run riot
Example Sentences
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Intellectual license granted, the company is allowed to run riot in a performance work that maintains a Brechtian distance between actor and role.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2025
Wasn't expecting Chelsea to roll over and let Arsenal run riot yesterday.
From BBC • Apr. 24, 2024
The point of confining them was to provide the structure and tools to change — a goal that’s impossible to reach if they’re allowed to run riot.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 26, 2023
Mercifully, it ended there, but only after Butland shovelled another couple of attempts away as PSV threatened to run riot on an evening when they vanquished a few demons of their own.
From BBC • Aug. 30, 2023
Let me be prosaic so far as facts can be; it will help me to bear up, and imagination must not run riot with me.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
