How to Use trounce in a Sentence

trounce

verb

• Even the white teams who get trounced by the Trotters get paid more than the Trotters do.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 Apr. 2023
• That trounces the state’s overall employment growth of 5.9% in that span.
  — Isis Almeida, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2023
• The Trojans have been trounced on the ground over their last three games, with 748 rushing yards allowed in that span.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2019
• Are there other dramas that trounce the series in writing and in plot?
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
• Either one is likely to trounce the rest of the competition.
  — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2023
• Muncie Central trounced teams in their sectional games by 50 and 60 points.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 22 Mar. 2023
• In fact, the Dolphins were much worse than the Buffalo Bills team that the Ravens trounced, 47-3, in the season opener last season.
  — Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com, 10 Sep. 2019
• They got trounced both times, wholly unready for the Warriors’ brand of humbling.
  — Mike Singer, The Denver Post, 27 Sep. 2019
• The Badgers had a week off to lick their wounds after getting trounced by Ohio State, but there’s no shame in getting beat by what could be the best team in the country.
  — C.j. Doon, baltimoresun.com, 8 Nov. 2019
• So even if the pace continues to slow throughout the year, 2021 could still easily trounce last year’s record for background checks.
  — Aaron Smith, Forbes, 2 June 2021
• But to do so, SZA will have to trounce an array of fellow nominees, at least a few of whom have much higher profiles.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Nov. 2023
• Will Republicans trounce Democrats in the midterm elections?
  — Yaffa Fredrick, CNN, 2 Jan. 2022
• But if the danger is overstated, the best in class will trounce expectations and score big returns.
  — Roger Conrad, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2022
• But even then, the sound output was a noticeable upgrade from the Playbar and absolutely trounces the Beam.
  — Sheena Vasani, The Verge, 17 Nov. 2023
• December's brutal schedule also includes two games against the same Avalanche team that just trounced the Hawks 5-2 and 7-3 in a home-and-home series over the weekend.
  — Jimmy Greenfield, chicagotribune.com, 2 Dec. 2019
• Three milestones including an unassisted triple play are achieved as the Indians trounce the Robins, 8-1, and go up in the series.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 13 Oct. 2020
• Even if Johnson had an opponent on the ballot to trounce, many of the City Council races would attract a smattering of votes.
  — Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 24 Apr. 2023
• The Finnish's performance was far from enough as Leverkusen were trounced despite a decent outing from the shot-stopper.
  — SI.com, 14 Sep. 2019
• If the case stays in Fulton County, the jury will come from a bastion of Democratic politics where Trump was trounced in 2020.
  — Danny Hakim, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2023
• Reichert ran against Fletcher last year and was trounced, receiving 35.4 percent of the vote in November.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Aug. 2023
• Get our daily newsletter Mr Saied trounced Nabil Karoui, a fiery businessman who ran a populist campaign aimed at the poor.
  — The Economist, 17 Oct. 2019
• Of course, this is also a variation on a theme The Good Wife tackled, too, which is that money and power often trounce a person’s values.
  — Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 7 May 2020
• Romney captured the nomination but was trounced by Obama in the election.
  — Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
• So even though Android will likely continue to trounce Apple in this area, Apple likely doesn’t care all that much.
  — Yoni Heisler, BGR, 18 Nov. 2021
• Republicans will be tempted to cheer, thinking Mr. Trump would trounce Mr. Sanders.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2020
• Chief among those issues is the economy, on which Republicans currently trounce the Democrats by twelve points.
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 13 July 2023
• Mr Zelensky won office by trouncing Petro Poroshenko in an election.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• Part of the reason Biden has remained so durable despite cringe-inducing moments is that Democrats, more than anything, want someone who can trounce Trump next year.
  — Time Staff, Time, 21 Nov. 2019
• Then, they got trounced by 16 percentage points in a record-breaking special election runoff for a statehouse district in the Houston suburbs.
  — James Barragán, Dallas News, 30 Jan. 2020
• Which is why watching Will trounce through eight seasons in a collection of clean, sleek outfits felt delightful for this new Vogue writer.
  — André-Naquian Wheeler, Vogue, 19 July 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024