How to Use rampant in a Sentence

rampant

adjective
  • Why is car rental rage so rampant right now?
    — Christopher Elliott, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2026
  • But what about the rampant blaze that scars that other place?
    — Patricia Smith, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Complaints about the heat are rampant.
    — Ray Stern, AZCentral.com, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Bribery and backdoor deals run rampant.
    — Maira Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2026
  • Left unchecked for the first time in years, my hormones were now free to run rampant.
    — Sarah Levy, Vogue, 18 Mar. 2022
  • The company said rampant crime in the area forced it to shut down.
    — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 11 Apr. 2023
  • That cheating is rampant in our elections.
    — Time Staff, Time, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Phone scams by text and by phone are rampant after a disaster.
    — Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 8 July 2025
  • Crime in New York was rampant, and racial tensions were high.
    — Robert Chiarito, Chicago Tribune, 14 July 2025
  • Or plain nosiness, which is also rampant.
    — Judith Martin, Mercury News, 29 Dec. 2025
  • But false claims continue to run rampant across all three of the platforms.
    — Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2021
  • Ballots are in the mail, attack ads are rampant and canvassers are out in full force.
    — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 24 Oct. 2024
  • The strike helped scale back the rampant use of solitary confinement.
    — Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Crime is rampant among the denizens of that infamous building.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 26 July 2025
  • The club wasn’t providing drugs for anyone, but drugs were rampant.
    — Rachel Rabbit White, ELLE, 5 May 2023
  • Meanwhile, Rollins has said that there's rampant fraud in the program.
    — ABC News, 23 June 2026
  • Meanwhile, Rollins has said that there’s rampant fraud in the program.
    — Geoff Mulvihill, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2026
  • This rises to 73% of those in tech roles, where layoffs have been most rampant.
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2026
  • But back in the days when Covid was rampant, the fate of the five-song suite was up in the proverbial air.
    — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 16 Feb. 2024
  • In short, identity debt is rampant.
    — Craig Davies, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Disease is rampant, and children as young as 4 are being forced to work in mines.
    — Paul Tilsley, Fox News, 9 Mar. 2025
  • Unemployment was rampant in our region, and many of us felt a push to flee.
    — Sarah Stankorb, The New Republic, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Speculation of a breakup is rampant but the news is not yet public.
    — Caleb Hammond, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Fear is rampant in the global workplace and drives many of our decisions.
    — Bonnie Low-Kramen, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2023
  • If parents aren't teaching such truths, then maybe schools should start, at least in areas where crime is rampant.
    — Dana Kelley, Arkansas Online, 18 June 2021
  • But rampant cord cutting pushed Fox to step into the streaming game.
    — Lillian Rizzo, CNBC, 27 Feb. 2025
  • None of this implies that negligence is rampant.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The practice is rampant, leaving customers in the lurch at the last moment.
    — Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 21 Dec. 2021
  • That showed in the second half when they were outclassed by a rampant England side.
    — Elias Burke, New York Times, 23 June 2026
  • At the time, gambling was rampant, not only among fans of baseball but among players, as well.
    — David Hill, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2024

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