How to Use amok in a Sentence

amok

adverb

• The birds are breeding and running amok in Pinecrest, Fla.
  — Patricia Mazzei Alfonso Duran, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2023
• Chicago has long been the poster child for big-city crime run amok.
  — Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2022
• 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
• This is what the government can do when they're allowed to run amok.
  — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 26 Sep. 2022
• The Little Rascals, a beloved film from my childhood, ran amok with the Top 10 charts for 25 straight days this past April.
  — Travis Bean, Forbes, 29 May 2021
• In many cases, stalking can come from the illusion of love, run amok.
  — Eric Taipale, Discover Magazine, 14 Oct. 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
• 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
• But the Longhorns’ offensive line can’t let the Mountaineers run amok in the backfield all afternoon.
  — Nick Moyle, ExpressNews.com, 6 Nov. 2020
• But recent news in the U.S. is filled with stories of these technologies running amok.
  — Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2021
• Fon’t let your cholesterol or blood pressure, for instance, run amok.
  — Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, 27 Dec. 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
• There’s a major thought exercise in the field of AI ethics and philosophy about an AI run amok.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 14 Oct. 2022
• Given freedom to run amok in garbage time, Eubanks set new career bests in scoring (17 points) and blocked shots (four).
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Mar. 2021
• To Kagan, this kind of world order would allow our adversaries to run amok.
  — Carine Hajjar, National Review, 16 Feb. 2022
• Now, though, in a scenario familiar to any sci-fi fan, the experiment seems to have run amok: The bots have betrayed the humans.
  — Paul Farhi, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Jan. 2023
• Will transfers continue to run amok in Arizona high schools?
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 2 Jan. 2024
• Sanders and others cast the derailment as an industry run amok.
  — Scott Dance, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 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
• In the hours that followed, Sero ran amok in a nearby residential area in eastern Seoul as people looked on in shock.
  — Stella Kim, NBC News, 24 Mar. 2023
• This week of all weeks, that's a potent storyline: Law enforcement run amok.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 23 Apr. 2021
• They were also constructed of ‘50s atomic nightmares and a fear of science run amok.
  — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 5 May 2023
• The Republican brand is very damaged by the Republicans in the Co -- in the House who are letting the crazies in their party run amok.
  — ABC News, 29 Jan. 2023
• He’s the hairy-handed gent who ran amok in Kent in John Landis’ effects-laden 1981 horror comedy.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2021
• The Universal film explores a world in which dinosaurs are not just running amok on a remote island, but all over Earth.
  — Frank Pallotta, CNN, 10 June 2022
• 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
• Even recently, as inflation has run amok, wages in those metros have kept pace.
  — Ramsey Archibald | [e-mail], al, 21 July 2022
• Again, this all makes sense for companies trying to turn a profit, and a world of sanitized, corporate A.I. is probably better than one with millions of unhinged chatbots running amok.
  — Kevin Roose, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2024
• Bad behavior: Entitled tourists are running amok, defacing the Colosseum, getting rowdy in Bali and messing with wild animals in national parks.
  — Colleen Grablick, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024