of or designating something that is added or run on.
a run-on entry in a dictionary.
Prosody. (of a line of verse) having a thought that carries over to the next line, especially without a syntactical break.
run-on matter.
Automotive. after-run.
(intr) to continue without interruption
to write with linked-up characters
printing to compose text matter without indentation or paragraphing
printing
text matter composed without indenting
( as modifier )
run-on text matter
a word added at the end of a dictionary entry whose meaning can be easily inferred from the definition of the headword
( as modifier )
a run-on entry
First recorded in 1900–05; adj., noun use of verb phrase run on
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To me, when I listen, the songs feel like run-on sentences.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026
Marcy eliminates em dashes and sometimes swaps in sentences of his own, even though he knows he tends toward the run-on variety.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
England coach Steve Borthwick has responded to the Scotland loss by making three personnel changes to his run-on side, with Henry Pollock given a first Test start after seven appearances as a replacement.
From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026
Roberts, Gorsuch, and Barrett’s questioning of Katyal was far friendlier than their grilling of Sauer, who spoke in a frothy jumble of run-on sentences that was often hard to understand.
From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2025
She wished she could hear Immie’s low laugh and her run-on sentences spilling out secrets.
From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart
Their method proved efficient enough for some of the calculations to run on a personal laptop.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026
"GLM-5.2 is free to download, fine-tune, and run on an enterprise's own servers, putting pricing pressure on frontier labs at the same time that access looks shaky," AI analyst Andrew Curran noted.
From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026
After three weeks of goals, wins and buzz, the U.S. saw its dreams of a long World Cup run on home soil unmercifully crushed in a 4-1 loss to Belgium.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
Parents who stayed up to watch might be feeling a little like Labour MP for Walthamstow Stella Creasy as they headed off on the school run on Monday morning.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
‘If Saruman had heard it, he would be a hundred miles away by now, even if he had had to run on his own legs,’ said Pippin.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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