run wild

Example Sentences

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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

"Then they walk up the path and suddenly see it, and the kids just run wild, completely excited."

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026

The plants spread out and run wild with large green leaves and magnificent five-pointed, edible, yellow blossoms.

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2025

It’s like a metaphor for its own creation: Letting one’s imagination run wild is at once the point of the show and the thing that produced it.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2024

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