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
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
A red card for United defender Jonny Evans early in the second half enabled City to run riot late in the game, scoring three times from the 90th minute.
From Washington Times • Jun. 2, 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
