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
• She was not shot; she was trampled as the crowd attempted to flee the scene of the shooting.
  — Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
• 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
• Not long, because mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord, trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.
  — kansascity, 15 Jan. 2018
• 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
• Barricades were toppled, glass was broken, and kids were trampled in the line.
  — Dan Morrison, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024