How to Use on the run in a Sentence

on the run

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  • But there’s no excuse not to lean more on the run this season.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Lucky’s on the run, but the target on her back is even bigger than before.
    — Sabrina Reed, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
  • Fraudsters on the run as highway deaths hit record lows after sweeping crackdown.
    — FOXNews.com, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Blough’s offense should lessen potential risk to Daniels by leaning more on the run.
    — David Aldridge, New York Times, 30 July 2026
  • Achane – and Jaylen Wright, for that matter – love the emphasis on the run.
    — Miami Herald, 31 July 2026
  • In each, the protagonist(s) will be sought by both police and gangsters yet will lose their own money and have to get along without any while on the run.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2026
  • In ‘Ride or Die’ and ‘Lucky,’ women are on the run but also in on the action.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2026
  • Eidleh was arrested in Mogadishu after spending four years on the run.
    — Wcco Staff, CBS News, 31 July 2026
  • The duo are forced on the run across Europe, dogged by their past, and successfully get themselves out of danger.
    — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2026
  • When a child goes missing, a vehicle is stolen, or a violent suspect is on the run, every minute matters.
    — State Rep. Greg Howard, Hartford Courant, 10 July 2026
  • As much as the Dolphins will be focused on the run as an offense, the defense should pay the same attention – if not more.
    — Miami Herald, 25 July 2026
  • But the con artist on the run, chasing freedom, never quite able to let go of the life she was born into, contains so much of the woman who raised me.
    — Marissa Stapley, PEOPLE, 7 July 2026
  • Pages handled the carom and fired the ball towards the infield, where Betts, on the run, threw to Rushing at the plate.
    — Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 18 July 2026
  • Most of the first episode gives us Lucky on the run, getting out of the hotel and out of Vegas, and across the tops of a field of big rigs.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2026
  • The Hawaiians viewed the new rules as tyrannical; those with the disease were wont to hide in the hills of the islands, forever on the run.
    — Literary Hub, 20 July 2026
  • The Slough House gang are on the run in the trailer for Slow Horses Season 6.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Attractive young thieves on the run from both the FBI and dangerous criminals.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
  • But Nickel had a solid spring, flashing a strong arm, decent accuracy and an ability to throw deftly on the run.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 21 July 2026
  • Alvin Scott has been on the run for 25 years and is considered armed and dangerous, the FBI says.
    — Dan Raby, CBS News, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The nine fugitives had collectively spent more than 50 years on the run, according to the FBI.
    — Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Efe’s Pathway Before that call, Obada’s life seemed to be perpetually on the run.
    — Sean Neumann, PEOPLE, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Beyond the Spider-Verse, which sees Miles trapped in an alternate universe and on the run while trying to save his family.
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 22 July 2026
  • Hec and Ricky are then forced to go on the run and survive in the New Zealand bush after the police enact a nationwide manhunt for the pair.
    — Abid Rahman, HollywoodReporter, 13 July 2026
  • Sochor fled Florida after the murder and remained on the run until a traffic stop in Georgia four-and-a-half years later.
    — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 14 July 2026
  • Jakarii Eason remains on the run and is wanted for kidnapping, family violence, and other charges, police say.
    — Dan Raby, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Despite the manhunt entering its sixth day, police have yet to name or provide any details about the person on the run, drawing criticism on both sides of the Atlantic.
    — Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 12 July 2026
  • Julian Dennison stars as the troubled Ricky Baker, a kid who ends up on the run with an irascible old man, played by Sam Neill.
    — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 14 July 2026
  • So, if a package came to Eunice from the John Smith account, wouldn’t there be some sort of suspicion surrounding the package from a man who is either on the run or, um, dead?
    — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 1 July 2026
  • His discreet existence ends when a bounty placed on his head thrusts him on the run with Thomas Shepard, a mysterious boy who may be Vision’s son, reincarnate.
    — ArsTechnica, 15 Aug. 2026
  • The survival horror film centers on a young couple on the run from cartel hitmen through the Sonoran Desert who take shelter with an outwardly kind older couple – who turn out to be predators of their own.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 July 2026

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