How to Use stomping ground in a Sentence

stomping ground

noun

• The mall was their stomping ground.
• The Giants often make their final visit to Bochy’s stomping grounds in the final month of the season.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 31 July 2019
• Soho was the stomping ground of these London Libertines.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 7 Nov. 2020
• At the Putnam Avenue storefront on closing day, the mood was somber, with baristas and customers alike mourning the loss of the stomping ground.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Dec. 2022
• The collection was informed by his West 50s stomping grounds, with Studio 54 playing the lead role.
  — Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2019
• Now, working on Ifill's old stomping ground, Hays is proud to help her idol's legacy continue.
  — Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 9 Feb. 2022
• The slow-moving revival of Asbury Park—known best as Bruce Springsteen’s early stomping grounds—had stalled.
  — Keiko Morris, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2019
• Your father-in-law is going to love this custom portrait that'll transport him to a favorite childhood home or old stomping ground.
  — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 27 Apr. 2022
• The seals’ main stomping ground is the eastern shoreline of the Outer Cape, which extends like a forearm from the peninsula’s southern elbow to its northern fist.
  — Sarah Sax, Wired, 17 July 2021
• The neighborhood’s wealthy habitués flee the city for breezier country homes, leaving their tony stomping ground deserted.
  — Kareem Rashed, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2022
• The funky, bohemian burg where beachgoers can skateboard, shop for dream catchers or balance their chakras is now the stomping grounds of tech giants like Google.
  — Emily Alpert Reyes, latimes.com, 4 Feb. 2018
• Rackspace is subleasing part of its Windcrest headquarters for the first time since turning the boarded-up Windsor Park Mall into its stomping grounds more than a decade ago.
  — Madison Iszler, ExpressNews.com, 1 Aug. 2019
• The 123-pound big cat has maintained a nocturnal existence around his usual stomping ground near the Hollywood sign in Griffith Park.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2022
• South Plantation High School is inviting its alumni to return to their old stomping ground to celebrate the school’s 50th anniversary.
  — Brett Shweky, sun-sentinel.com, 16 Nov. 2021
• The matchup also marks Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray’s return to an old stomping ground.
  — Dallas News, 15 Oct. 2020
• Surprisingly, former teen idol Miranda Cosgrove led the charge by making a stylish return to her old stomping ground.
  — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 11 Apr. 2022
• The restaurant remained busy and began to attract new generations back to their grandparents’ stomping grounds.
  — Laura Demarco, cleveland, 14 Mar. 2020
• Beyond the space station beckons another old NASA stomping ground—the moon, which has become newly lucrative.
  — Clive Thompson, The New Republic, 3 Dec. 2020
• Jackson was back in his old South Florida stomping ground on a Thursday night, ready to add luster to his campaign as a national audience bore witness.
  — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 16 Sep. 2022
• Islamorada is home to one of the densest populations of sportfishermen in the world—and a stomping ground for tournament-grade boat captains.
  — Outside Online, 22 Dec. 2022
• Hardly the graveyard of empires as its mythology boasts, Afghanistan's valleys have been a stomping ground for cruel and powerful conquerors, who hacked, raped, stole and burned, then moved on, finding no good reason to stay.
  — George Stanley, jsonline.com, 30 Aug. 2021
• The scientists placed geophones, which convert ground vibrations into electronic signals, near the stomping grounds of wild elephants in Kenya.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 9 May 2018
• The reality stars popped by the famous cartoon character’s stomping grounds before hitting up a stand selling treats like matcha cheesecake and Harajuku crepes.
  — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 3 Mar. 2018
• The country is also the stomping ground of a staggering array of microbial organisms and the region is well known as a wellspring of novel human pathogens, some with big household names and others little known.
  — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 19 Aug. 2013
• Poshmark, frequented by a slightly older buyer, sees itself as not merely a selling tool but also as a social stomping ground.
  — Patricia Marx, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
• The investigation takes readers to a bar where Ben Johnson has scratched his initials on a table, Oscar Wilde’s stomping grounds, and into secret societies.
  — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Oct. 2017
• Poland has a history of being a stomping ground for larger, more powerful countries, and Warsaw’s purchase of nearly 1,300 new American and South Korean tanks is a strong signal those days are over.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 31 Aug. 2022
• That means outside American consulates and embassies, with clandestine bombs and raids targeting troops and civilians, and maybe even tourists far from the region's traditionally fraught stomping grounds.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2020
• And the cats stomping grounds, between Macedonia and Albania, faces threats from logging, road-building, over-hunting, and hydropower development.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 15 June 2017
• Hollywood studios are stopping the release of films, while Europe is no longer a nearby stomping ground but an ever-more-inaccessible universe, brimming with anger at Russians.
  — Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 16 Oct 2024