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

Joe Middleton, Devon site manager for the Woodland Trust, said: "Stay on the path, keep your dog on a lead, use the zoom on your camera, don't trample all over them."

From BBC ● May 10, 2026

The FPA called on the police to "immediately take action against the officers involved in this unprovoked assault and to act in the future to safeguard press freedoms, rather than trample upon them."

From Barron's ● Mar. 18, 2026

Fortunately the katoblepones had cleared off, or he might have just sat there and let them trample him.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

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

"The fascination of glow worms for me is that they are in effect magic," says ecologist Pete Cooper, as he tramples through thistles and nettles.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2023

Like soldiers who kill their comrades with friendly fire, a hyperactive immune system can cause collateral damage, triggering an inflammatory cascade that tramples not just viruses, but also healthy cells throughout the body.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 20, 2021

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

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

Even sacred sites — with signage directing visitors away from the area — have been trampled by crowds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

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

He lifted up from the trampled dust what was left of the cloak and kissing it again and again carried it to the mulberry tree.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

The cattle eat the vegetation as well as trampling it down to reduce "fuel load"

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

He saw more trash, several guests going off trail and trampling plant life, and far fewer park rangers to tell them to stop.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

“Neither Udio, nor any other generative AI company, can be allowed to advance toward this goal by trampling the rights of copyright owners.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

The fired-up hosts flooded into the England 22m in the opening two minutes, with forwards Axelle Berthoumieu and Madoussou Fall Raclot trampling over white shirts.

From BBC ● May 17, 2026

She found Branch underfoot and picked him up to keep him safe from so many trampling feet.

From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry