[
US
/ˈstimˌɹoʊɫɝ/
]
[ UK /stˈiːmɹəʊlɐ/ ]
[ UK /stˈiːmɹəʊlɐ/ ]
VERB
-
make level or flat with a steamroller
steamroll the roads -
crush with a steamroller as if to level
steamroller the road -
bring to a specified state by overwhelming force or pressure
The Senator steamrollered the bill to defeat -
overwhelm by using great force
steamroller the opposition -
proceed with great force
The new teacher tends to steamroller
NOUN
- a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way
- vehicle equipped with heavy wide smooth rollers for compacting roads and pavements
How To Use steamroller In A Sentence
- Vick proceeded to steamroller the board in the manner to which we have by now become accustomed.
- Pro-hunters fear that if peers refuse to back the Commons this time the Government will use the Parliament Acts to steamroller a ban into law.
- Every person who stands up in protest against the plans makes it that little bit more awkward for the powers-that-be to steamroller ahead.
- The story is a steamroller, flattening everything in order to make its ‘big ironic point’.
- What is happening to the campaigning steamroller that was going to propel the new prophets of technocratic and meritocracy craving Labor into power?
- Back then England were steamrollering sides and we were told that they were unbeatable, especially as we were playing them at Twickenham.
- The motion was steamrollered through in the lower chamber.
- If the policies of these two disparate figures often have a tweedledum-and-tweedledee-ish look to them, then what we face is not specific party politics or individual style, but a system with its own steamroller force, and its own set of narrow, repetitive “solutions” to our problems. Tom Engelhardt: Living in the 51st State (of Denial)
- The people of Pateley Bridge feel they are being steamrollered into accepting the three-storey building being placed on a corner site on the Southlands car park half way up the High Street.
- He steamrollered the bill through Parliament against fierce opposition.