trample

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

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

But urbanisation has seen encroachment onto these age-old grazing routes and locals accuse the Fulani of letting their cattle trample their crops and forcing them out of their homes and fields.

From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2025

Nothing but hot, black, bare ground and delicate white filaments of ash, which stirred and crumbled under the trample of bare feet.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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

“It tramples on students’ rights,” Bonta told reporters.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2023

Williams’ charismatic goldendoodle, Alf, holds court in the studio: he tramples over Williams, curls his body around Farro’s neck like an exquisite wriggling scarf, then finally curls himself into a ball next to me.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 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

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 deserves better than having her grave trampled on," he said.

From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026

When he unleashes the Klaebo stride, his opponents know they’re about to get trampled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026

The holes in the bank, however, had runs of the usual bow shape, leading down to the chalk and then curving up again to burrows with floors of trampled earth.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

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

The fired-up hosts flooded into the England 22m in the opening two minutes, with forwards Axelle Berthoumieu and Madoussou Fall Raclot trampling over white shirts.

From BBC ● May 17, 2026

“We feel deeply that this is an open defiance and trampling of justice and the rule of law,” representatives of Zion Church said in a letter this week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026

The main house featured an elaborate sculpture of a stallion trampling a dragon in the roundabout out front.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2026

They can see nothing now, but they hear trampling underneath them, and the ear-hurting other sounds fade.

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks