trample upon
Example Sentences
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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
Not even the creature’s eloquence moves Victor to self-reflection: “O Frankenstein, be not equitable to every other, and trample upon me alone, to whom thy justice, and even thy clemency and affection, is most due.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
No more driving a couple hours from College Park to Charlottesville to make fun of U-Va. preppies and trample upon Thomas Jefferson’s lawn.
From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2014
Mr. Radich was charged with violating a law that stated, “No person shall publicly mutilate, deface, defile or defy, trample upon or cast contempt upon” the American flag.
From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2012
She was a disagreeable little woman, no longer young, who had quarreled with almost everyone, owing to a temper which was self-assertive and a disposition to trample upon the rights of others.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
