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
• 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
• One was a gunshot wound and the other was trampled as people fled the scene.
  — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 16 Feb. 2024
• Then there was the story about Nagurski trampling two Steelers en route to a score in 1937.
  — Will Larkin, chicagotribune.com, 31 Aug. 2019
• 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
• 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
• Video captured one of the frightened elephants running through the crowd, trampling those in its path.
  — Lauren M. Johnson, CNN, 10 Sep. 2019
• But Roku’s the small fry in a land of giants, and even if it doesn’t get trampled, its lavish stock price will keep taking hits.
  — Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2019
• The fines exist because fans can trample each other and be killed.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 20 Oct. 2022
• No spectators means no foot traffic to trample the rough over four days.
  — Doug Ferguson, Star Tribune, 5 Aug. 2020
• One of my characters could be teaching a class one day and get trampled by an elephant the next.
  — George Gene Gustines, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2019
• Remember to take only photos, not flowers, and don’t stray off the trail and trample the plants.
  — John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2024
• The mob of people swarmed the five agents handing them, pushing to try and make a line while almost trampling each other.
  — Mireya Villarreal, ABC News, 7 Dec. 2023
• The pachyderms trample the ground and topple trees, producing thousands of miles worth of trails.
  — Helen Santoro, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Oct. 2020
• Midday in peak season, its charm is trampled by tourists.
  — Rick Steves, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2023
• Rangers starter Brock Burke lasted two outs into the first inning, trampled by a six-hit, two-walk, five-run start.
  — Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News, 21 Sep. 2019
• As the crowd pressed its way forward, some began to fall, pass out and get trampled by others in the audience.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 29 June 2023
• Many species spend large portions of their lives under and on the ground, where oblivious tourists can trample them.
  — Ashley Stimpson, Wired, 13 May 2021
• Either the biddy or the hound would be trampled ’neath Beetle Bailey’s hooves.
  — Gary Gulman, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2023
• People leave trash and human waste, create secondary footpaths and trample the area around the tree.
  — Nicole Kagan, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2022
• Wild horses devour the plants and trample the streams that serve as crucial habitat for native species.
  — Maggie Shannon Jill Cowan, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2022
• Weekend 1 has lush lawns that get trampled by the hordes of music fans wandering around.
  — Vanessa Franko, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 28 May 2024