How to Use rampage in a Sentence

rampage

1 of 2 verb
Definition of rampagenext
Synonyms for rampagenext
  • Rioters rampaged through the streets of the city.
  • At night hyenas rampaged through the area while lions called.
    — Peter Browne, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Kekuta Manneh rampaged through the heart of Reykjavik's back line to set up McLaughlin for 2-1 in the 25th minute.
    — Pat Brennan, Cincinnati.com, 21 Feb. 2020
  • It's been just over a month since Hamas terrorists rampaged through the kibbutz of Kfar Aza.
    — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 15 Nov. 2023
  • That did not keep her, in November 2008, from going to the polls in Charlotte, the city where the Klan had rampaged past her home.
    — Margalit Fox, New York Times, 21 May 2018
  • Large parts of Europe are under lockdown as the virus rampages through the region.
    — David Goldman, CNN, 18 Mar. 2020
  • But as covid-19 began to rampage through the country and hit her, she was seized with a new urgency to find him.
    — Lisa Selin Davis Washington Post, Star Tribune, 28 Sep. 2020
  • Racists with tiki torches had just rampaged through town and were poised to come back for a second day.
    — Hannah Allam, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Trucks rampaged around the track, seemingly without a plan.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The cell phone video shows dozens of young Israeli men swarming by the half dozen gas pumps, shouting in anger, rampaging past the queuing cars.
    — Nic Robertson, CNN, 1 Apr. 2023
  • That key difference meant that when flames crossed the road this time, the fire rampaged through a town still teeming with residents and tourists.
    — Lewis Kamb, NBC News, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Through it all, Reeves somehow barrels through the picture with equal parts rampaging force and Zen-like cool.
    — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2023
  • There is rarely a good time for Godzilla to show up, but the MonsterVerse version of him could not have picked a worse moment to rampage again.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The squad fought off the rampaging terrorists valiantly.
    — David Harsanyi, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The movie picks up where the last movie ended, with dinosaurs rampaging through the fictional Isla Nublar.
    — Fortune, 1 July 2018
  • Against a barrage of rolling, tumbling, rampaging air mattresses, a kid tries in vain to keep one down.
    — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2019
  • The best way to dodge incoming bullets is to tap the controller’s left bumper which makes your masked gunslinger twirl around like a rampaging dervish.
    — Washington Post, 21 June 2019
  • Pathogens do not rampage like malevolent armies on the march, causing damage in direct relation to the scale and pace of their spread.
    — Time, 3 Feb. 2020
  • But fungi did not rampage onto our turf from some foreign place.
    — Maryn McKenna, Scientific American, 19 May 2021
  • In Sderot alone, rampaging Hamas fighters killed 50 people that day.
    — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Dec. 2023
  • After the invasion of #Volgograd, the horde have been rampaging in the stadium.
    — Steve Rosenbloom, chicagotribune.com, 21 June 2018
  • The virus now rampaging across China could be much more damaging.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 9 Feb. 2020
  • Back in his heyday, rampaging runs up-field were commonplace for the colossus.
    — SI.com, 10 Oct. 2019
  • The massive landslide buried dozens of poor miners and their families as Typhoon Mangkhut rampaged across the country's north.
    — Aaron Favila and Joeal Calupitan, Fox News, 19 Sep. 2018
  • Hamas carried out that objective on Oct. 7, rampaging through Re’im and overrunning parts of the base.
    — Adam Goldman, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Their killing prompted settler mobs to rampage through the Palestinian town of Huwara last week, killing one Palestinian.
    — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Outside, Russian troops were rampaging through the town, killing civilians who ventured into the streets.
    — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Elections took place in 2016, but violent armed groups still rampage against almost anyone who gets in their way.
    — Dionne Searcey, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2019
  • The killing of the four Israelis at Eli set off waves of reprisals as Israeli extremists rampaged through Palestinian towns and villages, setting fire to homes, cars and fields.
    — Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 5 July 2023
  • The rampaging waters breached the facility, flooding the glass-making furnace and the prep kitchen, the company said in a message.
    — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2023
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rampage

