publish.
- When she realizes the hitch-hiking boy is a runaway who's been severely beaten, her caring for him brings into focus the future course of her life.
- They noted that many runaways were from dysfunctional families with little social support available and often times will search for a better life.
- The Children's Society is calling for all local councils to put into place guidance on young runaways, to provide safe emergency accommodation and to provide family mediation.
- The contrast between runaways and filial daughters in family composition and financial conditions indicates a likelihood that the girls' motives for entering prostitution varied according to family conditions.
Synonyms fugitive, escaper, escapee refugee truant absconder, deserter archaic runagate 2often as modifier An animal or vehicle that is running out of control. Example sentencesExamples - He added the team investigating the Cumbria accident had been informed about it and other runaway train cases.
- Four men were killed when a runaway rail wagon crashed into a group of workers on the West Coast Main Line at Tebay in Cumbria.
- THE M5 in Gloucestershire was closed on Saturday afternoon because a runaway horse was galloping the wrong way down the southbound carriageway.
- Though he's been talking about other people's albums with all the restraint of a runaway train, analysing his own work is a different proposition entirely.
- He immediately took another mare in search of the runaway horse.
- You'll laugh just as much at the elevator scene as you'll gasp at the runaway train sequence.
- In the 1830s and 40s railway mania charged across the country like a runaway train, and he was up at the front blowing the whistle.
- On a more mundane level, dealing with dangerous dogs and runaway horses was an important and recurring feature of police work.
- A typical question involves watching a runaway train carriage hurtling towards five people who will die unless you drop a heavy object in its path and derail it.
- As for the reason, she says she lost her leg as a child to a runaway horse and an overturned carriage.
- A probe began today into the deaths of four railway workers killed by a runaway train wagon on the West Coast mainline in Cumbria.
- As one of the astronauts described it, it's like being on a runaway freight train.
- I was returning from high school one day and a runaway horse with a bridle on sped past a group of us into a farmer's yard, looking for a drink of water.
- They are mysteriously injured in the tunnel by a runaway police horse.
- The soldiers had only just dismounted and stopped the runaway horse by the time he arrived on the scene, and the animal was still shuffling nervously.
- The tour bus had been hit on the side by the runaway vehicle, and a Mercedes Benz also took some of the impact.
- He was replaced for ten episodes when he was injured saving two child actors from a runaway horse.
- In June 2003, a runaway train on the same line derailed in Commerce, destroying two homes and injuring 13 people.
- In April 2002, she had to hide behind a tree to escape a runaway horse running towards her.
- Add in a deserted docks scene with a bunch of cowering, villainous longshoremen, a runaway train and the inexplicable appearance of bats.
Synonyms out of control, escaped, loose, on the loose riderless - 2.1as modifier Denoting something happening or done very quickly, easily, or uncontrollably.
the runaway success of the book Example sentencesExamples - These common influences create the problem of endogeneity or selection, which may explain the influence of social control on runaway risk.
- But the garden ornaments were a runaway success and are being sold at this year's major garden shows, including the BBC Gardeners' World Live show.
- Whether you prefer to use Blax or Bungees to create your ponies, they will add another element of control to runaway tresses.
- I can't see that being a runaway success, but stranger things have happened.
- This is why efforts since last year to control runaway growth have not succeeded.
- The stark and simple truth is that we need to re-assert public control on the runaway consumption of Ireland's main recreational drug.
- Think about why the SSIAs were introduced in the first place: to act as a cooler to control a runaway economy, to damp down inflation, and to encourage saving.
- Riverdance, in its 11 th year, has proved a runaway success since it began as the interval act at the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest.
- The Lula administration insists that the pension plan is necessary to control the runaway costs of the public sector.
- Firstly, there is a chronic housing shortage which has been in part responsible for the runaway property price inflation of recent years.
- His eyes closed as he held his breath, trying to regain control of his runaway thoughts.
- Children's literature, too, is in resurgence in Scotland with a host of authors, the runaway success of the Itchy Coo series, and most recently the launch of BRAW.
- The fund's argument in the case of Brazil and Russia was that if the currency was devalued, the result would be runaway inflation.
- Police launched a major operation to target the tearaways - and their project has been hailed a runaway success cutting crime and nuisance by up to 84 per cent.
- In the mid-1980s Medicare began looking to ‘managed care’ to help control its runaway expenditure.
- The campaign began in 1979, when runaway inflation engulfed the economy.
- All of this was based on tales he'd heard, and some of them were clearly situations that could not have happened in the Yukon, but they were a runaway success.
- What is it going to take to get the Government and the Opposition to work together to bring runaway crime under control?
- The inability of the government and various state agencies to control runaway expenditure on infrastructure projects is shocking.
- Now comes the hard work - following through on his promises and bringing California's runaway deficit under control.
Synonyms easy, effortless informal as easy as pie rampant, out of control, uncontrolled, unchecked, unbridled, unsuppressed
Definition of runaway in US English: runawaynounˈrənəˌweɪˈrənəˌwā 1A person who has run away, especially from their family or an institution. Example sentencesExamples - The mother of one of the runaway teenage Hampshire sweethearts has herself vanished, the Daily Echo can reveal.
- When she realizes the hitch-hiking boy is a runaway who's been severely beaten, her caring for him brings into focus the future course of her life.
- These include a national network of refuges for young runaways, family mediation services to help families in crisis and child protection reform to improve protection for older children.
- In the eighth century BC there must have been lots of large villages in the Central Mediterranean populated by refugees and runaways.
- The number of adults who desert their families is sharply increasing, while that of teenage runaways is steadily decreasing.
- It also showed that more than a third of young people had no help while away from home, while highlighting measures aimed at improving services for families affected by a runaway member.
