Sentence examples for rampage from inspiring English sources

The word "rampage" is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used as a verb to mean to "engage in a violent behavior, destroy property, or injure people, especially in a sudden, uncontrolled way." For example, "The madman went on a rampage, setting fire to several cars before he was subdued by the police."

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rampage

noun

A course of violent, frenzied action.

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The first leg in Rome was marred by trouble when Feyenoord fans went on the rampage, causing damage to a 500-year-old fountain which experts said cannot be repaired.

As they barrelled towards the crowd it looked less like a frenzied rampage than a slightly irritated jog.

But as Walsh's promotional rampage continues, it's his ongoing love-hate-mainly-hate relationship with former co-judge Cheryl Fernandez-Versini that most intrigues.

Despite giving few details, officials were careful to distinguish the planned shooting from a "terrorist" attack, their characterization of the attack that paralysed Ottawa in October when a troubled man went on a shooting rampage in parliament.

"The four-day rampage demonstrates that the LRA remains a serious threat to civilians and is not a spent force, as the Ugandan and Congolese governments claim," said a HRW report published this week.

The sight of the notorious hooligan Ivan Bogdanov in the crowd seemed symbolically significant of a lack of desire or ability among the Serbian authorities to police the game and a reminder of the close links between Belgrade's ultras and Arkan's murderous rampage across the region in the late 90s properly.

Might Jurassic World be the moment that Stegosaurus finally shines, perhaps in a plot where it discovers that its wife has been having an affair, and goes on a vengeful rampage?

The son of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour, seen swinging from the Cenotaph and kicking a shop window during a drink and drug-fuelled rampage at a student fees protest, has lost his appeal against his 16-month prison sentence.

Two Melbourne teenagers planned to run down a Victorian police officer, behead him, take his weapon, then go on a violent rampage until they were both dead, a Melbourne court has heard.

A tiny school district in Idaho far removed from law enforcement has purchased firearms and trained a handful of staff to use them should the same school shooting rampage that has occurred across the country take place.

Investigators found five guns and a laptop computer in the vehicle of a man suspected of killing three people in a shooting spree, a police chief said on Sunday, but they hadn't yet uncovered any motive for the rampage.

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