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Example sentences for: amok

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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.
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.
Parents can even be threatened with imprisonment themselves if their teen-agers run amok.
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.
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.