Example sentences for: amok

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

  • In the United States, it's capitalism mixed with greed run amok.

  • Placing the entire future of a corporation in the hands of arbitrageurs, which is what a tender offer amounts to, is the worship of property rights run amok.

  • 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.

  • Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., declared on Meet the Press , "Ken Starr is once again running amok."

  • With Daniel's arrest, tabloids have dredged up the long history of Baldwins run amok.


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