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Examples of rampage in a Sentence
Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner, 20 Nov. 2023
It's been just over a month since Hamas terrorists rampaged through the kibbutz of Kfar Aza.
—Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 15 Nov. 2023
Israel launched a ground invasion after Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad fighters rampaged through southern Israel on Oct. 7, indiscriminately killing women, children, babies and the elderly.
—Adam Goldman, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
The conflict began on Oct. 7, when Hamas militants rampaged through southern Israel, killing more than 1,400 people and taking more than 230 others hostage, including at least a dozen children.
—Hajar Harb, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023
As Hamas fighters rampaged through Israeli villages outside Gaza on the morning of October 7th, killing roughly fourteen hundred people, some paused to take videos of themselves with Jewish children at Kibbutz Holit.
—David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
The terror group launched a surprise attack on Israel on October 7, rampaging through communities in southern Israel and killing as many as 1,300 Israelis in the worst attack in the country's history.
—Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 14 Oct. 2023
In May, a high school student armed with ammunition from the plant rampaged through a residential neighborhood in Farmington, N.M., killing three and injuring six.
—Ben Dooley Emily Rhyne, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023
The terrorists rampaged for hours through dozens of communities, shattering Israelis’ sense of security across the country.
—Assaf Orion, Foreign Affairs, 3 Nov. 2023
Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2023
Five people died on that day or in the immediate aftermath, and 140 police officers were assaulted.
Inside the siege: During the rampage, rioters came perilously close to penetrating the inner sanctums of the building while lawmakers were still there, including former vice president Mike Pence.
—Tom Jackman, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2023
Journal Editorial Report: Philadelphia succumbs to a rampage of looting.
—Joshua Crawford, WSJ, 7 Nov. 2023
Innocent by cheering Hamas ghastly brutality? ...vengeful rampage...
—Miles Smith Iv, National Review, 5 Nov. 2023
After Hamas’s deadly rampage on October 7, Israel was quick to compare the group to the Islamic State.
—Cole Bunzel, Foreign Affairs, 2 Nov. 2023
Card was also suspected of wounding 13 people in the shooting rampage Wednesday night in Lewiston.
—CBS News, 30 Oct. 2023
The escalation ratcheted up domestic pressure on Israel's government to secure the release of dozens of hostages seized in the Oct. 7 rampage by Hamas, when militants stormed from Gaza into nearby Israeli towns and gunned down civilians and soldiers.
—Isabel Debre, Julia Frankel and Samy Magdy The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 29 Oct. 2023
End of carousel Although the group and its leaders have faced U.S. sanctions since 1995, Treasury has announced new sanctions against a range of senior Hamas leadership officials, trying to undermine the financial flows that fueled its rampage in Israel.
—Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023
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Word History
Verb
originally Scots, probably an extension of ramp "to rage, storm about" (going back to early Scots and Middle English, "to rear up on the hind legs"), with a termination of uncertain origin — more at ramp entry 4
Note: The Scottish National Dictionary regards rampage as a blend of ramp "to rage, storm about" and rage (see rage entry 2); the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue, on the other hand, hypothesizes "perhaps ramp [the verb] + -age [the suffix -age]. As the Oxford English Dictionary, third edition, points out, the original place of stress (and concomitantly the pronunciation) are unknown.
Noun
noun derivative of rampage entry 1
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“Rampage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rampage. Accessed 30 Nov. 2023.
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