How To Use Trample In A Sentence

He was trampled to death by a runaway horse.
I was kneeling on the floor beneath his feet and nearly got trampled to death in the scrum.
The shelty came down over the rump of a red bullock, and Sim was sprawling on his face in the trampled grass. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies
Don't trample mud from your shoes on to the floor; I've just this minute swept it.
To see their team go down without a fight, to see the good name of their club trampled underfoot, to see the game laughing at them. The Sun

My idea of a desert is an eternal agony, plotted by the fury of the aridity, by the implacable confusion of a sun which, trampled by the wind, melts with the sand, until there is no other landscape than the sand dominating the sky, the ground, the wind. Flowers in the Desert
Difficulties cannot be artificially overcome," said Mirabeau, "nor is there any invention whereby a man may be spared the trouble of conquering them; they must be grasped firmly, strangled, crushed, trampled down in manful fight. Zoe: The History of Two Lives
The wounded were trampled and drowned in the shallow waves.
I don't know what you're rambling on about, Flinx," she finally declared, "but either you ride the grizel or it tramples you. Orphan Star
Don't trample on grass.
Don't trample on the grass.
As he tried to separate two bulls that were fighting, he was knocked over and trampled, receiving multiple injuries including fractures to his ribs and spine.
He argues that the Congress and President Clinton trampled the constitutional rights of legal immigrants in the new welfare reform law.
The warriors remained calm and relaxed, listening to the trample of the demonic horde just feet in front of them.
Companies that trampled over shareholders' right of first refusal over new stock would do so at their peril, they muttered darkly. Times, Sunday Times
Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals. George Washington
Or would she trample it underfoot in the slush where our love lay? Times, Sunday Times
In size there is the difference between the huge _terminalia_ towering up 200 feet high and the tiny little potentilla; between the atlas moth 12 inches in spread and the hardly discernible midges; between the elephant, massive enough to trample its way through the densest forest, and the humble little mouse peeping out of its hole in the ground. The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty
The campers had trampled the corn .
Anybody who stood in his path was trampled underfoot. The Sun
He gripped his brother's arm lest he be trampled by the mob.
But if a prince shall deign to be familiar, and to converse with those upon whom he might trample, shall his condescension therefore unking him, and his familiarity rob him of his royalty? Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II.
He slipped over the ragged mat which formed the eaves, and the next moment, _crack, crack, crack_, he was hanging feet downwards, and then fell heavily in a cloud of dust bump upon the trampled earth, in company with a snake about six feet long, which began to glide rapidly away. Trapped by Malays A Tale of Bayonet and Kris
When Leonard Bernstein unleashed his sprawling Third Symphony - titled "Kaddish" - on the American public in January 1964, the critics practically trampled one another to get in the first jabs. The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post
He heard the trample of a soldier and the muffled sound of the grenade going off.
Why do the vast tribes of India, deceived and enslaved by the bonzes, trampled upon by the descendant of a Tartar, bowed down by labor, groaning in misery, assailed by diseases, and a mark for all the scourges and plagues of life, still fondly cling to that life? A Philosophical Dictionary
The monolith brooded gaunt and silent above the sward which waved, green and untrampled, in the morning breeze. People of the Dark
Peering downwards, praying she hadn't just inadvertently trampled on Zebedee or Orlando or little Tallulah in the gloom, she grinned. TICKLED PINK
It is very apparent that you and your magazine are hypocrites and do not support untrampled backcountry where you don't hear or smell vehicles. ATVs in Wilderness
Sorry, but reality got trampled in the stampede. Times, Sunday Times
Then a clumsy foot in a cow-leather boot or heavy wooden-pegged veldschoen would be thrust out, and the boy would be tripped up and go down, and the crowd would deliberately kick and trample the life out of him, and no one would be able to say how or by whom the thing had been done. The Dop Doctor
If too many people trample on it, it will die. Times, Sunday Times
Conservation officers get the beasts to trample shacks on protected forest land in the Assam region, where hilly terrain makes bulldozers impractical. The Sun
International law has been trampled underfoot. Times, Sunday Times
Even when it tramples all over other principles that he purports to hold dear.
It's as if Victoria wants to remembered for something else except for mothering David's kids, and being trampled on at the same time.
Paul was trampled on by the home team and screamed like a pig.
People rushed for the exits and a woman of 30 trampled in the panic went into labour. The Sun
As they trample on nationalities to reproduce London and Londoners in Europe and Asia, so they fear the hostility of ideas, of poetry, of religion, -- ghosts which they cannot lay; -- and, having attempted to domesticate and dress the Blessed Soul itself in English broadcloth and gaiters, they are tormented with fear that herein lurks a force that will sweep their system away. English Traits (1856)
Ahead, the landing consisted of trampled soil, and perhaps ten canoes had already been beached and inverted to keep rain from pooling inside. Fire The Sky
Analysis has shown that the avenue was heavily trampled by prehistoric feet, and archaeologists have unearthed numerous finds along its edge.
I refuse to be trampled on any longer!
The apes, saturated and peaceful, lived in sophisticated playfulness, or caught fleas in philosophic contemplation; the Neanderthaler trampled gloomily through the world, banging around with clubs. Autumn
Little sins often slide into the soul, and breed, and work secretly and undiscernibly in the soul, till they come to be so strong as to trample upon the soul, and to cut the throat of the soul. Challies Dot Com
One woman was shot through the face, but that was not worthy of notice, for she was only a _colored woman_; and in that, as in other slave States, the laws give to the white population the liberty to trample under foot the claims of all such persons to justice. Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West
He felt a jealous chagrin as he watched them follow her into the church, an anger that she dared to trample upon him that way, a fierce desire to get away and quaff the cup of admiration at the hand of some of his own friends, or to quaff some cup, _any_ cup, for he was thirsty, thirsty, _thirsty_, and this was a dry and barren land. The City of Fire
Sorry, but reality got trampled in the stampede. Times, Sunday Times
But he was feeling so much like trampled horse turds that it wasn't until he'd read not only her organ donor card but also the name imprinted on her cheques that he realised who the woman actually was. A Traitor to Memory
There is a whiff of conspiracy in the air and it reeks pungently of Chardonnay glugging down the plug hole and just a dash of carpet-trampled kettle chips.
Later, the king sent a herd of oxen to trample his enemy, but the cattle took care not to hurt Zoroaster.
This is an incredible case of where the needs of the many are trampled on for the needs of the one.
In the meantime, the Feds have again shown a determination to trample on civil liberties to harass nonviolent protestors.
Did that basketball god who trampled my heart with his hightop get all bald and portly? Blog: Facebook, I can't quit you
Then we continued on to the Blue Lake, where eating and drinking would trample Maori sensitivities, since they regard it as a sacred spot.
Chaos and violence ensued as miners trampled over each other in the rush. Times, Sunday Times
Beavers fell trees, elephants trample plants, ants strip trees of bark, moles dig tunnels, and so the list goes on.
The pleasure he takes in humbling the proud and exalting those of low degree (v. 6): The Lord lifts up the meek, who abase themselves before him, and whom men trample on; but the wicked, who conduct themselves insolently towards God and scornfully towards all mankind, who lift up themselves in pride and folly, he casteth down to the ground, sometimes by very humbling providences in this world, at furthest in the day when their faces shall be filled with everlasting shame. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
But the technology may 'trample' civil liberties and privacy rights, warns Graeme Norton of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. Top Stories - Google News
People were trampled in the headlong rush.
This memory came just in time, enabling her to dive out of the way to avoid being immediately trampled by the sudden stampede of the rest of the Callisto family into the kitchen.
Fighting and shooting broke out, triggering a panicked stampede in which several people were trampled to death.
Somebody trampled all over my flowerbeds in the night!
They began to trample their way up the slopes yet again, the crisp snow crunching beneath their feet.
In order to further reveal his xenophobic nature, it would not be a bad idea to recall his extraordinary proposal that Gandhi should be bound hand and foot and trampled by viceregal elephants.
The panicking passengers who trampled on the dead in their desperation to flee. Times, Sunday Times
The multitude fled with precipitation towards the city; several were slain, and many more were trampled to death; but when the cavalry entered the streets, their pursuit was checked by a shower of stones and darts from the roofs and windows of the houses. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Red-hot rage may seem in order when the country's values have been trampled upon by a government with a dubious claim to legitimacy.
He caught me before I could hit the ground and be trampled by my horse.
At first the immediate landscape was beautified by wild flowers; the blue of the harebells was exquisitely set off by masses of golden St. John's wort, and on our walk to The Rocks we would trample down meadow-sweet, marsh mallow, bird's foot trefoil, and potentilla. Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
Book 12, 4:32: The dipsas is such a rare snake that its trampled without being seen. Everybody's WMAMing for the weekend...
