How to Use berserk in a Sentence

berserk

1 of 2 noun

• And here’s where Di Modica’s story goes from plucky to over-the-top berserk.
  — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 26 Feb. 2021
• And before racists see this and go all berserk … These books are not really the man’s better work.
  — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 2 Mar. 2021
• The minute even a small fraction of what those border towns deal with every day is brought to their front door, they all of a sudden go berserk.
  — CBS News, 18 Sep. 2022
• The crowd—screaming at first for Nadal, then for Medvedev, and then for the sheer release from tension that screaming might bring—had grown just this side of berserk.
  — Gerald Marzorati, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2019
• Jazz make some inexplicable mistakes, can’t get enough stops late, as the Mavs go berserk from the 3-point line to tie the series at one game apiece.
  — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Apr. 2022
• Good liars, after all, can cover up tics, while nervous truth-tellers might set the machine berserk.
  — Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2021
• After the surreal opener, her film takes off like an Aston Martin, zigzagging from one berserk scene to the next.
  — New York Times, 9 Jan. 2021
• The film, however, goes its own way with some usefully berserk imagery.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 29 Oct. 2020
• But it's followed by a spectacularly berserk, grotesque and visceral fifth episode sure to spawn a year of think pieces.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Aug. 2020
• But other, less berserk players make strong impressions this week two.
  — Sean T. Collins, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2022
• Last week, everyone went berserk over a three-cylinder Toyota.
  — Clifford Atiyeh, Car and Driver, 6 Apr. 2022
• This is not a proposal for some Fourth of July-gone-berserk rah-rah display of uber-patriotism.
  — David Gutman, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Feb. 2020
• The berserk has returned to the public square, more extreme than ever, in a guise that seems new and yet also recalls earlier intrusions.
  — George Packer, The Atlantic, 18 Apr. 2020
• Terance Mann went berserk, as has been repeatedly noted, and that had not exactly been his forte.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 July 2021
• When his wife Kathy is the victim of a bombing (justice for Kathy Stabler; no character ever deserves to spend this much time in a neck brace!), Stabler goes berserk.
  — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 2 Apr. 2021
• In an extended flashback scene, Peele shows us how the animal went berserk on set, attacking cast members.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 24 July 2022
• Our group dinners became smaller, berserk with laughter.
  — Sylvia Poggioli, The New York Review of Books, 29 Mar. 2020
• Many of them—Laing’s included—succeed admirably in capturing the contemporary berserk, though the cost, in artistic terms, can be steep.
  — Giles Harvey, The New York Review of Books, 19 Oct. 2022
• The movie has a comedic plot about a couple driving each other berserk in their London home during coronavirus confinement.
  — John Jurgensen, WSJ, 15 Jan. 2021
• There’s no evidence to suggest that the bear went berserk after overdosing, as the trailer, which went viral in December, shows.
  — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2023
• After inflicting 40 minutes of stressful backstage drama on audiences, Noé lets the whole film-within-a-film go berserk.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 4 May 2022
• Cold digits may be explained because our blood is in our legs, poor circulation or, possibly, Raynaud’s Syndrome, where the body goes berserk when exposed to the cold due to constrained blood flow to the extremities.
  — Adam Chase, Outside Online, 23 Dec. 2019
• But this is far from the berserk artistry of Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge, another jukebox musical that successfully reinvigorated an old tale.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 1 Sep. 2021
• In this line of thinking, the freedom that everyone feels is attributed to something far more elevated than people going berserk after months spent indoors.
  — New York Times, 21 Sep. 2021
• Sustainability as a concept in the tech sphere has gone through berserk levels of honing, enlargement, modernization and improvement.
  — Dharmesh Acharya, Forbes, 26 Aug. 2022
• By his own admission, instigator Rijkaard had gone 'berserk' and later apologised.
  — SI.com, 6 May 2018
• And here’s where Di Modica’s story goes from plucky to over-the-top berserk.
  — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 26 Feb. 2021
• And before racists see this and go all berserk … These books are not really the man’s better work.
  — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 2 Mar. 2021
• The minute even a small fraction of what those border towns deal with every day is brought to their front door, they all of a sudden go berserk.
  — CBS News, 18 Sep. 2022
• The crowd—screaming at first for Nadal, then for Medvedev, and then for the sheer release from tension that screaming might bring—had grown just this side of berserk.
  — Gerald Marzorati, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2019

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berserk

2 of 2 adjective

• While stopped at the light, two cars pulled up and boxed her in, and a berserk man exited one of the cars, yelling at her.
  — cleveland.com, 17 July 2019
• In this regular season, the 49ers won in Seattle, but lost to the Seahawks at Levi’s, which was packed with berserk fans.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 8 Jan. 2020
• Straight up, the flesh-and-bones missile writhes and contorts – a berserk mosh pit of one – before crashing back to its wet hunting grounds.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 2019
• In the past few years, the disease had spread with a kind of berserk enthusiasm from Bradshaw’s prostate to his lungs and into his bone marrow.
  — Katie Engelhart, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2021
• That is, these candidate vaccines seemed to prompt berserk immune responses that caused lung damage in monkeys and liver damage in ferrets.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 1 May 2020
• There are a couple of nifty Rube Goldbergian action sequences — one with a bank vault, the other with a guillotine — that recall the berserk inventiveness of Gore Verbinski, the original director.
  — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 25 May 2017
• Paid Off is mordantly humorous television entertainment that serves as a queasy reminder that America’s leaders have saddled the younger generation with the weight of education debt combined with curiously slow-growing wages and berserk politics.
  — Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, 12 July 2018
• Researchers have widely hypothesized that infectious agents—like viruses—trigger berserk immune responses in certain children with genetic predispositions.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 14 May 2020
• While stopped at the light, two cars pulled up and boxed her in, and a berserk man exited one of the cars, yelling at her.
  — cleveland.com, 17 July 2019
• In this regular season, the 49ers won in Seattle, but lost to the Seahawks at Levi’s, which was packed with berserk fans.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 8 Jan. 2020
• Straight up, the flesh-and-bones missile writhes and contorts – a berserk mosh pit of one – before crashing back to its wet hunting grounds.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 2019
• In the past few years, the disease had spread with a kind of berserk enthusiasm from Bradshaw’s prostate to his lungs and into his bone marrow.
  — Katie Engelhart, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2021
• That is, these candidate vaccines seemed to prompt berserk immune responses that caused lung damage in monkeys and liver damage in ferrets.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 1 May 2020
• There are a couple of nifty Rube Goldbergian action sequences — one with a bank vault, the other with a guillotine — that recall the berserk inventiveness of Gore Verbinski, the original director.
  — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 25 May 2017
• Paid Off is mordantly humorous television entertainment that serves as a queasy reminder that America’s leaders have saddled the younger generation with the weight of education debt combined with curiously slow-growing wages and berserk politics.
  — Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, 12 July 2018
• Researchers have widely hypothesized that infectious agents—like viruses—trigger berserk immune responses in certain children with genetic predispositions.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 14 May 2020

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