- Amanda is the teenage runaway, eking out a desperate existence on the margins of society, amidst the detritus of the contemporary Wasteland.
- How ironic that in this family, the runaway in question is a parent, not some rebellious teenager.
- The contrast between runaways and filial daughters in family composition and financial conditions indicates a likelihood that the girls' motives for entering prostitution varied according to family conditions.
- The Children's Society is calling for all local councils to put into place guidance on young runaways, to provide safe emergency accommodation and to provide family mediation.
- He recreates the 1960s in this true-life tale of a teenage runaway's audacious trail of trickery.
- Some are in foster care, some are runaways, others are from low-income families.
- A teenage runaway finds herself on the road to perdition after she gets involved in crime.
- As a teenage runaway, Leroy's writing talent was discovered by a competent therapist whose encouragement led him to publish.
- Except for one mentally disabled girl, these girls did not differ from other runaways in family background or other factors.
- Status offense charges served not only as a legal justification to apprehend runaways and to discipline boys who refused to go to school, but also to give the police a means to impose an informal curfew.
- Strict rules for dealing with teenage runaways in Manchester are ready for launch - three years after a 15-year-old died on a freezing city street after taking heroin.
- When not rolling along at five miles an hour, Alvin encounters a number of strangers, from a teenage runaway to a fellow Second World War veteran.
- They noted that many runaways were from dysfunctional families with little social support available and often times will search for a better life.
- Two teenage runaways who turned up sleeping rough in North Yorkshire have declared their love for each other.
Synonyms fugitive, escaper, escapee - 1.1often as modifier An animal or vehicle that is running out of control.
Example sentencesExamples - THE M5 in Gloucestershire was closed on Saturday afternoon because a runaway horse was galloping the wrong way down the southbound carriageway.
- In April 2002, she had to hide behind a tree to escape a runaway horse running towards her.
- They are mysteriously injured in the tunnel by a runaway police horse.
- He added the team investigating the Cumbria accident had been informed about it and other runaway train cases.
- You'll laugh just as much at the elevator scene as you'll gasp at the runaway train sequence.
- In the 1830s and 40s railway mania charged across the country like a runaway train, and he was up at the front blowing the whistle.
- The soldiers had only just dismounted and stopped the runaway horse by the time he arrived on the scene, and the animal was still shuffling nervously.
- He was replaced for ten episodes when he was injured saving two child actors from a runaway horse.
- On a more mundane level, dealing with dangerous dogs and runaway horses was an important and recurring feature of police work.
- As one of the astronauts described it, it's like being on a runaway freight train.
- The tour bus had been hit on the side by the runaway vehicle, and a Mercedes Benz also took some of the impact.
- Though he's been talking about other people's albums with all the restraint of a runaway train, analysing his own work is a different proposition entirely.
- Add in a deserted docks scene with a bunch of cowering, villainous longshoremen, a runaway train and the inexplicable appearance of bats.
- As for the reason, she says she lost her leg as a child to a runaway horse and an overturned carriage.
- I was returning from high school one day and a runaway horse with a bridle on sped past a group of us into a farmer's yard, looking for a drink of water.
- A probe began today into the deaths of four railway workers killed by a runaway train wagon on the West Coast mainline in Cumbria.
- A typical question involves watching a runaway train carriage hurtling towards five people who will die unless you drop a heavy object in its path and derail it.
- Four men were killed when a runaway rail wagon crashed into a group of workers on the West Coast Main Line at Tebay in Cumbria.
- He immediately took another mare in search of the runaway horse.
- In June 2003, a runaway train on the same line derailed in Commerce, destroying two homes and injuring 13 people.
Synonyms out of control, escaped, loose, on the loose - 1.2as modifier Denoting something happening or done quickly, easily, or uncontrollably.
the runaway success of the book Example sentencesExamples - In the mid-1980s Medicare began looking to ‘managed care’ to help control its runaway expenditure.
- This is why efforts since last year to control runaway growth have not succeeded.
- The inability of the government and various state agencies to control runaway expenditure on infrastructure projects is shocking.
- The stark and simple truth is that we need to re-assert public control on the runaway consumption of Ireland's main recreational drug.
- I can't see that being a runaway success, but stranger things have happened.
- What is it going to take to get the Government and the Opposition to work together to bring runaway crime under control?
- Police launched a major operation to target the tearaways - and their project has been hailed a runaway success cutting crime and nuisance by up to 84 per cent.
- His eyes closed as he held his breath, trying to regain control of his runaway thoughts.
- These common influences create the problem of endogeneity or selection, which may explain the influence of social control on runaway risk.
- Children's literature, too, is in resurgence in Scotland with a host of authors, the runaway success of the Itchy Coo series, and most recently the launch of BRAW.
- Riverdance, in its 11 th year, has proved a runaway success since it began as the interval act at the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest.
- The fund's argument in the case of Brazil and Russia was that if the currency was devalued, the result would be runaway inflation.
- But the garden ornaments were a runaway success and are being sold at this year's major garden shows, including the BBC Gardeners' World Live show.
- Now comes the hard work - following through on his promises and bringing California's runaway deficit under control.
- Whether you prefer to use Blax or Bungees to create your ponies, they will add another element of control to runaway tresses.
- The campaign began in 1979, when runaway inflation engulfed the economy.
- Firstly, there is a chronic housing shortage which has been in part responsible for the runaway property price inflation of recent years.
- All of this was based on tales he'd heard, and some of them were clearly situations that could not have happened in the Yukon, but they were a runaway success.
- Think about why the SSIAs were introduced in the first place: to act as a cooler to control a runaway economy, to damp down inflation, and to encourage saving.
- The Lula administration insists that the pension plan is necessary to control the runaway costs of the public sector.
Synonyms easy, effortless rampant, out of control, uncontrolled, unchecked, unbridled, unsuppressed
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