run wild
Example Sentences
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Yet over 100 stories up the North Tower, restaurateur Joe Baum and Michael Whiteman let their imaginations run wild.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
In some ways, the collective skepticism was liberating: Whiteman and Baum, who died in 1998, could let their imaginations run wild.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
"I think if not, people's imaginations run wild and I think we would all like to know exactly what is going on," he says.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
Well, if you let your paranoia run wild, quite a lot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2026
It’s a collecting place for the filthy, smelly, sticky, and often sharp and jagged castoffs of a society run wild.
From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman
