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Example sentences for "rampant"

Lexicographically close words:
ramo; ramp; rampage; rampageous; rampaging; rampart; ramparts; ramped; ramping; rampion
  1. And with this his battle-cry shaking the lonely wilds, and finding echo in a deep-mouthed howl from the brindled dog in the dingle below, the Fighting Nigger burst from his ambush, all the lion of his nature now roused and rampant within him.

  2. The holy mould produces a rampant crop of weeds, but none are permitted to spring from the pavement, which is entirely composed of tombs with slabs and monumental inscriptions smoothly laid.

  3. There was, however, a youthy and luscious twinkling in his eyes, that showed how little the passage of three-and-fifty winters had cooled the rampant sensuality of his nature.

  4. And it was comfortable to see two mangy pauper rocking-horses rampant in a corner.

  5. On the whole, the garden could not have been better seen to; though it would take a sharp eye to see the potato-vines amid the rampant grass and weeds.

  6. While all the others of us in the garden rest and sit in comfort a moment, upon the summit of the summer, it is as rampant and vicious as ever.

  7. And corruption was both rife and rampant - nepotism, cronyism, outright bribery.

  8. And they let their ingrained paranoia run rampant (Jewish conspiracies, Western spies, world plots).

  9. Surely every true minister of the Gospel needs only to know the situation and become acquainted with the black facts of rampant sin, to buckle on his armor and give battle to the hosts of iniquity.

  10. My investigations convinced me that all thus far said was true, and far more than any respectable man can know was terribly rampant every night in Chicago.

  11. Even at that distance Igraine had seen the red dragon rampant on a shield of green.

  12. There was nothing but rampant egotism upon her face, and it was evident that she trusted on Gorlois to follow her.

  13. The Assyrian devices are of various kinds; the most common is that of a king plunging a dagger into the body of a rampant lion.

  14. The water had originally been led from one to the other through small conduits, the lowest of which was ornamented at its mouth with two rampant lions in relief.

  15. The king, followed by an attendant bearing a parasol, and preceded by a rampant horse.

  16. A tree and a rampant goat, both common Assyrian symbols, complete the group.

  17. It is more pretentious than the old one, but keeps its red lion rampant as a sign, and has a bust of the novelist, standing within a niche in the front of the building as a hall-mark of its Dickensian association.

  18. The three ermines passant and rampant bear would certainly have gone together by the ears.

  19. Intercourse promotes all the functions of the body and mind, but rampant lust and sexual abuses soon destroy the natural pleasures of intercourse, and unhappiness will be the result.

  20. The duke bore the lion rampant gules of Leon as his cognizance, to represent his claim to the throne of Castille, when that was occupied by Henry de Transtamare.

  21. The lion rampant most frequently occurs, although in late years naturalism has crept in, and the felis leo is often represented standing or crouching, quite regardless of his heraldic origin.

  22. Owen Glendower also bore a lion rampant sable, "the black lion of Powyss;" his arms were Paly of eight, arg.

  23. A third consideration is Herndon's enthusiasm for the agnostic deism that was rampant in America in his day.

  24. No wonder that discontent was rampant in the land, and that Maximilian, or rather the men on whose advice he acted, was daily more and more hated.

  25. The centuries, that are but thoughts, found her a Vestal Virgin in Pagan Rome when brutes were kings, and lust stalked rampant through the streets.

  26. Unceasing war, endless bloodshed, slavery without limit, and rampant bestiality had stalked back and forth across Europe.

  27. But the fighting instinct rose rampant in me.

  28. Garrison's rampant and impersonal egotism was good politics, but bad taste.

  29. Youths even of the better classes banded themselves together to collect patriotic funds by plunder and violence, and revived those old forms of lawlessness which had been rampant in pre-British days under the name of dacoity.

  30. Rampant indignation against those whom she bitterly termed "lords of creation" was her strong tower of refuge, in which she habitually dwelt, and from the giddy summit of which she hurled would-be destruction on the doomed males below.

  31. And this special brand of ignorance is even more rampant amongst those educated asses who can read Kikero in the original than amongst uneducated asses who know not the law, and are cursed.

  32. Purity was much too rampant for that, and the means of detection too well understood.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rampant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abandoned; abundant; affluent; ample; aplenty; ascendant; ascending; average; besetting; bottomless; bountiful; climbing; common; copious; current; diffuse; disobedient; disorderly; dominant; downright; effuse; elevated; epidemic; erect; exalted; extravagant; exuberant; fat; fertile; flush; full; galore; generous; headstrong; heady; high; immoderate; incontinent; inexhaustible; insubordinate; intemperate; irrepressible; irresponsible; lavish; lawless; lax; leaping; liberal; licentious; lofty; loose; luxuriant; many; maximal; mounting; much; mutinous; normal; numerous; obstreperous; opulent; ordinary; overflowing; pandemic; plenteous; plentiful; plenty; popular; predominant; predominating; prevailing; prevalent; prodigal; productive; profuse; raised; rampant; rank; rearing; regnant; reigning; replete; revolutionary; rich; rife; riotous; rising; routine; ruling; runaway; running; saltatory; spiraling; standard; stereotyped; stilted; sublime; superabundant; teeming; terroristic; unaccountable; unbridled; unchecked; unconstrained; uncontrolled; uncurbed; undisciplined; ungoverned; uninhibited; unmeasured; unmuzzled; unreserved; unrestrained; unruly; upcast; upcoming; upgrade; uphill; uplifted; upraised; upright; uprising; upstanding; upward; usual; vertical; wanton; wealthy; wholesale; widespread; wild; wildcat; willful