How to Use go berserk in a Sentence

go berserk

idiomatic phrase

• About a year ago, Myra went to start her Mercedes, only to have the car’s sensors go berserk.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2023
• The Pogues didn’t bother with the authentic trad style of the Chieftains or De Danann — more like a wedding band gone berserk.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 2023
• 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 idea was that as soon as the zero-Covid policy would be over, the Chinese households and consumers would just go berserk.
  — Michelle Toh, CNN, 11 May 2023
• The crowd has never truly been used to sitting back and watching the visitors go berserk from beyond the arc.
  — Shane Young, Forbes, 3 June 2022
• So denied, the golem went berserk, tearing down houses, throwing rocks, and wreaking havoc in the street.
  — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 11 July 2023
• 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
• Because these stocks are so small and lightly traded, a sudden surge of interest can make their prices go berserk.
  — New York Times, 18 Mar. 2021
• Back in Perth, Moroccan players and coaches went berserk, hugging, screaming, wiping away rivers of tears.
  — Sean Gregory, Time, 3 Aug. 2023
• Graves continued to go berserk on Kevin Patrick after Patrick asked a question about Elias with a seemingly obvious answer.
  — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 20 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
• Government agencies get involved, drug dealers go berserk and a rock ’n’ roll family tries to survive the increasing mayhem.
  — Liz Braswell, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2023
• Some of Terris’s characters, such as Walters and Purley, are questioning their place in a political order that’s gone berserk.
  — Alex Shephard, Washington Post, 6 June 2023
• Working to keep yourself physically fit, however, does not include license to go berserk because another ward team beat your ward team.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Mar. 2022
• Though organized across the country, the Forever Purgers’ aims seem disjointed, waging a class war, perpetuating racist ethnic cleansing, or simply looking to go berserk.
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2021
• After first herding unarmed villagers together, American soldiers go berserk, murdering babies, kids, old people, and everyone in between.
  — Matt Thompson, Spin, 10 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 1 Aug 2024