trample

“If I keep my language and culture in a fragile little jar, someone will come along and trample it, and it will disappear forever,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026

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

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 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

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

He is so much like me when I was ten, so unlike our Mitt, whom Lelia and my father and I let raucously trample over all our custom and ceremony.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

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

This Superman is all impulsive energy, much like his unhousebroken puppy, who also wears a cape and tramples on things when he tries to help.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2025

“A regime that tramples on human rights cannot under any circumstances be recognized,” she said in a statement.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 15, 2022

Rémy walks beside the chair as it tramples over lightly frosted ground.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

"It is very unlikely that aggrieved persons, especially communities, will find relief from this board if they find their rights trampled," he told AFP.

From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2026

The Panthers were trampled by Tampa Bay, giving up 258 yards on the ground.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

That beauty would soon be trampled beneath the Japanese advance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 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

Workmen trampled his plantings and destroyed his roads.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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

The difficulty is finding a way to minimize their capacity to control territory without trampling republican values.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 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

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

Two men were working fast, trampling the straw and building it into a stack.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder