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Example sentences for: amok

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But, even as he emulates the rooster that thinks the sun rises because it crows, Morris demonstrates how right Panetta and the others were to be terrified about his running amok in the White House.
Applying the same insight to more serious instances of spending run amok, we'll end up making recommendations like "abolish the Pentagon" or "abolish the Department of Health and Human Services"--recommendations that are surely unrealistic and possibly unwise.
Ground crews for Sabena, the national flag carrier, ran amok during a 1996 strike day at the airport, smashing the terminal's glass walls and doing millions of francs worth of damage, then demanding more money from the very government that was going to have to pay for the repairs.
Jerry Falwell, and Mario Cuomo run amok in a long segment on the family and morality.
Even in death, there's opportunity to tut-tut about the ill effects of celebrity run amok, namely unleashing bad recipes on the masses, while simultaneously celebrating that celebrity in the form of a prominent obituary complete with a photo of both ladies with their motorcycle and sidecar.