trample

The rodents have scent glands on their feet and trample on their droppings to mark their territory.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

State Historic Park, wipe out dozens of trees and trample a space that was carefully designed with years of community input.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026

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

"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

I let the tears trample my face in complete silence, guilty that I couldn’t even summon the courage to speak about him.

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak

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

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

I don’t move because my cowardice tramples me, even as I try to lift my spirit from its knees.

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak

That beauty would soon be trampled beneath the Japanese advance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Raging at another exit, raging that when the chips were down too many of his fellow players panicked and allowed themselves to be overrun, raging at professional pride being trampled underfoot for all to see.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 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

She told Valentine of an incident the previous week, when she’d been walking up the road and was almost trampled by a wagon.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

Locals complain about elephants trampling crops and homes, and about crocodiles attacking people who go to rivers to wash or fish.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026

It’s sad his children didn’t learn that lesson and instead are trampling the legacy he hoped to leave behind.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 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

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

His own little prints and Merry’s were overwhelmed by the trampling of the iron-shod shoes before them and behind them and about them.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien