How to Use rampant in a Sentence

rampant

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• Even as Covid cases rise, health workers on the front lines are also battling rampant infections within their own ranks.
  — David Pierson, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2022
• Retailers are tightening up their generous return policies in light of shipping costs and rampant cases of fraud.
  — Jeva Lange, The Week, 27 Dec. 2022
• There’s no single explanation for the rampant unhappiness, but Santos says some of it goes back to the way humans are wired.
  — Jamie Ducharme, Time, 5 Jan. 2023
• The target of vicious verbal attacks from audiences decades before those assaults were rampant on the internet.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2024
• Schlozman posits that the Dahmer story took off this year due to this distrust, fueled at times by the rampant popularity of true crime content.
  — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 28 Dec. 2022
• Nearly all of the population of Gaza has been displaced, hunger and disease are rampant, and entire neighborhoods have been bombed into rubble.
  — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2024
• Some parents could no longer take it — the screaming sirens, the hovering police helicopters, rampant prostitution, drug dealing around campus.
  — Howard Blumestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2023
• Such off-world ventures can also seem hard to justify when we Earthlings are plagued by climate change, pandemics, risks of nuclear war, and rampant inequality.
  — Ramin Skibba, WIRED, 28 Dec. 2022
• 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
• The company said rampant crime in the area forced it to shut down.
  — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 11 Apr. 2023
• In the ’70s, there was wife-swapping, and there had been rampant cheating throughout the decades.
  — Rachel Rabbit White, ELLE, 5 May 2023
• Parlor talk is rampant over the three men rumored to be in the veepstakes' top tier: Govs.
  — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2024
• One of the most consistent themes: higher-ups turning a blind eye to rampant abuse.
  — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2023
• The belief that lying is rampant in the digital age just doesn’t match the data.
  — Big Think, 24 June 2024
• According to the Gothamist, Avant Gardner has been dogged by concerns of rampant drug use.
  — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 3 Aug. 2023
• The club wasn’t providing drugs for anyone, but drugs were rampant.
  — Rachel Rabbit White, ELLE, 5 May 2023
• Unemployment was rampant in our region, and many of us felt a push to flee.
  — Sarah Stankorb, The New Republic, 1 Mar. 2023
• The city has struggled like many in recent years with homelessness, rampant drug use, and crime.
  — ABC News, 19 Nov. 2023
• Fear is rampant in the global workplace and drives many of our decisions.
  — Bonnie Low-Kramen, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2023
• But the issue has only become more perverse and rampant in the 20 years since she was rescued.
  — Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 3 Apr. 2023
• Gasoline was scarce, power and water shortages were rampant, leading to chaos on the streets.
  — Linda Chase, Sun Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2024
• Fraud is rampant around the holidays, which means a greater likelihood of airline fraud.
  — Marisa Garcia, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• The culprit behind the declines, the researchers say, is rampant overfishing.
  — Dino Grandoni, BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2023
• Anti-Catholic bigotry that was rampant in America at the time of Coyle’s slaying, Davies said.
  — Greg Garrison | , al, 11 Aug. 2023
• The measures give teeth to efforts to address the city’s open-air drug addiction crisis — and the street crime and rampant homelessness that come with it.
  — Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2024
• The gene gives them a selective advantage in places like Africa, where malaria is rampant.
  — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2023
• At the same time the rich-mom aesthetic (from Gisele Bündchen to Demi Moore), which can be summed up in white denim, has been rampant.
  — Selene Oliva, Glamour, 18 Sep. 2023
• Even though her and other dogs’ suffering was rampant and violations of the law were clear, the USDA failed to act.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2024
• The group, which deployed more than 1,200 observers for the election, said violence in the election was more rampant in the southern region.
  — Chinedu Asadu, ajc, 18 Mar. 2023
• The Times found that wage theft was rampant and that many workers were subjected to squalid, sometimes lethal conditions.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 26 Sep 2024