How to Use run rampant in a Sentence

run rampant

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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
• There was not enough food, and disease began to run rampant as well.
  — Big Think, 28 Nov. 2025
• Rumors about the health of King Charles have run rampant over the last few weeks.
  — Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 16 May 2025
• Extreme heat has run rampant across several parts of the world in recent weeks.
  — Dan Stillman, Washington Post, 27 June 2023
• 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
• They’re designed for warmer weather where bugs run rampant during the hunting season.
  — Christopher Murray May Earn A Commission If You Buy Through Our Referral Links. This Content Was Created By A Team That Works Independently From The Fox Newsroom., FOXNews.com, 22 Aug. 2025
• The Jazz can justify keeping him, as rumors again run rampant.
  — Bobby Krivitsky, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
• The language of war has run rampant among far-right influencers since Kirk’s shooting.
  — Chad De Guzman, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
• Watt may not even end up being on the trade market, but the rumors and speculation have run rampant.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Apr. 2025
• Even with Achane a little bit banged up, the Dolphins could still run rampant on this defense.
  — Miami Herald, 14 Dec. 2025
• Crypto and phishing scams also run rampant on the microblogging site.
  — Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 2 Apr. 2026
• The mind is a terrible thing to waste, and in the horror sci-fi film Black Box, mind games run rampant.
  — Johnny Loftus, EW.com, 24 Sep. 2022
• Now, trolling is a fact of life and disinformation and extremism run rampant.
  — Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 5 Aug. 2021
• Waste, fraud, and abuse run rampant in this agency and American taxpayers shouldn't have to fund it.
  — Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 May 2025
• 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
• 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
• The deserted landscape could create a vacuum in which crime, violence and open drug use run rampant.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 23 June 2021
• 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
• Speculation has run rampant in some corners of the internet that this could be it for the Hall of Fame coach.
  — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 10 Mar. 2026
• However, in the wake of Combs’ arrest, questions about Combs and anyone in his orbit have run rampant.
  — Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2024
• Last year, Kennedy proposed allowing bird flu to run rampant on the nation’s poultry farms, so as to kill off all the weakest chickens.
  — Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 22 Feb. 2026
• 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
• 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
• The Jets have not specified where Rodgers was, prompting speculation to run rampant.
  — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 17 June 2024
• Rumor has it that nepotism has run rampant in the NBA at the ownership/front office level.
  — Essence, 2 July 2024
• Fraudsters run rampant in the e-commerce, payments and cypto space, for example, when there is more opportunity to do so.
  — Sanjeev Menon, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
• The rumor that Michele secretly can't read, which dates back to 2017, has run rampant on the internet.
  — Melina Khan, USA Today, 8 May 2025
• But even when controlling for inflation - which has run rampant recently - the price of college in Alabama has still gone up.
  — Ramsey Archibald | [email protected], al, 4 Sep. 2022
• 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
• 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