How To Use Rampant In A Sentence

Rampant Victoriana tends to be a bit too fussy for me, but there were some lovely bits of jet and marcasite jewelry that called my name. Runaway, Jersey-style
My dad, despite his rampant hypochondria, had always been healthy.
Murder, rape, road rage, dacoities and rampant acts of terrorism have become an everyday affair in all the provincial capitals including the federal capital. Whether A Dictator Or Democrat: Please Explain
We have to be alert to the warning signs that our egos are running rampant. Times, Sunday Times
The rest of the book is a rampant cornucopia of sickness and murders as the noble hero, Dr. Alex Cross, attempts to find Casanova's victims, hidden deep in Casanova's sex caves. It's A Good Thing He Can't Blow My Mind

Many in southern Europe refuse to pay taxes, and rampant corruption in government and the public sector is the norm. Times, Sunday Times
In a world with a chronic 'globesity' problem spreading beyond western shores to places like India and China, products that promise to help individuals manage their weight via calorie control, fat burning, satiety, or some other mechanism, enjoy rampant demand. FoodNavigator-USA RSS
Fragmentation is rampant in the entertainment business.
It was a broken economy, rampant inflation, ineffective industry, overdominant trade unions and high taxes. The Sun
China's insatiable demand for commodities to feed its fast-growing economy has led to rampant global demand for most metals. Times, Sunday Times
They had secured a bonus point by the 25th minute, and eight more scores followed in a rampant second-half performance, with Will Greenwood and Ben Cohen both grabbing a brace of tries.
He has been at pains to assure a sceptical public of various other safeguards to check against the rampant abuses of the disinvestment process.
This definitely is a bane as complaints of constipation, acidity, obesity, indigestion, etc., are rampant among the youth.
That was in the bad old days of rampant inflation.
Crystalline hyenas ran rampant through the bailey and feasted on the fallen. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
To the banking public, the last few months must have driven home the ugly face of indiscipline which is rampant in our economy," he said in the statement. ANC Daily News Briefing
After the cold war, a trend of "New Nationalism" thoughts went rampantly in the Japanese politics, which sought for a big power position in the international politics.
She alleged that there was rampant drug use among the male members of the group.
Rampant futurism used to be an integral feature of theme parks, often sponsored by industry giants as a means of promoting their products.
Rampant inflation means that our wage increases soon become worth nothing.
The deep-rooted bad habits and many temptations of objective condition grow rampantly like the weed in heart so that pain, illness, and annoyance come to us.
When I see the faces of families burying their dead, victims of rampant crime, I can only wonder how they must feel to lose loved ones in such circumstances.
Politicians have a limited emotional range - normally just rampant egomania or self pity.
Reid said Wednesday he is taking aim at the “blatant and systematic crime that is rampant” in polygamous groups with legislation that would create a federal task force to combat crimes associated with polygamy. Polygamy in cross hairs of Senate panel
The days of rampantly commercial, craftless, contentless, corporate-driven pop, especially as practiced by artless teenage girls, are here.
Rather than expanding our understanding of national phyches, the shows tend to confirm commonly held stereotypes - of Swedes as rampantly egalitarian minimalists, for example.
In this section, the string parts are filled with acciaccaturas, whereas the brass section and the timpani are rampant and adrenaline-pumping.
International soccer authorities and law enforcement officials are struggling to combat rampant match-fixing by what they describe as sprawling networks of organized crime, a problem that has plagued the sport for decades but appears to have intensified recently. NYT > Home Page
It must provide an answer to the lack of policing, and the rampant criminality and corruption. Times, Sunday Times
Lucas couchant, and became Lucas rampant, fanged and langued gules. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)
Those poor returns may prove no more than a blip for one whose string has been rampant. Times, Sunday Times
We have to be alert to the warning signs that our egos are running rampant. Times, Sunday Times
Those poor returns may prove no more than a blip for one whose string has been rampant. Times, Sunday Times
On Hardball and its like, egos run rampant, insider jargon predominates, and agreeability, if any can be detected, is strictly limited to commercial breaks. J-School for Jerks
Camden society what the old church at Jamestown probably was, may be seen the tomb of a Tazewell, who died in 1706, on which is engraved the coat of arms of the family, -- a lion rampant, bearing a helmet with a vizor closed on his back; an escutcheon, which is evidently of Norman origin, and won by some daring feat of arms, and which could only have been held by one of the conquering race. Discourse of the Life and Character of the Hon. Littleton Waller Tazewell
June looks and feels more like February; the iridescent green of the trees and the rampant roses are oddly out of sync with the glowering grey clouds. Times, Sunday Times
In the bishops they saw pomposity and rampant corruption, disdain for biblical teaching, and addiction to ceremony. Christianity Today
A Roundel Argent charged with three Bars wavy Azure overall a Lion rampant as in the Arms the whole environed by a Chaplet of Wheat Or and debruising a Cross flory Gold.
