How to Use run rampant in a Sentence
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Left unchecked for the first time in years, my hormones were now free to run rampant.
—Sarah Levy, Vogue, 18 Mar. 2022
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The virus has run rampant in prisons around the country.
—Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 7 Dec. 2020
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Hoover was slow to see that the Kremlin’s spies had run rampant in the United States since the early 1930s.
—Tim Weiner, The New Republic, 27 Mar. 2023
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It’s run rampant on the internet over the last couple of days.
—Michael Sykes, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2022
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The mind is a terrible thing to waste, and in the horror sci-fi film Black Box, mind games run rampant.
—EW.com, 19 Dec. 2023
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Extreme heat has run rampant across several parts of the world in recent weeks.
—Dan Stillman, Washington Post, 27 June 2023
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This is much more harmful than protests on ivy league campuses, but this is allowed to run rampant?
—Will Oremus, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
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Other countries may have given up and allowed the virus to run rampant, but China is made of sterner stuff.
—Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 28 Nov. 2022
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In the series, the corrupt outnumber the good as criminals run rampant and law-abiding citizens live in a constant state of fear in Gotham City.
—Denise Petski, Deadline, 20 June 2024
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Yet, clear inaction by ICE and its (for-profit) subcontractors has allowed the virus to run rampant.
—Eli M. Cahan, Scientific American, 26 Feb. 2021
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Now, trolling is a fact of life and disinformation and extremism run rampant.
—Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 5 Aug. 2021
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Schools shut down, stay at home orders were put in place, meaning personal and economic stress and substance abuse would run rampant.
—Sydney Odman, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Apr. 2022
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The Jets have not specified where Rodgers was, prompting speculation to run rampant.
—Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 17 June 2024
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The Kia Boyz and other car thieves have run rampant, breaking into and stealing vehicles at ever-increasing rates across the city.
—Molly Walsh | Mwalsh@cleveland.com, cleveland, 30 July 2023
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As for the next Black Panther, expectations have run rampant since Boseman’s passing.
—Chris Smith, BGR, 27 Nov. 2022
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Myths and misinformation run rampant on the internet all the time these days, but never more reliably than on April 1.
—Rachel Treisman, NPR, 1 Apr. 2024
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The deserted landscape could create a vacuum in which crime, violence and open drug use run rampant.
—Jack Kelly, Forbes, 23 June 2021
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Meanwhile, predictions about how our health and genetics data could be used to divide us, as a species, have run rampant in other spaces.
—Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 30 Sep. 2021
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Humor and the cautionary tale of allowing addiction to run rampant were the lasting legacy of Chris Farley.
—George Castle, Chicago Tribune, 10 Sep. 2022
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But even when controlling for inflation - which has run rampant recently - the price of college in Alabama has still gone up.
—Ramsey Archibald | Rarchibald@al.com, al, 4 Sep. 2022
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Time seems to either slow down or speed up, recollections are suspect, and paranoia and violence run rampant.
—Becky Meloan, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2023
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Gray and Howard are just two directors who find that surprises run rampant in edit suites, including for films popping up in this year’s awards season.
—Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2022
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Without knowledge of how diseases spread, these close quarters encouraged bacteria and viruses to run rampant through the ranks.
—Rachel Lance, Time, 14 Aug. 2021
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Will Enola Holmes 2 play out as well as the original — especially as fourth-wall-breaking heroines run rampant?
—Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2022
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The planet continues to experience a massive loss in forest land as the world warms and allows severe wildfires to run rampant in regions spanning the globe.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2022
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But after war breaks out, panic and civil unrest run rampant, with the local authorities unable to stem the tide of mass hysteria.
—Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2023
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The backdrop for equities remains challenged for the year ahead as concerns about the impact of Fed policy on growth and corporate earnings run rampant.
—Isabelle Lee, Fortune, 10 Dec. 2022
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Per the official description, in the series, the corrupt outnumber the good as criminals run rampant and law-abiding citizens live in a constant state of fear in Gotham City.
—Denise Petski, Deadline, 26 June 2024
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Unchecked, climate change can run rampant—but it can also be solved by researching and employing green technologies.
—Mark Hill, Wired, 6 Jan. 2022
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Still, as with vision, if blood sugar levels are allowed to run rampant for too long, neuropathy (nerve damage) will be permanent.
—Amanda Gardner, Health, 25 Sep. 2023
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