Synonyms

1. trample

Sentence Examples

1. To protect their investment and prevent pedestrians from trampling the vulnerable shrubs, the government had adopted a strategy that would never survive in the United States.
2. There he lay like a tortoise enclosed in its shell, or a side of bacon between two kneading-troughs, or a boat bottom up on the beach nor did the gang of jokers feel any compassion for him when they saw him down so far from that, extinguishing their torches they began to shout afresh and to renew the calls to arms with such energy, trampling on poor Sancho, and slashing at him over the shield with their swords in such a way that, if he had not gathered himself together and made himself small and drawn in his head between the shields, it would have fared badly with the poor governor, as, squeezed into that narrow compass, he lay, sweating and sweating again, and commending himself with all his heart to God to deliver him from his present peril.
3. A force many times greater than me, like a hurricane bursting out from my skin, or a herd of wild horses trampling me under their hooves.
4. Seeing, however, that, absorbed in thought, he was forgetting to carry the bread to his mouth, he said never a word, and trampling every sort of good breeding under foot, began to stow away in his paunch the bread and cheese that came to his hand.
5. Civilians panicked, running blindly in any direction, trampling each other as they tried to escape their inevitable deaths.
6. The angry town goers forced themselves through the doors, trampling over broken window glass.
7. Panic had engulfed the village, people running in circles, horses busting through barn doors and trampling children.
8. I was afraid of trampling on every traveler I met, and often called aloud to have them stand out of the way, so that I had like to have gotten one or two broken heads for my impertinence.
9. Guards charged into the fray, trampling the bodies of dead men to reach the instigator.
10. To this I added another petition, that for the sake of my patron the king of Luggnagg his majesty would condescend to excuse my performing the ceremony imposed on my countrymen of trampling upon the crucifix, because I had been thrown into his kingdom by my misfortunes, without any intention of trading.