trampling

Example Sentences

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"We don't need humans trampling flowers to add to the list of pressures that our wildlife is already facing," he said.

From BBC • May 10, 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

"They are eating different types of grasses and trampling areas that are important for wildlife," he said.

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2026

"Look at how the food is lying on the ground. Look! People and cars are trampling it."

From Barron's • Oct. 12, 2025

Very quickly a crowd poured into the trader’s garden, trampling the plants and forming a semicircle in front of the house.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer