Sample Sentences for
amok
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    When the store reopened after the storm, shoppers ran amok, grabbing groceries off the shelves.
    amok = wildly out of control
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    For four long years you two have been running amok in this school, and I've never been able to prove anything—until now!  (source)
    amok = out of control
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    He would not allow three men from ancient times to run amok in the modern world for centuries.†  (source)
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    I saw him run amok twice, breaking things, reaching for knives.†  (source)
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    They had more or less run amuck and were damming up rivers and flooding highways, filling pastures, even beginning to invade the cities.†  (source)
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    I feel as if I were in the United Nations and the translators had run amok.†  (source)
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    The unhinged fling of an arm, the right arm whippy and haywire, like a part that runs amuck in a machine, and the whole body spasm, an arrhythmic thing, a thing outside the limits of experience.†  (source)
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    A part of him — the part closest to his throbbing right ear — was quite keen on the idea of letting Ron down and watching him run amok until the effects of the potion wore off ...but on the other hand, they were supposed to be friends, Ron had not been himself when he had attacked, and Harry— thought that he would deserve another punching if he permitted Ron to declare undying love for Romilda Vane.†  (source)
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    Sometimes, in the haste of speeding-up, they would dump one of the animals out on the floor before it was fully stunned, and it would get upon its feet and run amuck.†  (source)
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    We watch the kids run amok around us.†  (source)
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    It was at this point, gentlemen, that enraged by the defection of seven of his former associates, and stung by the mocking voice that had last hailed him, and maddened by his long entombment in a place as black as the bowels of despair; it was then that Steelkilt proposed to the two Canallers, thus far apparently of one mind with him, to burst out of their hole at the next summoning of the garrison; and armed with their keen mincing knives (long, crescentic, heavy implements with a handle at each end) run amuck from the bowsprit to the taffrail; and if by any devilishness of desperation possible, seize the ship.†  (source)
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    He's thinking that he can't keep the people on his side if the troops are running amok among the civilian population—raping the women, stealing cattle, burning houses.†  (source)
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    What preposterous madness to float in thin air two miles high on an inch or two of metal, sustained from death by the meager skill and intelligence of two vapid strangers, a beardless kid named Huple and a nervous nut like Dobbs, who really did go nuts right there in the plane, running amuck over the target without leaving his copilot's seat and grabbing the controls from Huple to plunge them all down into that chilling dive that tore Yossarian's headset loose and brought them right back inside the dense flak from which they had almost escaped.†  (source)
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