running away

Example Sentences

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"I'll flinch, I'll go to run. In my job when that alarm is hit. I'm not running away from the danger, I'm running to the danger. It's completely exhausting."

From BBC • May 13, 2026

“We were committed to keeping everything about the employees and the quality from day one. We were never interested in just taking the brand and running away with it.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026

“I was attached to this Henry Darger painting when I was writing the book. I felt like that was a really accurate visual representation of little girls running away from utter chaos,” says Cash.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026

My parents figured out early that leaving a prestigious practice for a small island wasn’t running away from something.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 5, 2026

Their faces were indistinguishable in the dark and their white outfits were muted by the lack of sunlight, but I could see that they were little boys running away from something—or someone.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall