How to Use amok in a Sentence

amok

adverb
  • What if a killer was running amok in an old-folks home?
    — Neil McRobert, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Chicago has long been the poster child for big-city crime run amok.
    — Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2022
  • This is what the government can do when they're allowed to run amok.
    — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Both point guards are running amok in the West with less hardware to their names.
    — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 2 Dec. 2025
  • Fon’t let your cholesterol or blood pressure, for instance, run amok.
    — Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Which is to say, the people in the streets weren’t riffraff running amok but activists with aims.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Obama let Iran run amok; Trump let Iran know who’s boss.
    — Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Jimmy was a young Scottish boy when the sickness ran amok first.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 14 Jan. 2026
  • But mostly, the Bills have allowed star tailbacks to run amok.
    — Robert Marvi, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Nov. 2025
  • In many cases, stalking can come from the illusion of love, run amok.
    — Eric Taipale, Discover Magazine, 14 Oct. 2022
  • Yet another use would be to try and ensure that riders in self-driving cars do not go amok.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 July 2022
  • The Sanderson Sisters are back and ready to run amok in Salem once again!
    — Kara Nesvig, Parents, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Even recently, as inflation has run amok, wages in those metros have kept pace.
    — Ramsey Archibald | [email protected], al, 21 July 2022
  • Sanders and others cast the derailment as an industry run amok.
    — Scott Dance, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2023
  • But with villains running amok across the city, Ben must decide whether to suit up once more as the masked hero.
    — Olivia Singh, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • While in his plays, anger runs amok, mushrooming into this gigantic, hideous form.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The Pope has made his feelings on technology run amok well known since his election.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 25 May 2026
  • To Kagan, this kind of world order would allow our adversaries to run amok.
    — Carine Hajjar, National Review, 16 Feb. 2022
  • My friend Max went to Cambodia Now for coconut-laden khmer fish amok.
    — Nikita Richardson, New York Times, 13 June 2023
  • Look, a lot of people have been working and Zooming with their kids running amok in the background all year.
    — Sandra Gonzalez, CNN, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Smith ably proves just that, while sounding the alarm about experimentation run amok.
    — Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2023
  • The older game designer was now the uneasy parent, looking on as his children ran amok.
    — Neima Jahromi, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2021
  • This goes some way toward explaining why reading him can feel like entering a time machine that’s run amok.
    — Natasha Wimmer, The New York Review of Books, 1 Feb. 2024
  • His car ran amok for 100 feet, but only his ego was injured when the incident made the papers.
    — Patt Morrisoncolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Tea, fruit and snack stalls line the muddy sidewalk, while rickshaws and motorcycles run amok on the uneven roads.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 14 Oct. 2022
  • Remember when the Kennedys were running amok on the islands and Cape Cod back in the day?
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The richness of the deal made headlines in 2021, and many took it to be a sign of content spending run amok.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 13 Dec. 2022
  • But the days of the conference running amok in collegiate football are ending.
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2026
  • After running amok throughout the local terrain, the family dog can come in for a little wash down.
    — Carisha Swanson, House Beautiful, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Republicans have seized on the figures to argue that the left’s pursuit of social justice has run amok.
    — Shawn Hubler, New York Times, 27 May 2023

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