How to Use go berserk in a Sentence
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There were tangles of tubing that looked like ear anatomy gone berserk or a brass band in deep, deep trouble.
—Eric Boodman, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2026
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Not to mention, the crowd went berserk when Tyler, The Creator popped out.
—Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 20 June 2024
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The cat went berserk, grabbing with its front claws and raking with its rear, in the way all felines use their haunches to eviscerate prey.
—Malcolm Brooks Malcolm Hillgartner Krish Seenivasan Zak Mouton, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
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If this had happened on Biden's watch, Republicans would have rightly gone berserk.
—Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025
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Then, as usually happens in science fiction, the AI goes berserk.
—John Seiler, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
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The Irishman nailed it and went berserk, running around the green and jumping into the arms of his caddie and anyone else who’d have him.
—Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 28 Sep. 2025
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The story was loosely translated into a 2023 horror movie in which the bear went berserk.
—Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 24 July 2024
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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
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When the Eva goes berserk, it’s revealed to have gnashing white teeth, a jawline that its armor previously hid and muzzled.
—Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2024
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That viral video made some fans think of Knight, who always found someone to blame for a loss other than himself and sometimes even went berserk during a win.
—Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 4 Apr. 2026
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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
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Back in Perth, Moroccan players and coaches went berserk, hugging, screaming, wiping away rivers of tears.
—Sean Gregory, Time, 3 Aug. 2023
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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
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As the arena goal horn blared and the fans went berserk, Ovechkin swung his arms into the air and collided with the boards as his teammates cleared the bench to celebrate with him.
—Jacob Lev, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
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The song’s rumbling bass shook the room as the crowd went berserk and phones launched into the air, capturing the whole thing for the feeds where Esdeekid’s music, so far, has thrived.
—Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 7 Feb. 2026
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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
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This Southern Gothic looks at a crime family gone berserk, in The Godfather way.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
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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
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Black widows, con women, demented doctors and even a guy going berserk in his underwear make for an engaging rogues’ gallery for Frank and his folksy colleagues to face down.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 10 Oct. 2025
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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
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California may have dominated the freaky weather news in most of 2023, but Utah is where winter truly went berserk.
—Tim Neville, Travel + Leisure, 29 Dec. 2023
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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
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As the Beautiful Freaks quintet goes berserk, one guitarist rubbing her instrument neck across front-row faithful to muster true fan-feedback, mid-yard a woman opens wings of electric light.
—Matt Thompson, SPIN, 18 Oct. 2024
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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
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People have gone berserk with green screens, like SkepticalPickle’s hallucinatory haze of a video where her nails and makeup morph into neon cyclones and every sound drips with reverb.
—Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 12 Mar. 2025
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