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.
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If any of them would whine or cry or bark the moose would trample them.
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Blair Braverman,
Outside Online,
7 Mar. 2022
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Tourneau was then trampled by one of the elephants in the herd that the group was watching, per the AP.
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Brenton Blanchet,
Peoplemag,
22 June 2024
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Stauff was able to make it around the gate because a path had been trampled around it.
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Denise Coffey,
Courant Community,
12 June 2018
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The two people trampled were a 30-year-old woman and a 31-year-old man.
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Greg Norman,
Fox News,
3 July 2023
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Over the past six hours, he had been beaten and burned, trampled and taunted.
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Sean Williams,
Harper's magazine,
19 Aug. 2019
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But no one wants to be seen as trampling on the democratic process.
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Jessie Balmert,
Cincinnati.com,
5 July 2018
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One was a gunshot wound and the other was trampled as people fled the scene.
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Kendrick Calfee,
Kansas City Star,
16 Feb. 2024
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There’s no good way to get trampled in a playoff series, of course.
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Dave Hyde,
Sun-Sentinel.com,
25 Apr. 2018
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Tourneau was thrown from the vehicle and trampled by the elephant.
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CBS News,
21 June 2024
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The lucky one or two were on top of the pile and the others were seemingly trampled by their siblings.
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Ernie Cowan,
sandiegouniontribune.com,
26 May 2018
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They may have been trampled by other seals fleeing the area after the launch.
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Salvador Hernandez,
Los Angeles Times,
11 June 2024
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Turner was still alive when her unborn child was cut out of her and trampled.
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P.r. Lockhart,
Vox,
2 May 2018
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Then there was the story about Nagurski trampling two Steelers en route to a score in 1937.
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Will Larkin,
chicagotribune.com,
31 Aug. 2019
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Her husband was trampled to death by an elephant in March last year.
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Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week Uk,
theweek,
26 Mar. 2024
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But the thrill in this bull run is not being trampled by a stampede or impaled by horns.
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Lorraine Ali,
latimes.com,
1 July 2018
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If anybody is out of line, you can get trampled by something.
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Abbey White,
The Hollywood Reporter,
8 July 2023
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Actors fall off their horses, get trampled by hooves, crack a skull or break a bone.
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Jennifer Percy,
Harper's magazine,
20 Jan. 2020
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At least one of the two people that was trampled suffered broken bones.
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Christopher Harress,
AL.com,
11 Apr. 2018
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At least one person was even trampled to death by an elephant.
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Jason Lemon,
ajc,
21 June 2018
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Even at a glance, the tundra inside the pen was transformed: the sedges pruned, the moss trampled, the blueberries nibbled.
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Bathsheba Demuth,
The Atlantic,
4 Jan. 2024
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But there on the far end sat an alternate, his dream trampled and his heart broken.
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Candace Buckner,
Washington Post,
30 June 2024
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Think of a landscape that has been trampled on, that’s what women’s bodies are.
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National Geographic,
5 Apr. 2019
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His lies invade and destroy, trampling the truths that stand in their way with casual, cunning brutality.
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Megan Garber,
The Atlantic,
23 Oct. 2024
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Success would unburden the House of Republican control — and create a bulwark against any effort to trample on D.C. self-determination.
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Colbert I. King,
Washington Post,
19 July 2024
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