trample

Example Sentences

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Ever since streaming figures were incorporated into the countdown, golden oldies have trampled over contemporary hits every December.

From BBC

Higher in the mountains, the evidence of BTAZ’s grazing was even clearer: swaths of ground chewed and trampled bare, discarded plastic piping, cow feces and bones in an unfenced creek.

From Salon

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

He urged his mount forward until Penelope and Simon had no choice but to step aside or be trampled.

From Literature