Examples of trample in a Sentence
Vanessa Franko, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2024
Masisi said Botswana already provides 40% of its land for wildlife and people are being trampled to death by elephants.
—Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 3 Apr. 2024
The Texas law taking effect after a Supreme Court ruling Tuesday upends long-standing norms on immigration enforcement and has sparked outcry from civil society groups worried that even U.S. citizens will have their rights trampled on.
—Maria Sacchetti, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2024
Flores has seen firsthand how smugglers and migrants have trampled through his property, at times cutting through his fences and allowing cattle to escape.
—USA TODAY, 29 Feb. 2024
Israel said most victims were trampled by crowds, but witnesses described shooting by Israeli forces and hospital doctors said most casualties were from gunfire.
—Gaya Gupta, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
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
The Israeli military said the majority of people were trampled on or run over in the incident, but witnesses said Israeli soldiers killed civilians, shooting at them and firing tank artillery shells.
—Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 17 Mar. 2024
Innocence, trust, joy — all were trampled on and dismissed in that outdated, snobbish, vicious little world that English high society constructed, endorsed and then handed over to the care of people who could be very dangerous indeed.
—Erin Hill, Peoplemag, 10 Mar. 2024
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Word History
Middle English, frequentative of trampen to tramp
14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1
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“Trample.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trample. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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