run wild
Example Sentences
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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
Speculation has already begun to run wild on social media, but we still know very little about the situation.
From Slate • Jul. 13, 2024
Inside, she says to let your imagination run wild.
From Seattle Times • May 17, 2024
The light of the headlights fell on brambles, on vines run wild, and on olive trees crouching like bent old men beside the road.
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
