trample

Example Sentences

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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

Partly because I hate and fear crowds, having once been knocked to the ground and trampled while lining up to buy tickets to see The Doors in 1968.

From The Wall Street Journal

An opportunity that looked like it had been trampled underfoot when the dismal visitors in Piraeus fell three goals down, was reborn thanks to Belarus, the unlikeliest of unlikely heroes of the night.

From BBC

Dangers were ever-present: One day Mr. Douglas-Hamilton was trampled by a rhino and on another he inadvertently startled a group of female elephants with calves.

From The Wall Street Journal

A woman died after being trampled by a herd of cows while walking her dog on Exmoor, an inquest was told.

From BBC