Dictionary Entry

run away

To flee by running

In a Sentence

“The crowd had to run away from the burning structure with only the clothes on their backs.”

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Poetry examples for “run away”

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Thrice she prepared to fly, thrice she did stay,
By fear deprived of strength to run away. 70
Yet rending with enragËd thumb her tresses,

As it is here. A cough is pretty hard
To run away from. Wife and children too
Are pretty hard to leave, since thought of them

Perennial beholds us --
Myself would run away
From Him -- and Holy Ghost -- and All --

O I never thought that joys would run away from boys,
Or that boys would change their minds and forsake such summer joys;

He gobbles loud and drives the boys from play;
They throw their sticks and kick and run away.

He who can push into a midnight fray
His brave companion, and then run away,
Leaving him to be murder'd in the street,

I went my work about.
Oft-times I thought to run away;
For me it was a woeful day.

For he would be thinking of love
Till the stars had run away,
And the shadows eaten the moon.

I went my work about.
Oft-times I thought to run away;
For me it was a woeful day.