Sample Sentences for
rampant
(editor-reviewed)

rampant as in:  rampant growth

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  • Unfortunately, or not, as the case may be, this vice seems to be rampant at our school.  (source)
    rampant = uncontrolled (widespread)
  • It's become rampant, Eadlyn, and it's frightening.  (source)
  • Rumors about exactly how he had died were running rampant, but no one had actually been witness to his demise.  (source)
    rampant = uncontrolled
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  • Respiratory diseases, from infections and exposure to unbreathable air in factories and mines, were rampant.  (source)
    rampant = uncontrolled (widespread)
  • Presently she laughed and showed him a small sketch of Jo in her scribbling suit, with the bow rampantly erect upon her cap, and issuing from her mouth the words, 'Genius burns!'†  (source)
  • With those words he presented another man without a hat, and also with a cigar, and also surrounded with a halo of ale and tobacco smoke, which man, though not so excited as himself, was in a state which would have been akin to lunacy but for its fading into sober method when compared with the rampancy of Mr Pancks.†  (source)
  • But the law was applied much more broadly, and soon thousands of mothers with children living in poor, marginalized communities where drugs and drug addiction are rampant were at risk of prosecution.  (source)
  • His bushy hair had been cut and smoothly brushed, but didn't stay in order long, for in exciting moments, he rumpled it up in the droll way he used to do, and Jo liked it rampantly erect better than flat, because she thought it gave his fine forehead a Jove-like aspect.†  (source)
  • Speculation ran rampant.  (source)
    rampant = without restraint
  • Life streamed through him in splendid flood, glad and rampant, until it seemed that it would burst him asunder in sheer ecstasy and pour forth generously over the world.  (source)
  • The last thing I want is more power-hungry Lunars running rampant in my country.†  (source)
  • He wants fire to run rampant across the Nine Worlds.†  (source)
  • While we packed, speculation was rampant.†  (source)
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