Example sentences for: amok

How can you use “amok” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 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.

  • Meanwhile, Aldrich Ames and Harold Nicholson were running amok.

  • Given that premise, why couldn't one species--a bacterium or virus, perhaps--run amok and destroy all other life on earth before finally succumbing itself?

  • (See Slate 's review of his The Secret Life of Bill Clinton: The Unreported Stories .) Banned from giving interviews by a judicial gag order, Paula Jones was doing "her best to prevent their two young children running amok and raiding the fridge," while her husband spoke on her behalf, Evans-Pritchard wrote.

  • He points out that where regulators run amok, they tend to disrupt the rental market and the job market simultaneously.


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