But the heavy deceit and the gross unfairness is running rampant. Times, Sunday Times
No two adjacent doors are ever opened at the same time and the whole building is a clangour of keys and doors, enough to rapidly induce headaches and rampant claustrophobia.
The shay speak of ancient sorceries still rampant in the woods and lands yet today, tied to the Aethworking that happened more than two millenaries ago. The Codex Continual » Kharndam Guide: Twelvelands
There seems to be this misconception that she's a rampant self-publicist: the evidence I've encountered suggests precisely the opposite.
With rampant racism throughout both the government and the military, McIlwain endured hate and abuse that most Americans couldn't conjure in a nightmare as he embarked on a personal journey of courage and determination, becoming one of the country's first black fighter pilots - one of the famed Tuskegee Heroes or Villains?
This in an industry with a deserved reputation for rampant, entrenched misogyny. Times, Sunday Times
Also round about this time fleas and body lice were rampant and so most people shaved their body hair.
Costly logos, leaflets and rampant managerialism flourish while the front line often goes short of expertise, beds and medicines. Times, Sunday Times
You're expected to run rampant and be crazy. Times, Sunday Times
Jon Summers, a spokesman for Mr. Reid, said the senator had long been concerned over “rampant” levels of crime in polygamous communities, including the abuse of women and children, financial crimes like welfare fraud and tax evasion, kidnapping and extortion. Polygamous Sect to Defend 6 Members in Court and Its Practices on Capitol Hill
In many member countries the police run rampant. Times, Sunday Times
My family arms are the same, which were borne by the Gibbons of Kent in an age, when the College of Heralds religiously guarded the distinctions of blood and name: a lion rampant gardant, between three schallop-shells argent, on a field azure. Memoirs of My Life and Writings
On a chevron engrailed, two lioncels rampant, between as many crescents. Notes and Queries, Number 39, July 27, 1850
Yet the real battle for England is hoping its cricket revival is not going to be torn to shreds in this game by a rampant Aussie team who simply refuse to show any mercy to the old enemy.
He was about to defend the holy of holies from the touch of the profane; to guard the citadel of his Church from the most rampant of its enemies; to put on his good armour in the best of fights; and secure, if possible, the comforts of his creed for coming generations of ecclesiastical dignitaries. 01/01/2003 - 02/01/2003
This sort of thing is rampant in the public sector though so hardly qualifies as news.
Internet hyperbole was still rampant and some Wall Street types, sensing a mega investment banking deal in the works, raved about the huge valuation this business would command.
Kind of like Ed Hardy and outward homophobia, bacne caused by rampant steroid abuse, ... The Frenemy: Unnecessary & Disturbing Celebrity Perfumes (PHOTOS)
It should aim to make us aware of the injustices still rampant.
Mixed with the rampant hormones of the teen years, this combination becomes as explosive and unstable as nitroglycerine.
A communist and uncompromising anti-militarist from well before Hitler rose to power, he was born Herzefeld and anglicised his name as a protest against rampant nationalism during the war.
We're also told we're experiencing rampant house price inflation which will undermine inflation targets.
Rampant fanaticism and tawdry, insolent antics only hurt the feminist cause.
Moving on, let's tackle my presumed rampant egomania.
Once you've got over all the rampant misogyny and gratuitous, comic-book violence, it's an entertaining night in.
