amuck
Example Sentences
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They had more or less run amuck and were damming up rivers and flooding highways, filling pastures, even beginning to invade the cities.
From Literature
In “The Simpsons,” corruption runs amuck at FIFA, ultimately ending in the arrest of the vice president of world soccer’s governing body.
From Los Angeles Times
“Jordan epitomized pragmatism run amuck,” White writes, in a major understatement.
From Los Angeles Times
Giuliani went to the Mark Hotel for what he believed to be a hard-hitting interview centered on Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic when a scantily-clad Baron Cohen had run amuck.
From Fox News
A few months into 2020, capitalism is running amuck in tandem with the coronavirus, like some headless horseman galloping over dead bodies.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
