How to Use steamroller in a Sentence

steamroller

1 of 2 noun

• Don’t step in front of a steamroller to pick up a dime.
  — Dallas News, 22 Aug. 2021
• This was the version of her that turns into a steamroller.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 10 Sep. 2022
• Denève paced the steamroller of sound at the end beautifully.
  — Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• The defense was flattened by the Rams’ steamroller-like offense and the result was a 28-12 loss to the Rams Sunday night.
  — oregonlive, 9 Dec. 2019
• Stretching its legs through sweeping back road curves, the car’s 14-inch-wide rear tires push like a steamroller.
  — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 24 July 2021
• It’s both the unbeatable steamroller that claims the guild prizes, and the artsy indie that critics love.
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 26 Mar. 2021
• Few imagined that Ukrainian forces could hold out for very long against the Russian steamroller.
  — Lawrence Freedman, Foreign Affairs, 14 June 2022
• Sometimes a steamroller of a performance gets nipped at the last second.
  — Joe Reid, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2022
• The offense is a steamroller once more, the defense is thriving with backups and practice call-ups, and the special teams are still elite.
  — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 27 Dec. 2020
• Dombrowski put together the 2018 Red Sox, a steamroller of a team.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Oct. 2022
• Behind us like a steamroller of corruption that taunts us in the rear view and threatens to flatten us in our future.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 20 Oct. 2019
• Some believers have been hung on crosses and held over fires; others have been crushed by steamrollers.
  — George J. Marlin, National Review, 21 Oct. 2017
• The spindly Smit-McPhee may not look like a steamroller, but he’s been on quite the winning streak in the critics awards, taking home three more honors from local groups this week.
  — Vulture, 7 Jan. 2022
• Wilson’s choirboy tenor given new grit and the rhythm section bearing down like a steamroller.
  — Morgan Enos, Billboard, 2 Aug. 2019
• But faced with a higher degree of difficulty, the Sox have gone from steamroller to steamrollee.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Sep. 2021
• All the while, the Soviet steamroller was advancing inexorably from the east.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 29 Dec. 2019
• In 2018, the Red Sox were a steamroller, leads transforming with certainty into wins.
  — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2019
• By the second quarter, Maryland flipped the ignition on its steamroller.
  — Katherine Fominykh, baltimoresun.com, 22 Mar. 2021
• Raphael was a diplomat by nature while Michelangelo was a steamroller.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 2 Sep. 2020
• Who needs this steamroller of a timeline full of pluckable facts and anecdotes about what women have endured in America?
  — Connie Schultz, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2022
• This undoubtedly cleared the way for a film like Nomadland to succeed; with no Goliaths on the field, this tiny, artsy indie could become a steamroller.
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 3 May 2021
• Continuing the steamroller schedule employed by the House, the Senate is planning no hearings and no review by experts.
  — Dermot Cole, Alaska Dispatch News, 22 June 2017
• The Framers did not leave the House a secret constitutional steamroller that everyone somehow overlooked for 230 years.
  — Rob Byers, The Courier-Journal, 4 Feb. 2020
• Flatulence – emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller.
  — Rubén Rosario, Twin Cities, 17 Dec. 2019
• Then an Obama steamroller in 2012, followed by a Republican steamroller this year.
  — Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2014
• The Macron steamroller effect could be blunted with the entrance into parliament of some prickly opponents.
  — Sylvie Corbet, The Denver Post, 18 June 2017
• With the global markets on edge after Chair Powell’s communication failed so miserably, few traders have been willing to step in front of this steamroller.
  — Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2019
• The second is the disappearance of any back-end sharing of platform profits given the SVOD business model; and the third is less choice due to the steamroller of original commissioning by the streamers.
  — Angus Finney, Variety, 1 Nov. 2022
• One of the game’s most prolific outside shooters, Korver has helped Cleveland steamroller through the first two rounds of the playoffs and into the Eastern Conference finals without a loss.
  — The Associated Press, New York Times, 15 May 2017
• In the 1950s, Phillips describes a silence falling on creative mothers, as the steamroller drive for domestic conformity threatened to crush their artistic ambitions.
  — Joanna Scutts, The New Republic, 20 June 2022

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steamroller

2 of 2 verb

• Lawmakers steamrollered through amendments by opponents of the bill to avoid sending it back for further review in the House.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 4 Mar. 2018
• But the 2016 primary had the opposite effect: a scrambled field of more than a dozen candidates helped Trump to steamroller everyone else.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
• But the ease with which Mr. Sisi has steamrollered Egypt’s fractured opposition is a product of even harsher repression.
  — Declan Walsh and Nour Youssef, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2018
• For most of Tuesday's clash, the Belgian's fears were vindicated, as the Reds steamrollered his side, with Salah scoring two sublime goals and creating two others.
  — SI.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• Others feel the tech titan is trying to steamroller residents' wishes.
  — Andrew Selsky, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2020
• As the offense discovered the run game, turning Devonta Freeman into a star, the defense was steamrollered by opposing backs.
  — Ryan Kartje, Orange County Register, 13 Jan. 2017
• In positioning country music as, essentially, the music of the white rural working class, Nashville streamlined — make that steamrollered — the genre’s roots, and the ways it has always been engaged in wide-ranging cultural dialogue.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2019
• Yet enterprising brewers kept tinkering with IPAs, seeking ways to steamroller all resistance.
  — Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2022
• Monday’s first skater, Mikhail Kolyada of Russia, fell on his opening four-revolution jump, which effectively steamrollered his Elvis impersonation.
  — JerÉ Longman, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2018
• As a result, the public is often directed to attractive, shortcut weight-loss options created for the purposes of making money, while scientists and doctors document facts that are steamrollered into the shadows.
  — David Prologo, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2018
• Lawmakers steamrollered through amendments by opponents of the bill to avoid sending it back for further review in the House.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 4 Mar. 2018
• But the 2016 primary had the opposite effect: a scrambled field of more than a dozen candidates helped Trump to steamroller everyone else.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
• But the ease with which Mr. Sisi has steamrollered Egypt’s fractured opposition is a product of even harsher repression.
  — Declan Walsh and Nour Youssef, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2018
• For most of Tuesday's clash, the Belgian's fears were vindicated, as the Reds steamrollered his side, with Salah scoring two sublime goals and creating two others.
  — SI.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• Others feel the tech titan is trying to steamroller residents' wishes.
  — Andrew Selsky, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2020
• As the offense discovered the run game, turning Devonta Freeman into a star, the defense was steamrollered by opposing backs.
  — Ryan Kartje, Orange County Register, 13 Jan. 2017
• In positioning country music as, essentially, the music of the white rural working class, Nashville streamlined — make that steamrollered — the genre’s roots, and the ways it has always been engaged in wide-ranging cultural dialogue.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2019
• Yet enterprising brewers kept tinkering with IPAs, seeking ways to steamroller all resistance.
  — Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2022
• Monday’s first skater, Mikhail Kolyada of Russia, fell on his opening four-revolution jump, which effectively steamrollered his Elvis impersonation.
  — JerÉ Longman, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2018
• As a result, the public is often directed to attractive, shortcut weight-loss options created for the purposes of making money, while scientists and doctors document facts that are steamrollered into the shadows.
  — David Prologo, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2018

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