We have to be alert to the warning signs that our egos are running rampant. Times, Sunday Times
The weeds and rampant vegetation seem to be dying off, as if the owner has run amok with a weedkiller can a few years too late.
This was as real an investigation into homelessness as Dynasty was a searing critique of rampant capitalism. Times, Sunday Times
The country is an economic basket case with chronic unemployment and rampant crime.
If the heaven are too crowded, we went to hell rampant.
If developers rampantly fail to produce good software, but the company exceeds earnings estimates anyway, how many of those rears will be actually on the line?
The reason for the glaring disparity in sex ratio is female foeticide, which is rampant in society. The Hindu - Front Page
-- _Quarterly_, 1 _and_ 4, _gules, three lions passant guardant in pale or_ (ENGLAND); 2, _or, a lion rampant within a double tressure flory and counterflory gules_ (SCOTLAND); 3, _azure, a harp or, stringed argent_ (IRELAND). The Handbook to English Heraldry
Rumors were rampant that he had quit the team and might transfer to Ohio State, where he had made a recruiting visit.
And in this town called irony, hipster royalism is rampant. Times, Sunday Times
His TV show is an unwatchable spectacle of rampant egomania.
Biblical illiteracy is running rampant within many contexts. Christianity Today
Her first glimpse of it was through elaborate iron gates set between two large stone pillars surmounted by rampant lions.
The glamour has faded away, because of the weak main building and the rampant plants growing inside and outside.
Nowadays, rampant adaptations of movies and TV series are driving me crazy.
For the next act of our little drama I sat silently while she complained, nodding my head so much I looked like a sufferer of rampant titubation.
Make sure, though, that you have room to grow them: Wisterias are vigorous, even rampant growers.
The country is an economic basket case with chronic unemployment and rampant crime.
Our national emblem should be not the Lion Rampant but the mole.
In the city, corruption runs rampant, from the government offices to the gangland hangouts of underworld figures.
The downturn in the technology sector put a swift end to IT recruitment trends characterised by inflated salaries and rampant job-hopping at all levels.
* And if descriptivism is rampant, would prescriptivism be "couchant"? Languagehat.com: REALLY MISPLACED.
Sierra Leone was the object of similar plunder, leaving an acephalous state in rampant disorder only to be stabilised by British Tommies.
The rampant crowds were like ancient Viking barbarians, smoking heavily and taking down alcohol in large gulps.
Instead, there are signs of growing public revulsion over assembly-line executions and rampant police brutality and corruption.
Supposedly lock-ups and graphical flaws run rampant, but I only encountered one small bug throughout my playing the game.
In another area I have strawberry plants running rampant over the ground around the other plants. I'm using Purple Brocade ajuga in another because I have a lot of gold foliage there and I like the contrast.
We have to be alert to the warning signs that our egos are running rampant. Times, Sunday Times
Obviously if UFOs are as rampant as people claim, SETI would be overloaded with messages of extraterrestrial intelligence.
Parasitism and criminality have become rampant in our corporate circles.
It is a similar picture in thousands of villages across China, where population growth has meant rampant farming and wasteful irrigation.
The government has yet to announce details on how it will implement the program that is expected to reduce rampant corruption and pilferage in the current state public distribution system. India's Food Security Law to Cost More
I have long thought that the motto 'in vino veritas' contains in it far more of 'veritas' than is dreamt of in most people's philosophy, and that the age of rampant total abstinence is the age of special falseness. My Life as an Author
This would entail currency devaluation, debt default, a banking crash and rampant inflation. Times, Sunday Times
Cholera was rampant in the district.
They lived in cramped rooms above the tiny clinics in the slums, often afraid to go out after dark because of the rampant crime. Times, Sunday Times
It was actually, on a field vert, a griffin rampant sable, langued gules. Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett
It's no secret that crystal meth is rampant at circuit parties all around the country.
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One of the more insidious invasions of our privacy rights is the rampant spread of drug tests in the American workplace.
But you should turn those feelings of pity into feelings of rampant envy.
Six foot tall, slim and with a deceptive unassuming air, his blond hair and cadaverous cheek bones say rampant sex drive packaged as boy next door.
