How to Use rampant in a Sentence

rampant

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• But back in the days when Covid was rampant, the fate of the five-song suite was up in the proverbial air.
  — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 16 Feb. 2024
• The company said rampant crime in the area forced it to shut down.
  — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 11 Apr. 2023
• In the ’70s, there was wife-swapping, and there had been rampant cheating throughout the decades.
  — Rachel Rabbit White, ELLE, 5 May 2023
• And there’s so many of those guys running rampant — Hawke: Boys.
  — Jen Yamatostaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2022
• Parlor talk is rampant over the three men rumored to be in the veepstakes' top tier: Govs.
  — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2024
• Ballots are in the mail, attack ads are rampant and canvassers are out in full force.
  — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 24 Oct. 2024
• One of the most consistent themes: higher-ups turning a blind eye to rampant abuse.
  — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2023
• The belief that lying is rampant in the digital age just doesn’t match the data.
  — Big Think, 24 June 2024
• According to the Gothamist, Avant Gardner has been dogged by concerns of rampant drug use.
  — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 3 Aug. 2023
• The rampant growth in Douglas County has put us at risk of running out of water.
  — The Denver Post, 11 Oct. 2024
• The club wasn’t providing drugs for anyone, but drugs were rampant.
  — Rachel Rabbit White, ELLE, 5 May 2023
• Unemployment was rampant in our region, and many of us felt a push to flee.
  — Sarah Stankorb, The New Republic, 1 Mar. 2023
• The city has struggled like many in recent years with homelessness, rampant drug use, and crime.
  — ABC News, 19 Nov. 2023
• In the last presidential election, the rampant spread of fake news played a big hand in Bolsonaro’s win.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 30 Sep. 2022
• Fear is rampant in the global workplace and drives many of our decisions.
  — Bonnie Low-Kramen, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2023
• Small businesses struggling with rampant crime in East San Jose are about to get some help.
  — Devan Patel, The Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2024
• But the issue has only become more perverse and rampant in the 20 years since she was rescued.
  — Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 3 Apr. 2023
• At the time, gambling was rampant, not only among fans of baseball but among players, as well.
  — David Hill, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2024
• But New York’s history is cyclical, and a generation later, rampant crime is again the talk—and the scourge—of the town.
  — Edward Kosner, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2022
• Impulse purchases at Buc-ee’s are rampant among folks of all ages.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 20 Nov. 2022
• Gasoline was scarce, power and water shortages were rampant, leading to chaos on the streets.
  — Linda Chase, Sun Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2024
• Fraud is rampant around the holidays, which means a greater likelihood of airline fraud.
  — Marisa Garcia, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• The culprit behind the declines, the researchers say, is rampant overfishing.
  — Dino Grandoni, BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2023
• They are driven out by low wages, rampant crime and food scarcity and inflation.
  — Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 10 Oct. 2022
• Anti-Catholic bigotry that was rampant in America at the time of Coyle’s slaying, Davies said.
  — Greg Garrison | , al, 11 Aug. 2023
• The measures give teeth to efforts to address the city’s open-air drug addiction crisis — and the street crime and rampant homelessness that come with it.
  — Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2024
• The gene gives them a selective advantage in places like Africa, where malaria is rampant.
  — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2023
• At the same time the rich-mom aesthetic (from Gisele Bündchen to Demi Moore), which can be summed up in white denim, has been rampant.
  — Selene Oliva, Glamour, 18 Sep. 2023
• Turns out the Falcons were missing a handful of starters and dozens of players were weakened by illness that ran rampant through the roster.
  — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2022
• Hunger there is rampant as the amount of humanitarian aid reaching the north has plummeted over the past month.
  — Melanie Lidman and Samy Magdy, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Nov 2024