RAMPANT in a Sentence

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Strangers, modest enough elsewhere, started up at dinners in Coketown, and boasted, in quite a rampant way, of Bounderby.

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 Meanings and Examples of RAMPANT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
rampant
 a.  unrestrained and violent; occurring without restraint
Classic Sentence:
1  Of course it was uphill work at first, and Jo made queer mistakes, but the wise Professor steered her safely into calmer waters, and the most rampant ragamuffin was conquered in the end.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN
2  Strangers, modest enough elsewhere, started up at dinners in Coketown, and boasted, in quite a rampant way, of Bounderby.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
3  The spring, long retarded by previous cold, had now begun in all its comeliness, and life was rampant.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
Example Sentence:
1  She alleged that there was rampant drug use among the male members of the group.
2  If the heaven are too crowded, we went to hell rampant.
3  The country is an economic basket case with chronic unemployment and rampant crime.
4  The reporter exposed details about rampant corruption in city government.