rampage
noun
violent or excited behavior that is reckless, uncontrolled, or destructive.
was rampaging
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past progressiveof rampage.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Signs that the virus was rampaging through communities were widespread in cities such as Beijing and Wuhan.
From Reuters ● Dec. 12, 2022
A few months ago, it was rampaging in Florida and the South; now it is in the Upper Midwest.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 26, 2021
In May 2020, when Covid-19 was rampaging through the poultry facilities, 56 percent of those who got sick were Latino workers, and Hall County had twice the infection rate of neighboring Gwinnett County.
From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2021
Swing is his stock-in-trade and it is subservient to him, the best exponent England has had since the youthful Botham was rampaging.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 2, 2013
Now he shore was rampaging all over creation last night—he didn't have no dreams nor no sleep in that bunk last night, nohow.
From Hopalong Cassidy by Clarence E. Mulford