Stand still long enough and you'll likely become part of the landscape yourself, quickly covered with the rampant ivy creeper that drapes itself like an emerald dustsheet over every untended acre.
Pickpocketing is rampant in the downtown area.
Online rumors and misinformation are rampant and can spread like wildfire.
A conclusion of rampant anti-Catholic bias in America, where the highest court in the land counts six Catholics among its nine members, could reasonably be described as a figment of somebody's over-hyped imagination. Jon O'Brien: The Empire (State Building) Strikes Back: Cutting Bill Donohue's King-Kong-Sized Ego Down to Size
I pass a rabble of rampant orange-clad Dutch fans dressed as boy scouts wearing huge cartoon clogs, larging it up, singing and laughing.
Just four years after the council leader criticised police for allowing ‘rampant lawlessness’ to grip the city's clubland, they are now the envy of the rest of the country.
The military reverberations of the word "vulnerable"-unguarded, unfortified, defenseless-as well as its more visceral associations-exposed, naked-I felt intensely as I thought about the hard attitude rampant today that everyone is on his or her own, not only poor families struggling to survive (cuts to welfare), but also children (cuts to education) and the elderly (cuts to Medicare and Social Security); and the ruthless attitude equally rampant today that no one owes anybody anything, that any "sacrifice" in the name of the public good, of the world we share together, our commonwealth, is too much to ask of anyone. NPR Topics: News
Evidently, statin boosterism is just as rampant among British cardiologists. Archive 2003-06-01
Transition to Christianity: Art of Late Antiquity, 3rd - 7th Century A.D." offers a corrective to the rampant consumerism of our day with a condign lesson in Christianity's classical roots and intense devotions while also reminding us that a trade in objects flourished from its earliest times. Transformational Objects
Boris, who I love dearly, is furious about the rampant double standards of those dreadful Tabloid Newspapers. Archive 2007-02-18
The core academic ethos involves commitment to truth, reason, untrammelled inquiry, free speech and collegiality, but this is increasingly being turned on its head by rampant anti-intellectual managerialism.
He hated this place and all it stood for-- rampant consumerism, fast food, and bad taste. GING GANG GOOLIE IT'S AN ALIEN
There is only one toiletry area where my X-chromosome imbalance bursts rampantly out of its dark but perfumed closet: I like a good bubble bath. Times, Sunday Times
June looks and feels more like February; the iridescent green of the trees and the rampant roses are oddly out of sync with the glowering grey clouds. Times, Sunday Times
Though corruption has been rampant among the subordinate ranks, senior officers, by and large, were not tainted by corruption.
Once you've got over all the rampant misogyny and gratuitous, comic-book violence, it's an entertaining night in.
The funds crunch faced by the government, coupled with rampant corruption has made sure the public health system goes from bad to worse.
Overpopulation and rampant species loss are ‘unfounded or undue concerns.’
Lies, Damn Lies, and False Rape Statistics yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Lies, Damn Lies, and False Rape Statistics'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: A rather angry and somewhat incoherent rant about rampant "misandry" on college campuses spurred both editorial concern and heated "discussion" at OpEd News yesterday.' Lies, Damn Lies, and False Rape Statistics
His estranged guitarist, songwriting partner and soulmate since childhood, had succumbed to cocaine, aloof behaviour and rampant egomania.
They would rather be running on wind power than contributing to the environmental problems associated with rampant use of non-renewables.
Fiscal irresponsibility is deregulating everything and allowing greed to run rampant. Think Progress » Mitt Romney Claims That President Obama’s Words ‘Support’ 911 Truthers Abroad
I expected to meet a creature of almost heraldic grimness -- rampant, disregardant, gules. Set in Silver
The rampant smuggling once again shows how imperative and urgent it is now to bring domestic fuel prices closer to international levels.
It is most prominent at this time of year, after the snow and before the rampant vegetation covers the worse excesses.
So I can't be entirely down on therapy, but all this rampant self-obsession still alarms me.
Here the hedges are best, not trimmed in brutal tidiness but rampant with hip-laden roses and garlanded by vivid bryony berries; and sprouting pithy wands of elder, strong grey spears of ash and angular spikes of black berried sloes.
