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How to use rampage in a sentence

28 example sentences · noun, verb

Rampage means a course of violent, frenzied action. Example: “The rioters went on the rampage and wrecked the town hall.”

Examples of rampage by meaning

nounA course of violent, frenzied action.

  • As though on an incendiary rampage, the fires systematically devoured the contents of Edison's headquarters and facilities.2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion

nounWild partying, typically a drinking binge.

  • Out on the rampage all night.1922, James Joyce, Ulysses

verbTo move about wildly or violently.

  • In the hip science of ultrasmall nanotechnology, fantastical future possibilities like rampaging nanorobots capture the most attention, but the first fruits of the field have been more mundane: tiny bits of mostly ordinary stuff that just sit there.2005 February 22, Kenneth Chang, “Tiny Is Beautiful: Translating 'Nano' Into Practical”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the...
  • Each details the charges against 25 or so defendants accused of supporting the fighters of the Islamic State (Isis), now rampaging across Syria and Iraq under their sinister black banners and sending nervous jitters across the Arab world.2014 November 27, Ian Black, “Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis”, in The Guardian

More sentences with rampage

  • The rioters went on the rampage and wrecked the town hall.From the entry on the rampage
  • A war elephant described rampaging through Tenochtitlan in a novel about the Aztec Empire would be an anatopism.From the entry anatopism
  • It will take us weeks to recover from his rampaging.From the entry rampaging
  • His rampaging anger makes it hard to reason with him.From the entry rampaging
  • The jury found her guilty of 6 counts of first-degree murder, one for each of the victims of her rampage.From the entry first-degree
  • If it is not contained, the virus again may rampage all over the world, experts warned.2024 August 15, Apoorva Mandavilli, “How Did Mpox Become a Global Emergency? What’s Next?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry mpox
  • Their murderous rampages on bee colonies have earned them the nickname ‘murder hornets’ from entomologists.2017 January 1, “The Asian Giant Hornet, The Bee-Decapitating Hornet That Is The Stuff Of Nightmares”, in All That's Interesting. From the entry murder hornet
  • “The police said if Hayley goes on another rampage, they'll throw her in jail.” “Jail?2008 November 16, Brian Boyle, “Pulling Double Booty” (3:20 from the start), in American Dad!, season 5, episode 6, spoken by Stan Smith…. From the entry scenelet
  • PETA claims that these rampages result from the animals' rebelling against years of abuse and deprivation.2005, Kim Masters Evans, Animal rights. From the entry anticircus
  • Remember the rampaging political rhetoric that accompanied ABC’s presentation of the $40 million, 14½-hour megaseries Amerika?1987 May 29 – June 4, Mark Jurkowitz, “Don’t quote me: Duking it out: cheap shots and puff pieces”, in The Boston Phoenix, volume XVI…. From the entry megaseries
  • Stripperella must stop a man bitten by a radioactive Beaver who has turned into the rampaging Werebeaver monster.2004 February 24, Sarah Baisley, “Stripperella Takes on Radioactive Beaver In New Episodes”, in Animation World Network, archived from the…. From the entry werebeaver
  • You know, the whole town would panic if they knew a misunderstood Frankensteinosaurus was on a bloodthirsty rampage!1999, Mona the Vampire, "Jurassic Parking Lot" (season 1, episode 3b). From the entry cover-up
  • Unsquelched, a rampaging rumor can erode a product's sales, damage its market share, and even put workers out of their jobs.1985, Fredrick Koenig, Rumor in the Marketplace. From the entry unsquelched
  • The book ends with Musk’s DOGE rampage: “Musk was doing to the federal government almost note-for-note what he had done to Twitter.”2026 May, Rebecca Bratten Weiss, “The minds and money behind MAGA”, in Christian Century, volume 143, number 5, via EBSCOhost, →ISSN, page…. From the entry doge
  • An erroneous early Fox News report about the New Orleans terror attack is warping the political dialogue in the aftermath of the deadly rampage.2025 January 2, Brian Stelter, “Trump falsely links New Orleans terror attack to migrants after erroneous Fox News report”, in CNN. From the entry erroneous
  • But the events of that Friday became the signal for a rampage throughout the city against anyone and everyone suspected of Venizelist sympathies.2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation, Penguin, published 2020, page 213. From the entry Venizelist
  • Beso pushed all six of them without waiting to see what they brought; like a herd of charging rhinos or rampaging squad of squid.2012, S. Louis King, Gnome Home Papers, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 546. From the entry squad
  • Stoke were on the rampage but their night was soured by the referee's decision to show Jerome a second yellow card on the stroke of half time.2011 October 20, Michael da Silva, “Stoke 3 - 0 Macc Tel-Aviv”, in BBC Sport. From the entry on the rampage
  • "This view is taken by Allatius, who says that a Kallikantzaros has all the characteristics of nightmare, rampaging on men's shoulders, then leaving them half senseless on the ground.2011, Clement A. Miles, The Christmas Troll and Other Yuletide Stories. From the entry kallikantzaros
  • Grinding speed metal rampages like "Disasterpiece" and "New Abortion," and the hyperspeed, furiously downpicked punk-style riffing of "Everything Ends" are no doubt harder, faster and, at least lyrically, sicker.2002, Jeff Kitts, Brad Tolinski, Guitar World Presents Nu-metal, →ISBN, page 21. From the entry downpicked
  • That's when a rapidly proliferating virus from Israel dubbed Jerusalem bogged down computers around the world, and Brain--a "boot-sector infector" from Pakistan that hit MS-DOS systems--went on a rampage.2000 September 15, Robert Koenig, “COMPUTER SCIENCE: Flushing Out Nasty Viruses in the Balkans”, in Science, volume 289, number 5486…. From the entry infector
  • While usually no more than a conservative, large-scale player, every so often, like a periodical drinker, he had to go on a rampage of wild enduring stock-gambling.[1920, Jack London, chapter XXVIII, in Hearts of Three, page 351. From the entry wolf of Wall Street
  • On the other side are the cruel gods of evil, like the cadaverous Vecna and spidery Lolth, along with legions of demons and devils, grinning undead, and ugly, rampaging humanoids.2014, Dungeons and Dragons and Philosophy, Read and Gain Advantage on All Wisdom Checks, Wiley. From the entry Vecna
  • They may prefer to say Net to the prospect of dealing with inquiring foreigners who might ask for permission to go rampaging for footprints and sightings all over their mountains.1961, Odette Tchernine, “The Russians Investigate”, in The Snowman and Company, London: Robert Hale, →OCLC, page 59. From the entry net

Meaning of rampage

  1. noun A course of violent, frenzied action.
  2. noun Wild partying, typically a drinking binge.
  3. verb To move about wildly or violently.

Full definition of rampage

Questions about rampage in a sentence

How do you use rampage in a sentence?
Rampage is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The rioters went on the rampage and wrecked the town hall.”
What is a short sentence with rampage?
“Out on the rampage all night.”
What does rampage mean?
Rampage means a course of violent, frenzied action.

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