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.
• If any of them would whine or cry or bark the moose would trample them.
  — Blair Braverman, Outside Online, 7 Mar. 2022
• Tourneau was then trampled by one of the elephants in the herd that the group was watching, per the AP.
  — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 22 June 2024
• Stauff was able to make it around the gate because a path had been trampled around it.
  — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 12 June 2018
• The two people trampled were a 30-year-old woman and a 31-year-old man.
  — Greg Norman, Fox News, 3 July 2023
• Over the past six hours, he had been beaten and burned, trampled and taunted.
  — Sean Williams, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
• But no one wants to be seen as trampling on the democratic process.
  — Jessie Balmert, Cincinnati.com, 5 July 2018
• One was a gunshot wound and the other was trampled as people fled the scene.
  — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 16 Feb. 2024
• There’s no good way to get trampled in a playoff series, of course.
  — Dave Hyde, Sun-Sentinel.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• Tourneau was thrown from the vehicle and trampled by the elephant.
  — CBS News, 21 June 2024
• The lucky one or two were on top of the pile and the others were seemingly trampled by their siblings.
  — Ernie Cowan, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 May 2018
• They may have been trampled by other seals fleeing the area after the launch.
  — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2024
• Turner was still alive when her unborn child was cut out of her and trampled.
  — P.r. Lockhart, Vox, 2 May 2018
• Then there was the story about Nagurski trampling two Steelers en route to a score in 1937.
  — Will Larkin, chicagotribune.com, 31 Aug. 2019
• Her husband was trampled to death by an elephant in March last year.
  — Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week Uk, theweek, 26 Mar. 2024
• But the thrill in this bull run is not being trampled by a stampede or impaled by horns.
  — Lorraine Ali, latimes.com, 1 July 2018
• If anybody is out of line, you can get trampled by something.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 July 2023
• Actors fall off their horses, get trampled by hooves, crack a skull or break a bone.
  — Jennifer Percy, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
• At least one of the two people that was trampled suffered broken bones.
  — Christopher Harress, AL.com, 11 Apr. 2018
• At least one person was even trampled to death by an elephant.
  — Jason Lemon, ajc, 21 June 2018
• Even at a glance, the tundra inside the pen was transformed: the sedges pruned, the moss trampled, the blueberries nibbled.
  — Bathsheba Demuth, The Atlantic, 4 Jan. 2024
• But there on the far end sat an alternate, his dream trampled and his heart broken.
  — Candace Buckner, Washington Post, 30 June 2024
• Think of a landscape that has been trampled on, that’s what women’s bodies are.
  — National Geographic, 5 Apr. 2019
• The Indianapolis Colts are looking to bounce back from their 11th-straight Week 1 loss by trampling some cheeseheads.
  — Justin L. MacK, Axios, 13 Sep. 2024
• After ruling out that the marks were made by rodents, carnivorous predators or other factors like trampling, the team matched their shape to incisions likely to be made by stone tools.
  — Rudy Molinek, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 July 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024