However, in 1986 its conference included enough rampant members to reject this list and to propose candidates from the floor of the meeting.
The ’superior’ attitude tells a great deal: inadequacy is rampant in the ‘dr’. Think Progress » Florida Doctor Warning Away Obama Voters Admits He Doesn’t Know What He’s Talking About On Health Care
Their views are the result of a fallen and sinful human nature, of rampant egotism and arrogance, and nothing more.
Not many works loudly proclaim the virtues of suspicion, disloyalty, uniformity and rampant egotism. The Times Literary Supplement
Diseases that we in the West think are gone, like small pox and polio are still rampant in this country.
Nature disasters taken place frequently at the same time, especially flood and neighbor provinces' bandits, were an important factor in the rampant brigandism of He Bei area.
a symbol of rampant female sexuality, the bower is a ubiquitous image throughout the eighteenth-century, appearing in texts ranging from Thompson's The 'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_
After the rain came a spell of humid weather, bringing with it rampant rot. Times, Sunday Times
The back-cover biography assures you in rampant detail that he knows whereof he speaks.
On the day Laois were cruelly punished as a rampant Tyrone side tore them apart and cruelly exposed their frailties.
Again, it’s the sick and twisted Calvinist virus running rampant in evangelicalism today. Think Progress » Gregg: Not ‘A Lot Of People’ Would ‘Really Care’ If Democrats Use Reconciliation To Finish Health Care
From the Iron Cross t-shirts and the leather jackets to the greasy pompadours and rampant alcoholism, this is a high-octane outfit that would scare your mom and dad into thinking Eminem is a ‘nice boy?’
It's the first sign of rampant Americanization: the underlining of every theme and emotion, the explanation of every plot point, the thorough predigestion before the gruel is spooned into our mouths. NYT > Home Page
Harry Hadden-Paton as Young Marlow is one moment a picture of paralysed inhibition, and the next a rampant lech pawing the ground like an impatient stallion. She Stoops To Conquer
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, released in 2007, almost finished him off, as his hesitant courtship of a fellow Hogwarts student (the demure Cho Chang) proceeded simultaneously with the onslaughts of a rampant snakelike essence from within his own brain. Sex and the Single Wizard
While in the West the spirit of commercialism is rampant, one is almost obliged to address people more in connection with business interests, and one is almost always sure to be asked what dollars are in view. The Navy and the Empire
Even if detailed studies of molluscan anatomy were forthcoming, the shell of molluscs would be of little use in cladistic analysis because of rampant convergence.
Sterility and sexual apathy ran rampant after the Last War, and sex was encouraged to promote repopulation.
I sometimes allow rampant letterfit adjustment (uneven spacing) and excessive glyph scaling to allude to the lack of state-sponsored childcare options.
Between the pending seventh book and the fifth film, news will run rampant across the globe.
Not to mention the rampant rent-seeking resulting from idiocies such as chlorhexidine mouthwash being prescription only for humans, while available otc in veterinary formulation. The Volokh Conspiracy » Could Senator Dodd’s Consumer Protection Bureau Regulate Dentists?
These unhealthy developments have led to thorough demoralization in the bureaucracy, rampant indiscipline and all round inefficiency.
As an outspoken industry insider insider meaning when inside my garage I absolutely abhor the New and Improved over Old and Inferior mktg rampantly blazed into out eyeballs. The Irrelevancy of Time: Bicycle Products Don't Spoil
Rampant bacchanalia may be what actually promotes his night owl tendencies.
Inflation is rampant and industry in decline.
Fragmentation is rampant in the entertainment business. Vertical integration of media conglomerates adds pressure to the marketplace and the creative process.
Rampant regardant - on hind legs, tongue hanging out Archive 2008-05-01
Amid evidence of rampant corruption, soaring unemployment and deep welfare cuts, watch out as other embattled leaders seek to divert attention from trouble at home. The Sun
The country is an economic basket case with chronic unemployment and rampant crime.
Avoid rampant non-natives species such as Canadian pond weed and rapidly spreading duckweeds and water ferns.
