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Example sentences for: amok

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As a coda to our conversation yesterday about the perils of technology run amok, see today's "Work & Family" column in the Wall Street Journal , in which "A Technology Junkie Learns To Live Life a Little Less Plugged in."
Officials had "run amok" in their response to a suit filed against the government, said Lamberth, and he ordered the government to cover the $285,864 legal bill incurred by the plaintiffs.
"Once upon a time, wild-eyed boys, high on home brew and diet pills, ran amok and plowed the occasional luxury sedan into restaurants just off [Nashville's] Music Row.
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?
Parents can even be threatened with imprisonment themselves if their teen-agers run amok.