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
Jeremy Doku was absolutely brilliant for Manchester City in their 3-0 win on Sunday, but Liverpool's tactics were the reason he was able to run riot down their right.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 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
Flowers also run riot inside City Hall too.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 11, 2023
Let me be prosaic so far as facts can be; it will help me to bear up, and imagination must not run riot with me.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
