How to Use rampant in a Sentence

rampant

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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
  • In the ’70s, there was wife-swapping, and there had been rampant cheating throughout the decades.
    — Rachel Rabbit White, ELLE, 5 May 2023
  • One of the most consistent themes: higher-ups turning a blind eye to rampant abuse.
    — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2023
  • According to the Gothamist, Avant Gardner has been dogged by concerns of rampant drug use.
    — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The club wasn’t providing drugs for anyone, but drugs were rampant.
    — Rachel Rabbit White, ELLE, 5 May 2023
  • The city has struggled like many in recent years with homelessness, rampant drug use, and crime.
    — ABC News, 19 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Even though her and other dogs’ suffering was rampant and violations of the law were clear, the USDA failed to act.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Power, food and water shortages are rampant as the conflict devastates large parts of the country.
    — Sana Noor Haq, CNN, 28 Apr. 2023
  • On the Rosebud Reservation alone, Waln says, poverty is rampant.
    — Alaa Elassar, CNN, 9 Oct. 2023
  • But off-screen, drama regarding the show's future (and Kevin Costner's involvement) has been the source of rampant rumors.
    — Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 5 May 2023
  • The world has faced no shortage of crises recently, from the pandemic and a scarcity of baby formula to the war in Ukraine and rampant inflation.
    — Gabriella Beaumont-Smith, National Review, 8 May 2023
  • Attorney Ben Crump argued the hazing culture was rampant throughout the team.
    — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 19 July 2023
  • The project comes after Cruise inked a splashy (but not exclusive) deal with Warner Bros. last month, leading to rampant speculation over what the pact would yield.
    — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2024
  • In many areas of the country, ramps were once rampant, but not anymore because of overharvesting.
    — Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Conversely, during the 1970s (not shown on graph), stagflation was rampant as consumer prices rose and the economy struggled.
    — Mike Patton, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The Zuck did, and now speculation is rampant about whether or not that will actually happen.
    — Wes Davis, The Verge, 1 July 2023
  • There are many reasons that this has been (and should be) the case, not least of which is the rampant chaos of fifty states crafting their own rules and, as a result, interfering with U.S. foreign policy.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2024
  • But for now, at least, there’s satisfaction in holding to account at least some of the fraudsters and cheats who enabled his rampant wrongdoing.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2024
  • Unfortunately for Musk, there are a fair amount of Jewish people on X — many, if not most, of whom can read, and thus have a sense of how rampant antisemitism is on the platform.
    — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Direct pipelines were a luxury, and the risk of waterborne diseases was rampant.
    — Anna Schecter, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Musk and Netanyahu met in September in California, where the two men did in fact discuss the issue of rampant antisemitism on X.
    — Simon Marks, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2023
  • That said, speculation has been rampant for years that Michaels, who turned 79 in November, will see the show through its 50th season before hanging it up.
    — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Those initiatives helped lay the groundwork for the recorded music industry’s year-on-year recovery from the lows of just over a decade ago when piracy was rampant.
    — Richard Smirke, Billboard, 20 July 2023
  • What Renee suffered and Bethenny exposed is not just rampant but part of a dirty industry secret.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 3 Jan. 2024

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