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
• Kekuta Manneh rampaged through the heart of Reykjavik's back line to set up McLaughlin for 2-1 in the 25th minute.
  — Pat Brennan, Cincinnati.com, 21 Feb. 2020
• It's been just over a month since Hamas terrorists rampaged through the kibbutz of Kfar Aza.
  — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 15 Nov. 2023
• That did not keep her, in November 2008, from going to the polls in Charlotte, the city where the Klan had rampaged past her home.
  — Margalit Fox, New York Times, 21 May 2018
• Large parts of Europe are under lockdown as the virus rampages through the region.
  — David Goldman, CNN, 18 Mar. 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
• 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
• Trucks rampaged around the track, seemingly without a plan.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 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
• That key difference meant that when flames crossed the road this time, the fire rampaged through a town still teeming with residents and tourists.
  — Lewis Kamb, NBC News, 24 Aug. 2023
• 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
• There is rarely a good time for Godzilla to show up, but the MonsterVerse version of him could not have picked a worse moment to rampage again.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 29 Mar. 2024
• The squad fought off the rampaging terrorists valiantly.
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
• The movie picks up where the last movie ended, with dinosaurs rampaging through the fictional Isla Nublar.
  — Fortune, 1 July 2018
• 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
• The best way to dodge incoming bullets is to tap the controller’s left bumper which makes your masked gunslinger twirl around like a rampaging dervish.
  — Washington Post, 21 June 2019
• 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
• But fungi did not rampage onto our turf from some foreign place.
  — Maryn McKenna, Scientific American, 19 May 2021
• In Sderot alone, rampaging Hamas fighters killed 50 people that day.
  — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Dec. 2023
• After the invasion of #Volgograd, the horde have been rampaging in the stadium.
  — Steve Rosenbloom, chicagotribune.com, 21 June 2018
• The virus now rampaging across China could be much more damaging.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 9 Feb. 2020
• Back in his heyday, rampaging runs up-field were commonplace for the colossus.
  — SI.com, 10 Oct. 2019
• The massive landslide buried dozens of poor miners and their families as Typhoon Mangkhut rampaged across the country's north.
  — Aaron Favila and Joeal Calupitan, Fox News, 19 Sep. 2018
• Hamas carried out that objective on Oct. 7, rampaging through Re’im and overrunning parts of the base.
  — Adam Goldman, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• Their killing prompted settler mobs to rampage through the Palestinian town of Huwara last week, killing one Palestinian.
  — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 8 Mar. 2023
• Outside, Russian troops were rampaging through the town, killing civilians who ventured into the streets.
  — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
• 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
• The killing of the four Israelis at Eli set off waves of reprisals as Israeli extremists rampaged through Palestinian towns and villages, setting fire to homes, cars and fields.
  — Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 5 July 2023
• The rampaging waters breached the facility, flooding the glass-making furnace and the prep kitchen, the company said in a message.
  — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2023

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rampage

2 of 2 noun

• Then what should police do the next time the fight club goes on a rampage?
  — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023
• By the end of the rampage, a professor and eight students were dead.
  — Will Lanzoni, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 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
• Videos of the rampage showed many protesters with phones aloft, filming the scene.
  — André Spigariol, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2023
• Please don’t go on any shooting rampage like some fool.
  — Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 8 Apr. 2023
• The movie needs an excuse to send his angry father on a rampage.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 27 Nov. 2023
• Just one day later, a 20-year-old killed eight and injured 14 in a rampage through a town just south of Belgrade.
  — Chris Massaro, Fox News, 6 June 2023
• 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
• Unlike the real bear, which died, this one goes on a deadly rampage.
  — Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 23 Feb. 2023
• By the end of the gruesome rampage, two other victims were also dead.
  — Holly Yan, CNN, 30 Aug. 2023
• This wild comedy shows an apex predator on a rampage for blow—and blood.
  — Josie Howell | [e-mail], al, 1 Aug. 2023
• Six students and a teacher were wounded in the shooting rampage.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 8 Dec. 2023
• By then, the deadly rampage at Covenant School had already started. 10:13 a.m.
  — Dakin Andone, CNN, 29 Mar. 2023
• 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
• Harrowing scene: The deadly rampage forced students to jump out of windows and run for their lives.
  — CNN, 14 Feb. 2023
• In the aftermath of the rampage, the community searched for meaning.
  — Michael Williams, Dallas News, 8 May 2023
• Amid the spat, Billy and Mayfair are shot to death by Snow and Spruce, causing the mayor to go on a rampage in town to find their murderers.
  — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 17 Nov. 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
• The shooter fired 152 rounds during the rampage, police said Monday.
  — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 4 Apr. 2023
• Wednesday's shooting rampage is the latest in a series of mass shootings that has made 2023 one of the most violent on record.
  — USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2023
• Fifty-eight people were killed in the rampage — two others died later — and roughly 500 were wounded.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2024
• Pain over both shooting rampages has crossed party lines.
  — Will Weissert and Tom Davies, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2023
• Fed up with the ultimatums around child-rearing, Nya stars de-Andreing her house in a rampage.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 23 June 2023
• As white vigilantes go on a rampage, the prospect of safety for runaways lies just across the border in Mexico.
  — Alida Becker, New York Times, 5 May 2023
• These rampages have become quaint and kitschy, safe enough to be parodied by Austin Powers and Pee-wee Herman.
  — Robert Rubsam, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• The titular bear, inspired by a real-life bear, eats a bunch of cocaine after some coke dealers heave it from the sky, and goes on a rampage.
  — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2023
• Robert Card, 40, is accused of killing at least 18 people during his rampage on Wednesday night.
  — Jack Birle, Washington Examiner, 26 Oct. 2023
• And these types of acts of rampage violence have been happening for long since before Covenant, but Covenant brought it to Nashville.
  — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 17 Dec. 2023
• The mother of a Pennsylvania woman who was killed in a shooting rampage in Bucks County over the weekend is calling her daughter a hero.
  — Chris Pandolfo, Fox News, 20 Mar. 2024
• Four people are dead after a man embarked on a stabbing rampage in Rockford, Illinois on Wednesday afternoon.
  — Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 28 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024