How to Use trample in a Sentence

trample

verb
  • They are trampling on our rights.
  • They are trampling our rights.
  • The workmen trampled on my flower bed.
  • Her glasses were trampled underfoot by the crowd.
  • Many people were trampled to death trying to escape the burning building.
  • Their most cherished traditions have been trampled.
  • If any of them would whine or cry or bark the moose would trample them.
    Blair Braverman, Outside Online, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Tourneau was then trampled by one of the elephants in the herd that the group was watching, per the AP.
    Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 22 June 2024
  • Stauff was able to make it around the gate because a path had been trampled around it.
    Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 12 June 2018
  • The two people trampled were a 30-year-old woman and a 31-year-old man.
    Greg Norman, Fox News, 3 July 2023
  • Over the past six hours, he had been beaten and burned, trampled and taunted.
    Sean Williams, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
  • But no one wants to be seen as trampling on the democratic process.
    Jessie Balmert, Cincinnati.com, 5 July 2018
  • One was a gunshot wound and the other was trampled as people fled the scene.
    Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 16 Feb. 2024
  • There’s no good way to get trampled in a playoff series, of course.
    Dave Hyde, Sun-Sentinel.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Tourneau was thrown from the vehicle and trampled by the elephant.
    CBS News, 21 June 2024
  • The lucky one or two were on top of the pile and the others were seemingly trampled by their siblings.
    Ernie Cowan, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 May 2018
  • They may have been trampled by other seals fleeing the area after the launch.
    Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2024
  • Turner was still alive when her unborn child was cut out of her and trampled.
    P.r. Lockhart, Vox, 2 May 2018
  • Then there was the story about Nagurski trampling two Steelers en route to a score in 1937.
    Will Larkin, chicagotribune.com, 31 Aug. 2019
  • Her husband was trampled to death by an elephant in March last year.
    Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week Uk, theweek, 26 Mar. 2024
  • But the thrill in this bull run is not being trampled by a stampede or impaled by horns.
    Lorraine Ali, latimes.com, 1 July 2018
  • If anybody is out of line, you can get trampled by something.
    Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 July 2023
  • Actors fall off their horses, get trampled by hooves, crack a skull or break a bone.
    Jennifer Percy, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
  • At least one of the two people that was trampled suffered broken bones.
    Christopher Harress, AL.com, 11 Apr. 2018
  • At least one person was even trampled to death by an elephant.
    Jason Lemon, ajc, 21 June 2018
  • Even at a glance, the tundra inside the pen was transformed: the sedges pruned, the moss trampled, the blueberries nibbled.
    Bathsheba Demuth, The Atlantic, 4 Jan. 2024
  • But there on the far end sat an alternate, his dream trampled and his heart broken.
    Candace Buckner, Washington Post, 30 June 2024
  • Think of a landscape that has been trampled on, that’s what women’s bodies are.
    National Geographic, 5 Apr. 2019
  • Video captured one of the frightened elephants running through the crowd, trampling those in its path.
    Lauren M. Johnson, CNN, 10 Sep. 2019
  • The Indianapolis Colts are looking to bounce back from their 11th-straight Week 1 loss by trampling some cheeseheads.
    Justin L. MacK, Axios, 13 Sep. 2024

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