But stumble and strain under an unceasing atmosphere of creative tension, and you'll get trampled.
The newspapers have run stories about a girl who was almost trampled to death under the feet of a church congregation as they tried to exorcise her.
The 686-acre property, while frequented by fishermen and birders, is also a popular destination for people who trample fragile marsh grasses when they go "mudding" on their four-wheelers. The Daily News - News
The magazine that was in my hand flew from my hand and up I stood like a ramrod and trampled out into the stairwell.
In his May decision, Ed W. Bankston said that the Social Security Administration "trampled upon the rights of this grievant," and her 90-day suspension was "arbitrary, capricious and a serious abuse of managerial discretion. Federal Diary: Union fights case of 'Little Rock 3,' charging discrimination
In that casual gesture she trampled upon an awesome human achievement and upon great sacrifices contributed by the natural world.
Cecelia" was rescued by an MFA investigator who found her lying in the front of her battery cage as her eight cagemates trampled her tiny body. Do You Have to Kill a Turkey this Thanksgiving?
Anything that gets in the way, from human rights to the environment, is trampled underfoot.
The goats forage, trample, and create wallows, scraping away surface material and accelerating soil erosion.
Legs flailing, they trample over each other for Weetabix and milk. The Sun
The passerby was trampled by an elephant
For the first time the Northern Expedition ran into trouble—not only at Wuhan, where one general told of having to rein in his horse so as not to trample the dead soldiers littering the ground at the front, but at Nanchang, a one-industry enamelware town in the northern part of Kiangsi. The Last Empress
There is a whiff of conspiracy in the air and it reeks pungently of Chardonnay glugging down the plug hole and just a dash of carpet-trampled kettle chips.
The victims of the crush were pushed against the walls or trampled underfoot. Times, Sunday Times
Late last year, three Chinese shoppers trampled to death in a supermarket scuffle over cooking oil.
He deserved it anyway, leaving me to be trampled on by those male pigs!
Or would she trample it underfoot in the slush where our love lay? Times, Sunday Times
This agreement, made in secret and implemented autocratically, tramples underfoot the democratic rights of refugees.
Lampton Quay is decorated with slightly over-ripe kowhai trees in full bloom; the petals trampled into the street by the suits, and what's left on the trees disheveled by the spring rains. The wellingtonista - a blog about wellington, new zealand
Elaborate security arrangements are being made in view of the two-day 'shutdown' called by banned CPI (Maoist) in Bihar from October 12 against Centre's move to "trample" its agitation with application of WN.com - Articles related to Key Democrat wants boost in forces in Afghanistan
As farmers deserve state protection of farmland, these people trample serious dereliction of duty.
Affection twined with their life, which no shocks of feeling can uproot, which little quarrels only trample an instant that it may spring more freshly when the pressure is removed: affection that no passion can ultimately outrival, with which even love itself cannot do more than compete in force and truth. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
The ability to trample the rights of fellow human beings without compunction is rooted in a belief that the needs of society outweigh the needs of the individual.
Or would she trample it underfoot in the slush where our love lay? Times, Sunday Times
Once they have been rootled up to the surface by a wild boar, or the farmer has stopped drenching his field with fertiliser, or Longhorn cattle have trampled down the bracken, they burst into glorious life. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
We will be spared the horrors of greedy, selfish and self-serving individuals who trample over people so that they can get a million dollars.
Friesians and Jerseys will have to trample a lot of washing before they become as unpopular as York's pigeons.
For, as he reelingly trampled along on the rank herbage between this forest and that sea of sand, just as he was dying of exhaustion, his faint foot trod upon a store of life and health! The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper
In Harlem, angry fans removed his records from jukeboxes and trampled them in the street.
All the bulls get excited, everybody gets trampled, and we cowpokes spend the next few days trying to gather in the strays.
He saved a little girl from being trampled underfoot in the rush for the fire exit.
This story tramples traditional disciplinary boundaries and exposes time-honored philosophical principles to direct experimental tests.
I was trampled in the rush, but regained my senses enough to join them.
They collect crowds to fill theatres, and there they introduce choirs of harlots and prostituted children, yea such as trample on nature herself; and they make the whole people sit on high, and so they captivate their city; so they crown these mighty kings whom they are perpetually admiring for their trophies and victories. NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians
He doesn't present himself as a dictator who tramples on our liberty and demands blind obedience.
