trample

It was hard squaring the hulking mass of midshipmen who would nearly trample me at Herndon with these two polite teenagers prone to nervous laughter.

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026

He even gets neighboring sheep farmers to bring their herds into his fields to trample the soil and eat the leftover plants.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

"In Italy, we don't want those who trample on human rights and act outside of any democratic control," he wrote on X.

From Barron's ● Jan. 27, 2026

But urbanisation has seen encroachment onto these age-old grazing routes and locals accuse the Fulani of letting their cattle trample their crops and forcing them out of their homes and fields.

From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2025

I walked behind him, careful not to trample the vines.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Martinique official Serge Letchimy hailed a vote that he said had come "to shatter a system that tramples on the truth, absolves the guilty, and scorns the victims".

From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026

“We are not a nation that tramples the 4th Amendment and tolerates our neighbors being terrorized,” he said.

From Salon ● Jan. 29, 2026

But the reference, as facile as some find it, cheapens the experience of those who survived, violates the honor of those who didn’t and tramples the memories of the descendants left behind.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2022

Users on the popular Sina Weibo social network have called the incident "lawless" and have posted that such behaviour "tramples on people's civil rights".

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2022

William sees it, spins around, and nearly tramples Jeanne and Jacob—and me.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

And he barred the hospital from “aiding and abetting” any other party that might ask for help from these courts, including the children whose rights will be trampled by disclosure of their records.

From Slate ● May 19, 2026

From a standoff over a US Secret Service agent’s weapon to a US staffer trampled during a melee, tensions bubbled to the surface throughout Trump's visit to Beijing.

From Barron's ● May 15, 2026

Auden ultimately felt that his poem was propaganda, and his sympathies came to lie rather with the common person trampled under the march of History.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

"It is not the same to have your entire self debated, ripped apart, dissected, insulted, trampled on in this chamber and more widely as though it were a mere abstract question," he said.

From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2026

It’s no effort to track him, even though he's moving so fast, since he leaves a clear, trampled path in his wake.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

That makes them prone to trampling, said Candace Fallon, a senior endangered species conservation biologist at science nonprofit Xerces Society.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026

"We don't need humans trampling flowers to add to the list of pressures that our wildlife is already facing," he said.

From BBC ● May 10, 2026

"They're just trampling over all of the graves, destroying the flowers, eating the flowers and leaving a mess behind," said David.

From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026

Hanson sees potential harm from foreign seed not adapted to the micro-climate, the contamination by nursery fungi and disruption of the native soil by planting crews trampling around.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026

A group of boys yanked the fence posts from the ground and chased each other, trampling everything underfoot.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman