rampaged; rampaging
: to rush wildly about
: a course of violent, riotous, or reckless action or behavior
Examples of rampage in a Sentence
Verb
Rioters rampaged through the streets of the city.
Noun
some crazy guy went on a rampage in the public library and started grabbing books off the shelves and tossing them around
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New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 9 July 2025
Survivors shared terrifying stories of being swept away and clinging to trees as rampaging floodwaters carried trees and cars past them.
—Jim Vertuno, Chicago Tribune, 7 July 2025
Idaho Statesman, 10 July 2025
The police would arrest and release two suspects before finally arresting Danny Rolling, a Shreveport, La., native who would later confess to a triple homicide in his hometown and shooting his own father in the weeks before his Gainesville rampage.
—Jeremy Helligar, People.com, 5 July 2025
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Verb
This is not a game; until the kooks and zealots rampaging over the public health infrastructure are constrained, many people could die.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 9 July 2025
Survivors shared terrifying stories of being swept away and clinging to trees as rampaging floodwaters carried trees and cars past them.
—Jim Vertuno, Chicago Tribune, 7 July 2025
Noun
In January 2015, John Lee, 29, killed three people, including his adoptive mother, and injured a fourth during a shooting rampage in Moscow.
—Idaho Statesman, 10 July 2025
The police would arrest and release two suspects before finally arresting Danny Rolling, a Shreveport, La., native who would later confess to a triple homicide in his hometown and shooting his own father in the weeks before his Gainesville rampage.
—Jeremy Helligar, People.com, 5 July 2025
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“Rampage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rampage. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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rampage
2 of 2 noun
ram·page
ˈram-ˌpāj 
: a course of violent or reckless action or behavior
rampageously
adverb
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