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How to use trample in a sentence

30 example sentences · verb, noun

Trample means to crush something by walking on it. Example: “The ground before the cook-tent was soft, and trampled by the girls' own feet.”

Examples of trample by meaning

verbTo crush something by walking on it.

  • to trample grass or flowers

More sentences with trample

  • The ground before the cook-tent was soft, and trampled by the girls' own feet.2017, Gertrude Morrison, The Girls of Central High in Camp. From the entry cook-tent
  • The Vices are trampled underfoo by the victorious Virtues wearing skirts and shirts of mail.2009, Janetta Rebold Benton, Materials, Methods, and Masterpieces of Medieval Art, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 261. From the entry ventail
  • Pink satin prom pumps lie under heavy studded black clompers; yellow suede midi-boots trample wafer-thin Blahnik mules.2009 June 4, Cintra Wilson, “Choose a Shoe, Any Shoe, and Hold On”, in New York Times. From the entry clomper
  • Harris Tweed tried it next and was nearly trampled by a herd of angry stegosauri.2007, Jasper Fforde, First Amongst Sequels, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 182. From the entry stegosauri
  • They are the Belgians of this controversy, trampled by armies heading someplace else.2001 February 23, Paulina Borsook, “Art's Cold Welcome on the Web”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry foofaraw
  • The only real risk we run is that of getting trampled as they go charging past.1999 summer, Robert Silverberg, “Travelers”, in The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, volume 9 (The Millennium Express: 1995-2009)…. From the entry humanflesh
  • When plaster fell from the ceiling it lay to be trampled by heavy jungle-boots.1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 22. From the entry jungle boot
  • It was extremely gorgeous and uninane, as the band and trampling made talk impossible.c. 1935, Elizabeth Bowen, [Description of the 1935 hunt ball at Bowen’s Court]; quoted in Patricia Craig, edited by Emma Tennant…. From the entry uninane
  • You lie down on the ground and ask people to trample on you."1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 25”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC. From the entry cur
  • Runaway horses trample the ground on the range.2013, Rollin Woodruff, The King's Cupbearer, page 71. From the entry frenzily
  • The words barely left the lips when there came a loud cry and a trample of hoof beats.2005, Charles R. Saint, The A.A.H.. From the entry wrap one's head around
  • INTERNET SEARCH KEYWORDS: GTS, macro, giantess, crush, trample.1999, Katharine Gates, Deviant Desires: Incredibly Strange Sex. From the entry GTS
  • He moved forward, determinedly trampling on people's feet.1967, Maggi Lidchi, Maggi Lidchi-Grassi, Earthman, page 10. From the entry earthist
  • For those that sweetliest dream and mildliest glance, most brutally they must be trampled to the earth and soiled with dust.1916, Gustaf Fröding, Selected Poems, page 138. From the entry mildliest
  • There’s a sort of deranged, gluttonous feeling, a perverse glee in seeing so many dreams trampled on by a massive cultural juggernaut.2015 February 23, “Oscars 2015: 10 things we learned”, in The Guardian (London). From the entry juggernaut
  • Billycans were lost, dropped, trampled underfoot.2010, Kerry McGinnis, Wildhorse Creek, unnumbered page. From the entry billycan
  • Hawkins wrote, “is that to make his case that enviros, ‘establishment’ scientists and the media are abusing the scientific method, he tramples it himself.”2004 December 14, Andrew C. Revkin, quoting David G. Hawkins, “New Climate Thriller: Scary, but Is It Science?”, in The New York Times…. From the entry enviro
  • Similarity of vegetation on meadows was the result of heavy grazing and trampling by large numbers of driveway sheep before the study was begun.1951 August, Albert Watts Moore, Elbert Hann Reid, “The Dalles Pocket Gopher and Its Influence on Forage Production of Oregon Mountain…. From the entry vegetation
  • He wouldn't tell me — blew up about jack-booted gestapos trampling over the leddies' rooms, and took himself off in a black temper.1948, Robert Alfred, John Walling, The Late Unlamented, page 170. From the entry jack-booted
  • Further, American and Christian concepts of love, caring, respectfulness and selflessness are trampled upon, and replaced with Trumpology, a hateful, egotistical, selfish and bullying way of dealing with others.2021 January 21, Greg Hegman, “Trump Trump’s everything if we allow him to”, in Times-News, Twin Falls, Ida., page A11. From the entry Trumpology
  • He remembers the sound of Fish thrashing under the net, how he was forcefed river until he was still and dead and trampled on by his own frightened kin.December 2014 Tim Winton, "Cloud Street" page 88. From the entry force-feed
  • Trinnetta McGrady, a 10th-grader who was trampled by students fleeing the gunman, suffered knee and back injuries but was expected to be released as well, police said.2007 October 11, Chris Maag, Ian Urbina, “Teen gunman injures 4, kills self at Cleveland school”, in Deseret News, archived from the…. From the entry McGrady
  • A member of this species is sensitive like a mimosa where his own feelings are concerned and thick-skinned like an elephant trampling over the feelings of others."2004, David Edmonds, John Eidinow, Bobby Fischer Goes To War, page 24. From the entry mimophant
  • He is a jet-setting fuhrer whose advocacy of emperorism in far-flung lands continues to evoke the images of ethnic conquest, of Storm Troopers trampling on the lesser race.1995, Daily Report: Near East & South Asia, page 62. From the entry emperorism
  • What restlessness could have made the goddess trample the earth so fast under the crepidae twisted up on her legs like the sandals of our Romanian frontier guards.1984, Romanian Review, volume 38, page 74. From the entry crepida
  • It was only the other day that Persia woke up from her age-long sleep at the call of the West to be instantly trampled into stillness by the Nation.1918, Rabindranath Tagore, Nationalism, London: Macmillan. From the entry the other day
  • “This decision marks a new era of holding the DOJ and ATF accountable when they trample the rights of law-abiding gun owners,” NAGR President Dudley Brown said in a release.2025 May 17, Max Rego, “Device that makes semi-automatic rifles fire quicker allowed by Trump administration”, in CNN. From the entry NAGR
  • At Tongguzbasti ("the boar trampled"), a remote settlement where the Keriya River trickles away into the sand, we recruited 24 camels, five Uighur camel drivers and the headman's eight-year-old son.1996 May 18, Christian Tyler, “Life stripped to its essentials in the desert”, in Financial Times, page XII, columns 6–7. From the entry Tongguzbasti
  • In San Diego, at the zoo, this cousin's four-year-old son, left loose-handed by a gossipy mother, had been drawn between the bars and trampled on by a suddenly rogue elephant.1983, Hortense Calisher, Mysteries of motion, page 167. From the entry loose-handed

Meaning of trample

  1. verb To crush something by walking on it.
  2. verb To treat someone harshly.
  3. verb To walk heavily and destructively.

Full definition of trample

Questions about trample in a sentence

How do you use trample in a sentence?
Trample is used as a verb and noun. For example: “The ground before the cook-tent was soft, and trampled by the girls' own feet.”
What is a short sentence with trample?
“to trample grass or flowers”
What does trample mean?
Trample means to crush something by walking on it.

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