How to Use rampant in a Sentence

rampant

adjective
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  • But back in the days when Covid was rampant, the fate of the five-song suite was up in the proverbial air.
    — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The company said rampant crime in the area forced it to shut down.
    — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 11 Apr. 2023
  • In the ’70s, there was wife-swapping, and there had been rampant cheating throughout the decades.
    — Rachel Rabbit White, ELLE, 5 May 2023
  • And there’s so many of those guys running rampant — Hawke: Boys.
    — Jen Yamatostaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Parlor talk is rampant over the three men rumored to be in the veepstakes' top tier: Govs.
    — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Ballots are in the mail, attack ads are rampant and canvassers are out in full force.
    — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 24 Oct. 2024
  • One of the most consistent themes: higher-ups turning a blind eye to rampant abuse.
    — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2023
  • The belief that lying is rampant in the digital age just doesn’t match the data.
    — Big Think, 24 June 2024
  • According to the Gothamist, Avant Gardner has been dogged by concerns of rampant drug use.
    — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The rampant growth in Douglas County has put us at risk of running out of water.
    — The Denver Post, 11 Oct. 2024
  • The club wasn’t providing drugs for anyone, but drugs were rampant.
    — Rachel Rabbit White, ELLE, 5 May 2023
  • Unemployment was rampant in our region, and many of us felt a push to flee.
    — Sarah Stankorb, The New Republic, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The city has struggled like many in recent years with homelessness, rampant drug use, and crime.
    — ABC News, 19 Nov. 2023
  • In the last presidential election, the rampant spread of fake news played a big hand in Bolsonaro’s win.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Fear is rampant in the global workplace and drives many of our decisions.
    — Bonnie Low-Kramen, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Small businesses struggling with rampant crime in East San Jose are about to get some help.
    — Devan Patel, The Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2024
  • But the issue has only become more perverse and rampant in the 20 years since she was rescued.
    — Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 3 Apr. 2023
  • At the time, gambling was rampant, not only among fans of baseball but among players, as well.
    — David Hill, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2024
  • But New York’s history is cyclical, and a generation later, rampant crime is again the talk—and the scourge—of the town.
    — Edward Kosner, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Impulse purchases at Buc-ee’s are rampant among folks of all ages.
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 20 Nov. 2022
  • Gasoline was scarce, power and water shortages were rampant, leading to chaos on the streets.
    — Linda Chase, Sun Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2024
  • Fraud is rampant around the holidays, which means a greater likelihood of airline fraud.
    — Marisa Garcia, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The culprit behind the declines, the researchers say, is rampant overfishing.
    — Dino Grandoni, BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2023
  • They are driven out by low wages, rampant crime and food scarcity and inflation.
    — Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Anti-Catholic bigotry that was rampant in America at the time of Coyle’s slaying, Davies said.
    — Greg Garrison | , al, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The measures give teeth to efforts to address the city’s open-air drug addiction crisis — and the street crime and rampant homelessness that come with it.
    — Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2024
  • The gene gives them a selective advantage in places like Africa, where malaria is rampant.
    — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2023
  • At the same time the rich-mom aesthetic (from Gisele Bündchen to Demi Moore), which can be summed up in white denim, has been rampant.
    — Selene Oliva, Glamour, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Turns out the Falcons were missing a handful of starters and dozens of players were weakened by illness that ran rampant through the roster.
    — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Hunger there is rampant as the amount of humanitarian aid reaching the north has plummeted over the past month.
    — Melanie Lidman and Samy Magdy, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2024

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