How the frenzied may run

Usage examples of amok.

Godzillas, lagoon creatures, giant Gila monsters: nothing now prevents life from running amok in the shower of mutagenic material already unleashed.

So far they just had the one unconfirmed report of a suited Skin running amok.

Imagination seized on distortions and ran rampant, until quivering flesh balked at mapping the scope of an ordeal driven amok.

If the bunch of programmers who were ingenious enough to put together an elaborate decision-making package, an absurdly large parser, and an incredible number of graphics images, had still not been able to figure out all the eventualities in their little toy, then it had the capacity to run amok and do things they had never thought about.

British came into the country a week or so later, from Italy, they were surprised to find Yugoslav partisans running amok in the Carinthian and Styrian provinces.

First an unemployed salaryman had run amok with a sword, killing three people and wounding ten others before jumping in front of an oncoming train.

Four thousand addicts were so far gone they died of starvation, another eight thousand became insane and ran amok.

This was the liberal myth -- that some drug-addled egomaniac writer from Woody Creek had run amok on horse-tranquilizers, and then laid his bad trip on the local Head population.

From time to time he would run amok and abuse his power disgracefully, but in general he handled it well.

It looked like an experiment out of control, biology run amok, reality turned inside out, and I swear to God that if those kinds of secrets are hidden in the houses of this town, then the whole project has to be collapsing on New Wave right now, coming down fast and hard on their heads, whether they want to admit it or not.

Riley, who somehow managed to make her feel on edge, like an electric current had run amok inside her whenever he looked at her.

All that came to a focus, it would seem, in the two scripts he wrote for Star Trek, the classic Shore Leave and Amok Time.

Jekyll who accidentally discovers crack, smokes it, naturally, then runs amok in a blue street frenzy of fucking and slashing rarely witnessed within the precincts of an R rating.

What was that subtle, unidentified essence in the human make-up which occasionally caused Malaysians to run amok, foaming at the mouth, kriss in hand, intent on wholesale and unreasoning slaughter?

Malaysians to run amok, foaming at the mouth, kriss in hand, intent on wholesale and unreasoning slaughter?