How to Use berserk in a Sentence

berserk

1 of 2 noun
  • The crowd in Rio went berserk, and social media melted.
    — Bobby Ghosh, Time, 7 May 2026
  • But other, less berserk players make strong impressions this week two.
    — Sean T. Collins, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2022
  • Only after the midway break did the floodgates open and the Fire go berserk on goal.
    — The Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 26 Apr. 2026
  • The film, however, goes its own way with some usefully berserk imagery.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 1 Oct. 2020
  • The film, however, goes its own way with some usefully berserk imagery.
    — Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 29 Oct. 2020
  • The film, however, goes its own way with some usefully berserk imagery.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 2 Oct. 2020
  • And here’s where Di Modica’s story goes from plucky to over-the-top berserk.
    — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 26 Feb. 2021
  • And before racists see this and go all berserk … These books are not really the man’s better work.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Good liars, after all, can cover up tics, while nervous truth-tellers might set the machine berserk.
    — Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2021
  • Last week, everyone went berserk over a three-cylinder Toyota.
    — Clifford Atiyeh, Car and Driver, 6 Apr. 2022
  • The minute even a small fraction of what those border towns deal with every day is brought to their front door, they all of a sudden go berserk.
    — CBS News, 18 Sep. 2022
  • But it's followed by a spectacularly berserk, grotesque and visceral fifth episode sure to spawn a year of think pieces.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Aug. 2020
  • Haaland lifted his finger to his ear and looked into the crowd, where Norway fans were going berserk.
    — Tim Rohan, NBC news, 23 June 2026
  • Terance Mann went berserk, as has been repeatedly noted, and that had not exactly been his forte.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 July 2021
  • Markets went berserk, there was a bond meltdown, and the country’s prime minister ultimately lost her job.
    — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 17 Nov. 2022
  • In an extended flashback scene, Peele shows us how the animal went berserk on set, attacking cast members.
    — Clark Collis, EW.com, 24 July 2022
  • In the first scene, a chimpanzee goes berserk on the set of a sitcom, a moment of absurd, bloody terror that becomes a motif and a thematic key.
    — New York Times, 20 July 2022
  • The word berserk exists in our dictionaries thanks to the Norse tales of these superhuman warriors.
    — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2022
  • After the surreal opener, her film takes off like an Aston Martin, zigzagging from one berserk scene to the next.
    — New York Times, 9 Jan. 2021
  • The berserk has returned to the public square, more extreme than ever, in a guise that seems new and yet also recalls earlier intrusions.
    — George Packer, The Atlantic, 18 Apr. 2020
  • Jazz make some inexplicable mistakes, can’t get enough stops late, as the Mavs go berserk from the 3-point line to tie the series at one game apiece.
    — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Apr. 2022
  • The crowd—screaming at first for Nadal, then for Medvedev, and then for the sheer release from tension that screaming might bring—had grown just this side of berserk.
    — Gerald Marzorati, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2019
  • The movie has a comedic plot about a couple driving each other berserk in their London home during coronavirus confinement.
    — John Jurgensen, WSJ, 15 Jan. 2021
  • Welcome to the new American berserk, to borrow Philip Roth’s memorable phrase.
    — Jonathan Zimmerman, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Throughout Friday’s game, both were on the bench in sweatsuits going berserk over big plays and celebrating teammates’ success.
    — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 5 Nov. 2022
  • Peer in on the New York team making a medium-to-deep run in the playoffs as every New Yorker in your life goes berserk.
    — Alex Kirshner, New York Times, 16 May 2026
  • By his own admission, instigator Rijkaard had gone 'berserk' and later apologised.
    — SI.com, 6 May 2018
  • Argentina strikes first in the 38th minute, and the massive Argentina faithful goes berserk inside the stadium.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 June 2026
  • In this line of thinking, the freedom that everyone feels is attributed to something far more elevated than people going berserk after months spent indoors.
    — New York Times, 21 Sep. 2021
  • After inflicting 40 minutes of stressful backstage drama on audiences, Noé lets the whole film-within-a-film go berserk.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 4 May 2022

berserk

2 of 2 adjective
  • Besides equipment, the hunt for drugs has been equally berserk.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 4 May 2021
  • In the past year, the real-estate market has, well, gone berserk.
    — Alyssa Shelasky, Curbed, 16 Feb. 2022
  • While stopped at the light, two cars pulled up and boxed her in, and a berserk man exited one of the cars, yelling at her.
    — cleveland.com, 17 July 2019
  • Straight up, the flesh-and-bones missile writhes and contorts – a berserk mosh pit of one – before crashing back to its wet hunting grounds.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 2019
  • In the past few years, the disease had spread with a kind of berserk enthusiasm from Bradshaw’s prostate to his lungs and into his bone marrow.
    — Katie Engelhart, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2021
  • When the Spurs locked down Brunson, or tried, the ball went elsewhere, zinging around the court, from player to player, as if in a berserk video game.
    — David Remnick, New Yorker, 14 June 2026
  • That is, these candidate vaccines seemed to prompt berserk immune responses that caused lung damage in monkeys and liver damage in ferrets.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 1 May 2020
  • The small pockets of Egyptian fans in the stadium went absolutely berserk, jumping and ripping off their shirts as their team went bonkers below them.
    — Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 7 July 2026
  • In this regular season, the 49ers won in Seattle, but lost to the Seahawks at Levi’s, which was packed with berserk fans.
    — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 8 Jan. 2020
  • Mitch McConnell has gone predictably berserk over the prospect of increasing the inheritance tax by taxing capital gains at death.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 18 June 2021
  • Researchers have widely hypothesized that infectious agents—like viruses—trigger berserk immune responses in certain children with genetic predispositions.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 14 May 2020
  • There are a couple of nifty Rube Goldbergian action sequences — one with a bank vault, the other with a guillotine — that recall the berserk inventiveness of Gore Verbinski, the original director.
    — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 25 May 2017
  • Paid Off is mordantly humorous television entertainment that serves as a queasy reminder that America’s leaders have saddled the younger generation with the weight of education debt combined with curiously slow-growing wages and berserk politics.
    — Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, 12 July 2018
  • The New York Knicks' historic comeback against the San Antonio Spurs in Game 4 of the NBA Finals on Wednesday ignited celebration as well as chaos outside Madison Square Garden as some fans went berserk, prompting dozens of arrests.
    — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 11 June 2026

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