How to Use trounce in a Sentence

trounce

verb
Definition of trouncenext
Synonyms for trouncenext
  • Even the white teams who get trounced by the Trotters get paid more than the Trotters do.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 Apr. 2023
  • That trounces the state’s overall employment growth of 5.9% in that span.
    — Isis Almeida, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Six weeks ago, Inter Miami was trounced 4-0 on the road to the Red Bulls for their worst loss of the season.
    — Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 5 May 2024
  • The Trojans have been trounced on the ground over their last three games, with 748 rushing yards allowed in that span.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2019
  • To run an 81-year-old with a 38% approval rating who just got trounced in the first debate would be a risk.
    — Ezra Klein, The Mercury News, 3 July 2024
  • Are there other dramas that trounce the series in writing and in plot?
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Either one is likely to trounce the rest of the competition.
    — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2023
  • Hogan then trounces Yokozuna in a way that makes the monstrous heel look downright foolish.
    — Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Muncie Central trounced teams in their sectional games by 50 and 60 points.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 22 Mar. 2023
  • In fact, the Dolphins were much worse than the Buffalo Bills team that the Ravens trounced, 47-3, in the season opener last season.
    — Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com, 10 Sep. 2019
  • They got trounced both times, wholly unready for the Warriors’ brand of humbling.
    — Mike Singer, The Denver Post, 27 Sep. 2019
  • The Badgers had a week off to lick their wounds after getting trounced by Ohio State, but there’s no shame in getting beat by what could be the best team in the country.
    — C.j. Doon, baltimoresun.com, 8 Nov. 2019
  • So even if the pace continues to slow throughout the year, 2021 could still easily trounce last year’s record for background checks.
    — Aaron Smith, Forbes, 2 June 2021
  • Another poll shared on the text chain showed that former first lady Michelle Obama would trounce Trump by 10 points.
    — Matt Viser, Washington Post, 3 July 2024
  • But to do so, SZA will have to trounce an array of fellow nominees, at least a few of whom have much higher profiles.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Bottoms will be robbed of the opportunity to trounce The Flash in the Best Fight category.
    — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 13 May 2024
  • Will Republicans trounce Democrats in the midterm elections?
    — Yaffa Fredrick, CNN, 2 Jan. 2022
  • But if the danger is overstated, the best in class will trounce expectations and score big returns.
    — Roger Conrad, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2022
  • But even then, the sound output was a noticeable upgrade from the Playbar and absolutely trounces the Beam.
    — Sheena Vasani, The Verge, 17 Nov. 2023
  • December's brutal schedule also includes two games against the same Avalanche team that just trounced the Hawks 5-2 and 7-3 in a home-and-home series over the weekend.
    — Jimmy Greenfield, chicagotribune.com, 2 Dec. 2019
  • Biden trounced Phillips in state after state, even as the Minnesota Democrat raised concerns about Biden's age and polling numbers.
    — Justin Green, Axios, 9 July 2024
  • Three milestones including an unassisted triple play are achieved as the Indians trounce the Robins, 8-1, and go up in the series.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 13 Oct. 2020
  • Even if Johnson had an opponent on the ballot to trounce, many of the City Council races would attract a smattering of votes.
    — Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 24 Apr. 2023
  • The Finnish's performance was far from enough as Leverkusen were trounced despite a decent outing from the shot-stopper.
    — SI.com, 14 Sep. 2019
  • If the case stays in Fulton County, the jury will come from a bastion of Democratic politics where Trump was trounced in 2020.
    — Danny Hakim, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Pro 360 handily trounced by the discrete-GPU systems across our graphics tests.
    — PCMAG, 5 May 2024
  • Reichert ran against Fletcher last year and was trounced, receiving 35.4 percent of the vote in November.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Get our daily newsletter Mr Saied trounced Nabil Karoui, a fiery businessman who ran a populist campaign aimed at the poor.
    — The Economist, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Of course, this is also a variation on a theme The Good Wife tackled, too, which is that money and power often trounce a person’s values.
    — Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 7 May 2020
  • Romney captured the nomination but was trounced by Obama in the election.
    — Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023

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