trample

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

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

Knowing she wouldn’t stand by to watch cattle trample our crops, my fear turned to confusion and I sidled up to Ma.

From "Worth" by A. LaFaye

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

"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

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

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

That beauty would soon be trampled beneath the Japanese advance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

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

And then she saw the boot prints ending in a trampled place under the tree.

From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett

Speaking about her daughters to the Telegraph in 2017, external, Law said: "They are both my colleagues in a way. They didn't follow in our footsteps, they rushed past us, trampling on us."

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

They were under strict instructions from Soils Solutions to avoid trampling the new lawn for six months.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 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 said trampling not only caused the flowers to break but also meant the ground underneath the plants becomes compacted so new plants could not grow.

From BBC ● May 10, 2026

It happened so fast that the deer stumbled and was lost in a sea of wool and trampling hooves.

From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan