steamroller

Example Sentences

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In 2017, a hard drive containing up to 10 incomplete novels was crushed by a steamroller, in accordance with the novelist's wishes.

From BBC

Now, he said, the government’s repression of dissent “is like a steamroller” — “everyone is just being rolled into the asphalt.”

From New York Times

“I got crushed by the steamroller, but that’s what they do to babies, so.”

From Seattle Times

The human steamroller who spent his last few years suffering from dementia likely caused by a traumatic brain injury summoned his faculties to honor one of his successors.

From Los Angeles Times

They were a very good side, they steamrollered everyone until they got to us.

From BBC