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
In other words, hippos populations won’t run totally amuck.
From The Guardian • Jul. 18, 2018
There’s nothing strange about absolute power run amuck.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2018
In a games field where players mostly tried to fight the invaders and save the cities, this game let players embrace the low-res fantasy of running amuck, by playing tiny Godzilla in a tinier world.
From The Verge • Apr. 11, 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.