China's music-festival industry shares certain qualities with the country's other big businesses: huge potential, eye-popping expansion, rampant imitation, meddlesome government officials. A Pioneer In Chinese Music Festivals
Rampant inflation means that our wage increases soon become worth nothing.
In the bishops they saw pomposity and rampant corruption, disdain for biblical teaching, and addiction to ceremony. Christianity Today
Fragmentation is rampant in the entertainment business. Vertical integration of media conglomerates adds pressure to the marketplace and the creative process.
Heraldry — abatement, cadency, clarion, escutcheon, jessant-de-lys, rampant, talbot (I could go on for close to a thousand words as classical heraldry uses Norman French) The Logophile « Write Anything
A huge human foot d'or, in a field azure; the foot crushes a serpent rampant whose fangs are imbedded in the heel.
The vigorous, almost rampant tree is very productive in both spring and fall.
Despite the defeat the players put up a brave fight but simply had not enough firepower to overcome a rampant Cork outfit.
Clearly friend inflation is rampant. Times, Sunday Times
The state of the economy and the rampant spread of methamphetamine use has many not caring how they go about getting the tourist to hand over the money.
The huge cash influx has raised fears of rampant corruption and financial mismanagement. Times, Sunday Times
Numerous simple declarative sentences, at times virtually unconnected conceptually, and rampant use of the passive voice make the book difficult to read.
She alleged that there was rampant drug use among the male members of the group.
The recent events are nothing but reflections of a sick society where rampant corruption, political vendetta and laxity in criminal justice are the order of the day.
If the heaven are too crowded, we went to hell rampant.
Our invading empire is the sin raging rampantly within us. Under the fig tree
Shortages for low-income Torontonians were once again rampant, rents were spiraling and evictions were increasing.
The country is an economic basket case with chronic unemployment and rampant crime.
Opium and other narcotic addictions were rampant among the upper classes.
And yes, they need sun-drenched days to produce the rampant vines that manufacture carbohydrates that sweeten the fruits.
He says theological illiteracy is now rampant.
Craig's platform is a veil of obfuscating rhetoric and quasi-philosophical logic see his "possible worlds" argument combined with a pretty rampant fideism hiding behind a facade of rationalism. Chris Hitchens meets the Christians | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
It isn't possible!" interrupted Don Ramon excitedly, in mingled horror of the masculinely rampant Mrs. Markham and admiration of the fascinatingly feminine Mrs. Brimmer; "a lady cannot be an orator -- a haranguer of men! The Crusade of the Excelsior
She turned angrily to her brothers, her eyes blazing with fierce indignation and rampant fury.
It was a time of rampant discrimination, racism, homophobia and sexism.
It's wilfully eclectic and rampantly idiosyncratic.
The arms on the memorial to John Pierrepont are -- A lion rampant within eight roses in orle. Notes and Queries, Number 190, June 18, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
Unfortunately for me, I developed early and, in the course of doing so, sprouted rampantly growing patches of thick, dark fur all over my body.
Many people further argue that corruption is rampant among civil servants because of poor remuneration.
True, Newt Gingrich will pay $ 300, 000 to reinforce this image of fund raising run rampant.
And what a saucy lot they were in the early Sixties with rampant double entendres and camped-up characters running amok amid the laughter.
They could be doing more, especially to stop brazen looting and rampant lawlessness that has added terror to the tragedy in the city.
Groups of winged sphinxes and griffins trampling fallen goats alternate with rampant goats and seated griffins.
While ecological problems are not the sole province of the Third World, it is there that the largest population increases are expected, where central governments are weakest, and where tribalism is rampant.
Donors need to stop the rampant bilateralism‟ and the often-contradictory policies and priorities that plague the IHRC. Georgianne Nienaber: Haiti Still Buried Under the Rubble of Dueling NGOs: OXFAM Report
Although they can be controlled by hard pruning after the flowers have faded, it might be better to plant something less rampant in the first place.
Hence it is that not a muffineer in all Mayfair lacks its lion couchant or its mermaid rampant. Flush: a biography
Innovation is running rampant in this whole arena, and new businesses are being incubated at a rate never seen before in the industry.

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