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
By contrast, when Franglen composed the music for the Wind Traders - a nomadic clan of salesmen, who travel by airship - he could let his imagination run wild.
From BBC • Dec. 12, 2025
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
They run wild, tumble, and fight, like elementary school kids with a substitute recess teacher.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
