How to Use stomping ground in a Sentence
stomping ground
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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
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Soho was the stomping ground of these London Libertines.
—Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 7 Nov. 2020
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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
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The collection was informed by his West 50s stomping grounds, with Studio 54 playing the lead role.
—Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2019
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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
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The slow-moving revival of Asbury Park—known best as Bruce Springsteen’s early stomping grounds—had stalled.
—Keiko Morris, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2019
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The matchup also marks Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray’s return to an old stomping ground.
—Dallas News, 15 Oct. 2020
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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
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The restaurant remained busy and began to attract new generations back to their grandparents’ stomping grounds.
—Laura Demarco, cleveland, 14 Mar. 2020
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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But, aside from a few quick visits to his team’s stomping grounds, Schantz has been holed up indoors, following government recommendations to practice social distancing.
—Rob Kleifield, azcentral, 26 Mar. 2020
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