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rampage

[ram-peyj, ram-peyj, ram-peyj] / ˈræm peɪdʒ, ræmˈpeɪdʒ, ˈræm peɪdʒ /


VERB
go crazy; storm
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK
be calm


Example Sentences

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The police spokeswoman added the force believe the incident to be a "rampage".

From BBC Jul. 8, 2026

If “Supergirl” sells enough of it, hopefully Alcock can rampage again in a more confident sequel that truly cuts loose.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 24, 2026

Bridges is another key to New York’s playoff rampage, a stopper on defense who’s suddenly reborn offensively.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 8, 2026

You would have an executive that was just on a rampage, with no one willing to stand up.

From Slate Mar. 4, 2026

Bunny, who had been relatively calm, was now on a rampage because Henry refused to drive him down to Washington, D.C., to see an exhibit of World War I biplanes at the Smithsonian.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

The narrative backdrop is that after 32 years of who-coulda-thunk-it rampages, humankind is tired of dealing with the darned things.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 30, 2025

Eggs: So, that whole thing about the U.S. trying to import more eggs as bird flu rampages across American livestock centers?

From Slate Mar. 5, 2025

When the monster arrives, its rampages across Tokyo evoke the Allied fire bombings of the war, including the 1945 nuclear strikes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

From Scientific American Nov. 3, 2023

Responding to an opposition question in parliament, Gallant condemned the rampages as "a dangerous social phenomenon that we must fight."

From Reuters Jun. 28, 2023

Even his gleaning rampages were not forbidden by anything but custom and tradition.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

Since then, Nigeria has allowed hundreds of American troops to be posted to the country to train Nigerian forces and coordinate targeting of militant groups that have rampaged through the Lake Chad Basin for years.

From The Wall Street Journal May 18, 2026

"Uniformed, military-trained personnel, carrying semi-automatic firearms and military-grade weaponry, have rampaged for months through Chicago and the surrounding areas," the Illinois lawsuit states.

From BBC Jan. 12, 2026

They are in this space because of the devastating wildfires that rampaged across the Los Angeles area that caused the postponement of a Clippers’ game and forced the NBA to reschedule games.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 16, 2025

By Sunday, Palworld was one of the most popular games on the planet as players rampaged through a cruel world of chickens and squirrels engaged in shootouts.

From New York Times Jan. 23, 2024

Elagrid was soon yelling, “Don’ panic, now, don’ panic!” while the skrewts rampaged around the pumpkin patch, now strewn with the smoldering wreckage of the boxes.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

Please don’t expect me to laugh at the goats from goat yoga rampaging through a hotel lobby or a high-speed golf cart chase.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2026

He cuts a calm individual in interviews, but morphs into a rampaging figure on the training pitches, even physically moving his coaches to demonstrate the intensity he is after.

From BBC Aug. 8, 2026

Along with such franchise tropes as face-huggers and rampaging xenomorphs, ship design was the key area where homage overtook the series’ emphasis on new locations, lifeforms and themes.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 2, 2026

“Viewed positively, what the American revolution did was to give the common man a voice, a veto, elbow room and a refuge from the rampaging presumptions of his ‘betters.’

From The Wall Street Journal May 19, 2026

The rest proceeded to wreck the classroom more effectively than a rampaging rhino.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling




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