2 of 2 noun
  • Then what should police do the next time the fight club goes on a rampage?
    — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023
  • By the end of the rampage, a professor and eight students were dead.
    — Will Lanzoni, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2023
  • Little progress has been made on the east side in the year since the deadly rampage, Taylor said.
    — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 8 May 2023
  • Videos of the rampage showed many protesters with phones aloft, filming the scene.
    — André Spigariol, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Please don’t go on any shooting rampage like some fool.
    — Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 8 Apr. 2023
  • The movie needs an excuse to send his angry father on a rampage.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Just one day later, a 20-year-old killed eight and injured 14 in a rampage through a town just south of Belgrade.
    — Chris Massaro, Fox News, 6 June 2023
  • Among those killed during the roughly four-minute rampage were a 3-year-old boy and his parents.
    — Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 9 May 2023
  • Unlike the real bear, which died, this one goes on a deadly rampage.
    — Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 23 Feb. 2023
  • By the end of the gruesome rampage, two other victims were also dead.
    — Holly Yan, CNN, 30 Aug. 2023
  • This wild comedy shows an apex predator on a rampage for blow—and blood.
    — Josie Howell | Jhowell@al.com, al, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Six students and a teacher were wounded in the shooting rampage.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 8 Dec. 2023
  • By then, the deadly rampage at Covenant School had already started. 10:13 a.m.
    — Dakin Andone, CNN, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The wolves’ spree continues, claiming the lives of more than two dozen sheep and three alpacas—the survival of predators or a bloody rampage.
    — Sebastian Mulder, The New Yorker, 12 July 2023
  • Harrowing scene: The deadly rampage forced students to jump out of windows and run for their lives.
    — CNN, 14 Feb. 2023
  • In the aftermath of the rampage, the community searched for meaning.
    — Michael Williams, Dallas News, 8 May 2023
  • Amid the spat, Billy and Mayfair are shot to death by Snow and Spruce, causing the mayor to go on a rampage in town to find their murderers.
    — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 17 Nov. 2023
  • In fact, some buyers that very first year felt these cars were a little too hardcore, and at the same time Shelby was on a rampage to cut costs.
    — Ben Stewart, Popular Mechanics, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The shooter fired 152 rounds during the rampage, police said Monday.
    — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Wednesday's shooting rampage is the latest in a series of mass shootings that has made 2023 one of the most violent on record.
    — USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Fifty-eight people were killed in the rampage — two others died later — and roughly 500 were wounded.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Pain over both shooting rampages has crossed party lines.
    — Will Weissert and Tom Davies, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Fed up with the ultimatums around child-rearing, Nya stars de-Andreing her house in a rampage.
    — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 23 June 2023
  • As white vigilantes go on a rampage, the prospect of safety for runaways lies just across the border in Mexico.
    — Alida Becker, New York Times, 5 May 2023
  • These rampages have become quaint and kitschy, safe enough to be parodied by Austin Powers and Pee-wee Herman.
    — Robert Rubsam, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The titular bear, inspired by a real-life bear, eats a bunch of cocaine after some coke dealers heave it from the sky, and goes on a rampage.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Robert Card, 40, is accused of killing at least 18 people during his rampage on Wednesday night.
    — Jack Birle, Washington Examiner, 26 Oct. 2023
  • And these types of acts of rampage violence have been happening for long since before Covenant, but Covenant brought it to Nashville.
    — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 17 Dec. 2023
  • In Wednesday’s rampage, residents in Turmus Ayya said some 400 settlers marched down the town’s main road, setting fire to cars, homes, and trees.
    — Isabel Debre, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 June 2023
  • McDonald again described the rampage through the school — step by step, explaining the shooting and what classmates were injured and killed.
    — Gina Kaufman, Detroit Free Press, 18 Aug. 2023

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