run wild

Example Sentences

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“I let my mind run wild/Don’t know why I do it,” she sings, “But you just settle in like a song with no end.”

From New York Times

On “ANIMALS,” Overall’s first album for acclaimed experimental electronic label Warp Records, the studio mad scientist and a cast of well-curated contributors run wild with some of his most avant-garde impulses.

From Seattle Times

She’d eventually like to open her own studio, where people could play around with colorful glazes and let their creativity run wild.

From Los Angeles Times

Watch enough of them and certain patterns emerge: the eventual leader’s humble origins and disillusionment with reality; the crystallization of a guiding idea and the gathering of a flock; the ensuing egotism run wild, mass madness and moment of reckoning.

From New York Times

The popular imagination has run wild since revelations of the government’s role in the 1953 death of scientist Frank Olson.

From Washington Times