trampling

Example Sentences

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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

"They're just trampling over all of the graves, destroying the flowers, eating the flowers and leaving a mess behind," said David.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 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

"I imagined tearing off my veil, trampling it, ripping it, burning it," she writes -- which she did at the World Championship in Moscow in December 2019.

From Barron's • Jan. 20, 2026

But when he came in earshot he heard the trampling roar of sea on rock, where combers, rising shoreward, thudded down on the sucking ebb—all sheeted with salt foam.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer