How to Use run roughshod in a Sentence

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• The Celtics have run roughshod over the rest of the league.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Dec. 2022
• Henry has run roughshod over the Colts the past six seasons.
  — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Oct. 2022
• More inbound pathogen might further increase the amount of virus that sticks around to run roughshod over the body.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2021
• As a result, the initial response in the lungs doesn’t fully rev up, letting the virus run roughshod.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 28 Aug. 2020
• Most fans remember how opposing teams have run roughshod in the past.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 4 Apr. 2021
• Rising had run roughshod over USC in them, including the Pac-12 title game.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2023
• Saban added some key pieces from the transfer portal and looked ready to run roughshod across college football.
  — John Talty | [e-mail], al, 6 Nov. 2022
• Both series seem to run roughshod over what was established in earlier movies and shows.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2022
• But these challenges don’t mean that gig companies can run roughshod over their workers.
  — Tom Spiggle, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2021
• The panel also slammed Brown for letting McMahon run roughshod during the trial.
  — John Simerman, NOLA.com, 1 Sep. 2020
• This time around, Finnegan has sealed the security holes that let his attackers run roughshod over his business.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2022
• Georgia has run roughshod over the competition with the help of its dominant defense.
  — Matt Murschel, orlandosentinel.com, 14 Nov. 2021
• The Court can deny review and once again allow the political branches to run roughshod over the promise of the Fourteenth Amendment.
  — Time, 13 Oct. 2022
• The Blackpool Combat Club continued to run roughshod backstage.
  — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
• The Gaels had run roughshod over its previous 16 opponents, outscoring them by better than a 21-point margin.
  — Jeff Faraudo, The Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2024
• Lula narrowly defeated Joir Bolsonaro, who let the loggers and farmers run roughshod over the country’s vast rainforests and the home to the Indians.
  — Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2023
• But Biden’s willingness to run roughshod over the Court signals that Americans elected a president too weak to stand up to the more extreme elements of his party.
  — Robert Delahunty, National Review, 11 Aug. 2021
• Why should anybody be reassured by the fact that the Swiss government was willing to run roughshod over principles, powerful interests, and even the law?
  — David Bach, Quartz, 23 Mar. 2023
• But despite bipartisan agreement that tech companies have run roughshod and deserve more oversight, none of the bills discussed in those hearings four years ago have been passed.
  — Cecilia Kang, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2021
• In this view, the country again finds itself in an era in which powerful companies run roughshod over their workers, their suppliers and the politicians who are supposed to maintain a balance of power.
  — H. Claire Brown, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2023
• Without Congressional oversight, a regulator can run roughshod over the law.
  — Roslyn Layton, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2021
• But the fraud allegations deepen a rift that has developed between the city and the Sheriff’s Department amidst allegations that a gang-like group of deputies run roughshod at the Compton station and celebrate shootings.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2021
• Of course, any worries that the Biden Administration is about to run roughshod over an automobile industry that's had such success working with the oil industry for over a century are simply unfounded.
  — Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 14 Nov. 2020
• Residents opposed to the companies spoke of malfunctioning cars breaking down in the middle of intersections, streets already teeming with enough motor vehicles, and robot cars allowed to run roughshod throughout the city.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 11 Aug. 2023
• And in the many American cities where cars dominate and public transport is lacking, the priority should be building new infrastructure to move people around efficiently and greenly, not allowing tech startups to run roughshod over public space.
  — Jill Filipovic, CNN, 5 Apr. 2023
• For decades, the Sheriff’s Department has been beset by allegations that gang-like groups of deputies with matching tattoos have run roughshod in several stations, glorifying aggressive policing tactics and celebrating on-duty shootings.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024