run riot
Example Sentences
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Intellectual license granted, the company is allowed to run riot in a performance work that maintains a Brechtian distance between actor and role.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2025
Producer David Foster reworked it into a brooding, ultimately climactic tour de force that let Houston's voice run riot.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2024
The point of confining them was to provide the structure and tools to change — a goal that’s impossible to reach if they’re allowed to run riot.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 26, 2023
Mercifully, it ended there, but only after Butland shovelled another couple of attempts away as PSV threatened to run riot on an evening when they vanquished a few demons of their own.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2023
Ghosts of Might Be run riot in the woods, and stationery shops and messes of stars.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
