run wild
Example Sentences
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Plus, what’s the endgame for social-media marketing after undisclosed ads run wild in feeds?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
He added that he voted for Mayor Karen Bass, but “almost everything Pratt said about the homeless resonated with me. … The homeless run wild here, without consequence.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026
The fortified vault in Kentucky is closed to the public, allowing imaginations to run wild with conspiracies and myths: that the gold is gone or fake, or the vault contains alien objects.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
The plants spread out and run wild with large green leaves and magnificent five-pointed, edible, yellow blossoms.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2025
Her aunt had always prophesied that Elizabeth would come to no good end, proud, and vain, and foolish as she was, and having been allowed to run wild all her childhood days.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
