How to Use rampage in a Sentence

rampage

1 of 2 verb
  • Rioters rampaged through the streets of the city.
  • At night hyenas rampaged through the area while lions called.
    — Peter Browne, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Dec. 2019
  • But fungi did not rampage onto our turf from some foreign place.
    — Maryn McKenna, Scientific American, 19 May 2021
  • Racists with tiki torches had just rampaged through town and were poised to come back for a second day.
    — Hannah Allam, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Five masked men were rampaging a utility van.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Feb. 2026
  • When there are no cataclysmic floods, there are rampaging wildfires.
    — Literary Hub, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Large parts of Europe are under lockdown as the virus rampages through the region.
    — David Goldman, CNN, 18 Mar. 2020
  • Against a barrage of rolling, tumbling, rampaging air mattresses, a kid tries in vain to keep one down.
    — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Back in his heyday, rampaging runs up-field were commonplace for the colossus.
    — SI.com, 10 Oct. 2019
  • The virus now rampaging across China could be much more damaging.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 9 Feb. 2020
  • But as covid-19 began to rampage through the country and hit her, she was seized with a new urgency to find him.
    — Lisa Selin Davis Washington Post, Star Tribune, 28 Sep. 2020
  • When one animal falls ill, pathogens can rampage throughout the brood, picking up new mutations along the way.
    — Neil Vora, Time, 22 May 2026
  • It's been just over a month since Hamas terrorists rampaged through the kibbutz of Kfar Aza.
    — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Fifteen-year-old Nabil Dueis was tending to his livestock when the settlers rampaged the area.
    — Zeena Saifi, CNN Money, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Through it all, Reeves somehow barrels through the picture with equal parts rampaging force and Zen-like cool.
    — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Pathogens do not rampage like malevolent armies on the march, causing damage in direct relation to the scale and pace of their spread.
    — Time, 3 Feb. 2020
  • In Sderot alone, rampaging Hamas fighters killed 50 people that day.
    — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Dec. 2023
  • The cell phone video shows dozens of young Israeli men swarming by the half dozen gas pumps, shouting in anger, rampaging past the queuing cars.
    — Nic Robertson, CNN, 1 Apr. 2023
  • People did not have the medical tools to fight pandemics, which rampaged through communities.
    — David Blumenthal, STAT, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Outside, Russian troops were rampaging through the town, killing civilians who ventured into the streets.
    — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
  • That data notably doesn’t specify how many of the injuries involved rampaging teens.
    — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Elections took place in 2016, but violent armed groups still rampage against almost anyone who gets in their way.
    — Dionne Searcey, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2019
  • Her death at the hands of rampaging cops helped ignite the nation’s racial reckoning in 2020.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • While Sana argued with the police in the street, the ultra-orthodox settlers rampaged through the library.
    — Ryan Byrnes, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Upgrading your skills further adds new moves such as super jumps, rampaging charges, and powerful smash attacks.
    — Griff Griffin, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The movie picks up where the last movie ended, with dinosaurs rampaging through the fictional Isla Nublar.
    — Fortune, 1 July 2018
  • And promptly goes wild, rampaging through the forest looking for more blow, ripping apart the occasional hiker along the way.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2023
  • But the porcine population has ballooned and now everyone’s up to their eyes in rampaging, marauding boars.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 16 June 2026
  • After the invasion of #Volgograd, the horde have been rampaging in the stadium.
    — Steve Rosenbloom, chicagotribune.com, 21 June 2018
  • Because the filmmakers decided that the best thing to do with the rampaging digital dinosaurs was to bring them indoors.
    — Derek Connolly, New York Times, 20 June 2018

rampage

2 of 2 noun
  • Here's what is know about the rampage.
    — ABC News, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Williams has been in custody since the day of the rampage.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Jan. 2026
  • This galling notion sets her on a rampage.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Then what should police do the next time the fight club goes on a rampage?
    — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The movie needs an excuse to send his angry father on a rampage.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 27 Nov. 2023
  • This wild comedy shows an apex predator on a rampage for blow—and blood.
    — Josie Howell | [email protected], al, 1 Aug. 2023
  • By the end of the rampage, a professor and eight students were dead.
    — Will Lanzoni, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2023
  • Unlike the real bear, which died, this one goes on a deadly rampage.
    — Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Videos of the rampage showed many protesters with phones aloft, filming the scene.
    — André Spigariol, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2023
  • More than 25 people were wounded in the rampage.
    — Richard Hall, Time, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The scream, the hiss, the explosion — not a monster’s rampage.
    — Kennedy French, Variety, 6 Mar. 2026
  • By the end of the gruesome rampage, two other victims were also dead.
    — Holly Yan, CNN, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The next day, two teenagers went on a shooting rampage at Columbine, killing more than a dozen people.
    — Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 1 June 2026
  • McCarthy’s rampage was about rooting out traitors.
    — Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Wyze has been on quite the rampage lately, with a bunch of new devices and features going live.
    — Paul Lamkin, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Among those killed during the roughly four-minute rampage were a 3-year-old boy and his parents.
    — Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 9 May 2023
  • Six students and a teacher were wounded in the shooting rampage.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Little progress has been made on the east side in the year since the deadly rampage, Taylor said.
    — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 8 May 2023
  • From the first fire to the last, the suspect’s rampage lasted just more than 10 minutes.
    — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 14 Apr. 2026
  • From the first fire to the last, the suspect’s rampage lasted just more than 10 minutes.
    — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The priest hid upstairs during the rampage, according to court records.
    — Selina Guevara, NBC news, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Three of the guns used in the rampage were smuggled illegally from Maine.
    — Max Saltman, CNN Money, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Some said the gunman’s rampage had instead persuaded them to keep their guns for self-protection.
    — Constant Méheut, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2023
  • Wang Wei sets out on a rampage, confronting both the corrupt police and the criminals.
    — Sara Merican, Deadline, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Speck was a mass murderer who went on a rampage and killed eight nursing students in 1966.
    — Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The wolves’ spree continues, claiming the lives of more than two dozen sheep and three alpacas—the survival of predators or a bloody rampage.
    — Sebastian Mulder, The New Yorker, 12 July 2023
  • In fact, some buyers that very first year felt these cars were a little too hardcore, and at the same time Shelby was on a rampage to cut costs.
    — Ben Stewart, Popular Mechanics, 13 Apr. 2023
  • In the aftermath of the rampage, the community searched for meaning.
    — Michael Williams, Dallas News, 8 May 2023
  • In the wake of the deadly rampage, Sanford’s military record has come into focus.
    — Luis Martinez, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Fed up with the ultimatums around child-rearing, Nya stars de-Andreing her house in a rampage.
    — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 23 June 2023

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