trampling
Example Sentences
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Even then, before anyone had discerned the global fingerprints of PCBs or climate change, the founders of the Wilderness Society realized that most places had some history of human habitation; most places had experienced some sort of trammeling.
From Slate • Aug. 29, 2014
The law’s call to protect places “where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man” has always been poignant, and our enthusiasm for trammeling seems greater every year.
From Slate • Aug. 29, 2014
But for me, the darker scenario in 1984 is the reimagining of the English language into Newspeak, and the trammeling of thought it implies.
From The Guardian • Aug. 14, 2012
Enjoyment means some trammeling, however, and at times Hoagland seems almost apologetic that his body must accompany his senses into the wilderness.
From Time Magazine Archive
That was the part of his new courage of self-denial stripping itself of every trammeling association of sentiment.
From Over the Pass by Palmer, Frederick
