rampaged; rampaging
: to rush wildly about
: a course of violent, riotous, or reckless action or behavior
Examples of rampage in a Sentence
Verb
Rioters rampaged through the streets of the city.
Noun
some crazy guy went on a rampage in the public library and started grabbing books off the shelves and tossing them around
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Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 4 June 2026
Brown, who turns 29 at the end of the month, has played a rampaging style of football for a long time, so there’s got to be concern about his durability after a drop in both production and availability over the last two seasons.
—Jeff Howe, New York Times, 1 June 2026
Jeffrey Collins, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026
Duration is probably the only thing that ABC and the NBA need worry about, although there’s nothing in New York’s springtime rampage that suggests the Knicks will function as a mere speed bump on Wemby’s path to superstardom.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 3 June 2026
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Verb
Tthere’s fiddle and harmonica in the mix and the percussion covers everything from a rattling train car sound to a rampaging elephant.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 4 June 2026
Brown, who turns 29 at the end of the month, has played a rampaging style of football for a long time, so there’s got to be concern about his durability after a drop in both production and availability over the last two seasons.
—Jeff Howe, New York Times, 1 June 2026
Noun
The city with about 140,000 residents sits in the heart of the state’s oil and gas region and was near the site of a deadly shooting rampage in 2019.
—Jeffrey Collins, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026
Duration is probably the only thing that ABC and the NBA need worry about, although there’s nothing in New York’s springtime rampage that suggests the Knicks will function as a mere speed bump on Wemby’s path to superstardom.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 3 June 2026
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“Rampage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rampage. Accessed 15 Jun. 2026.
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rampage
2 of 2 noun
ram·page
ˈram-ˌpāj 
: a course of violent or reckless action or behavior
rampageously
adverb
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