amuck
Example Sentences
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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 • Jul. 24, 2024
The sheriff who let him go said that he “no longer had any confidence” in him, explaining that the agent was “running amuck in the community.”
From Slate • Jan. 31, 2020
We don’t know where the Dothraki went, or why they similarly didn’t run amuck.
From The Verge • May 20, 2019
In other words, hippos populations won’t run totally amuck.
From The Guardian • Jul. 18, 2018
They had more or less run amuck and were damming up rivers and flooding highways, filling pastures, even beginning to invade the cities.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
