How to Use trample in a Sentence
trample
verb- Many people were trampled to death trying to escape the burning building.
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If any of them would whine or cry or bark the moose would trample them.
—Blair Braverman, Outside Online, 7 Mar. 2022
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The two people trampled were a 30-year-old woman and a 31-year-old man.
—Greg Norman, Fox News, 3 July 2023
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Over the past six hours, he had been beaten and burned, trampled and taunted.
—Sean Williams, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
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One was a gunshot wound and the other was trampled as people fled the scene.
—Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 16 Feb. 2024
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Tourneau was thrown from the vehicle and trampled by the elephant.
—CBS News, 21 June 2024
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They may have been trampled by other seals fleeing the area after the launch.
—Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2024
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Then there was the story about Nagurski trampling two Steelers en route to a score in 1937.
—Will Larkin, chicagotribune.com, 31 Aug. 2019
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Her husband was trampled to death by an elephant in March last year.
—Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week Uk, theweek, 26 Mar. 2024
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If anybody is out of line, you can get trampled by something.
—Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 July 2023
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Actors fall off their horses, get trampled by hooves, crack a skull or break a bone.
—Jennifer Percy, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
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Even at a glance, the tundra inside the pen was transformed: the sedges pruned, the moss trampled, the blueberries nibbled.
—Bathsheba Demuth, The Atlantic, 4 Jan. 2024
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Video captured one of the frightened elephants running through the crowd, trampling those in its path.
—Lauren M. Johnson, CNN, 10 Sep. 2019
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But Roku’s the small fry in a land of giants, and even if it doesn’t get trampled, its lavish stock price will keep taking hits.
—Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2019
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The fines exist because fans can trample each other and be killed.
—Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 20 Oct. 2022
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No spectators means no foot traffic to trample the rough over four days.
—Doug Ferguson, Star Tribune, 5 Aug. 2020
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One of my characters could be teaching a class one day and get trampled by an elephant the next.
—George Gene Gustines, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2019
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Remember to take only photos, not flowers, and don’t stray off the trail and trample the plants.
—John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2024
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The mob of people swarmed the five agents handing them, pushing to try and make a line while almost trampling each other.
—Mireya Villarreal, ABC News, 7 Dec. 2023
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The pachyderms trample the ground and topple trees, producing thousands of miles worth of trails.
—Helen Santoro, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Oct. 2020
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Midday in peak season, its charm is trampled by tourists.
—Rick Steves, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2023
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Rangers starter Brock Burke lasted two outs into the first inning, trampled by a six-hit, two-walk, five-run start.
—Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News, 21 Sep. 2019
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As the crowd pressed its way forward, some began to fall, pass out and get trampled by others in the audience.
—Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 29 June 2023
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There’s something of a lunar gold rush in progress, and astronomers want to make sure science doesn’t get trampled.
—IEEE Spectrum, 8 Apr. 2024
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Many species spend large portions of their lives under and on the ground, where oblivious tourists can trample them.
—Ashley Stimpson, Wired, 13 May 2021
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Either the biddy or the hound would be trampled ’neath Beetle Bailey’s hooves.
—Gary Gulman, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2023
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When walkways are flooded, people end up trampling the trees’ roots.
—Joel Shannon, USA TODAY, 30 June 2024
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People leave trash and human waste, create secondary footpaths and trample the area around the tree.
—Nicole Kagan, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2022
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Wild horses devour the plants and trample the streams that serve as crucial habitat for native species.
—Maggie Shannon Jill Cowan, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2022
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Concerns have also been raised about the horses trampling seagrass.
—Ryan Ballogg, Miami Herald, 14 June 2024
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