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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    Twenty minutes later they came surging out, about three hundred kids, babbling, gleeful, casually amuck.†  (source)
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    We watch the kids run amok around us.†  (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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    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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    The crowd moved outside, where loudly and profanely they attacked the stolid immovability of a system run amuck.†  (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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    Such a being is a metaphysical monstrosity, struggling to oppose, negate and contradict the fact of his own existence, running blindly amuck on a trail of destruction, capable of nothing but pain.†  (source)
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