It will be thrown out and trampled underfoot as worthless. Christianity Today
I have not felt like this, " said one of the other fellows, 'since I was trampled by five bosk. Rogue Of Gor
The competition was to see who, city slicker or country kid, could get closest to the bull before letting fly and still make it back over the fence untrampled. Tom Christopher: Sacred Bull
Jarred from their place by the impact when the boat struck, and papering the cabin sole with vital, unused information was a welter of neatly rolled charts which he trampled in his haste.
It will be thrown out and trampled underfoot as worthless. Christianity Today
Ay, you must know that my husband, he drank, loafed round the parish to roister and prate, wasted and trampled our gear under foot. Peer Gynt
Any expression of class solidarity was trampled underfoot and the working class suppressed and disciplined.
The campers had trampled the corn down.
For an angry but vocal minority, that is a change too far, yet more proof that they are the underdogs now, trampled beneath the stilettoes of supposedly over-mighty women. Young women are now earning more than men – that's not sexist, just fair | Gaby Hinsliff
She appears as a modestly clad woman carrying a palm of victory as she tramples on a figure with flaming hair to indicate her triumph.
Some victims were stranded with a concrete wall on one side and a precipice on the other, with nowhere to escape being crushed and trampled. The Sun
Their feet will trample on the dead bodies of their perfidious aggressors.
Somebody trampled all over my flowerbeds in the night!
What about the trespassers who trampled on his rights with impunity?
trampled the beans underfoot
Conservation officers get the beasts to trample shacks on protected forest land in the Assam region, where hilly terrain makes bulldozers impractical. The Sun
We rounded a turn and came upon all at once the tumbled ruins of a cottar's hut, blacked by fire, and trampled down as if by horse's hooves.
Many people were trampled/crushed underfoot when the police tried to break up the demonstration.
Trample them in the mire under the German heel.
She died from being trampled by a wagon cart livestock that was being shipped to the local butcher.
Initially I was more scared of being trampled in a stampede than in being effected by the tear gas.
Then we continued on to the Blue Lake, where eating and drinking would trample Maori sensitivities, since they regard it as a sacred spot.
The grass was trampled, torn, and red.
Quietly as a pantheress she stole after them, smoothing out her footprints behind her until she reached the trampled snow; and so, coming to the angle of the bachelors 'lodge, cowered listening. Fort Amity
The hunter was trampled to death by a wild elephant.
This was very barbarous and inhuman; even an enemy, in misery, is to be pitied and not trampled upon. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
Captain Glass met the first man springing up the companionway from the cabin, with a kick full in the face, but was overborne and trampled on by the rush. THE DEVILS OF FUATINO
The panicking passengers who trampled on the dead in their desperation to flee. Times, Sunday Times
Conservation officers get the beasts to trample shacks on protected forest land in the Assam region, where hilly terrain makes bulldozers impractical. The Sun
My idea of a desert is an eternal agony, plotted by the fury of the aridity, by the implacable confusion of a sun which, trampled by the wind, melts with the sand, until there is no other landscape than the sand dominating the sky, the ground, the wind. Flowers in the Desert
‘The country's relatively loose control over these companies has enabled some greedy bosses to trample on workers' rights’, she said.
Their workmen had trespassed onto the Gregorys' property, uprooted shrubs, removed rockery stones and trampled down plants.
When a tribe encounters civilization, the first things to get trampled underfoot are the religious beliefs of the tribe.
Maddalo is proud, because I can find no other word to express the concentred and impatient feelings which consume him; but it is on his own hopes and affections only that he seems to trample, for in social life no human being can be more gentle, patient and unassuming than Maddalo. The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Regulated, socialised economies trample on human dignity, despoil the natural environment and depress economic performance.
But this poor guy was liable to be trampled to death by human feet.
A knight of the realm was trampled underfoot. The Sun
It is easy to feel trampled by the relentless march of technology.
The victims of the crush were pushed against the walls or trampled underfoot. Times, Sunday Times
Jack, who did not understand this, fared badly, and it was not till the calls piped belay, that he could recover his legs, after having been trampled upon by half the starboard watch, and the breath completely jammed out of his body. Mr. Midshipman Easy
In that casual gesture she trampled upon an awesome human achievement and upon great sacrifices contributed by the natural world.
[ "Now was come about Holy-Cross Day, and now must my lord preach his first sermon to the Jews: as it was of old cared for in the merciful bowels of the Church, that, so to speak, a crumb at least from her conspicuous table here in Rome should be, though but once yearly, cast to the famishing dogs, under-trampled and bespitten-upon beneath the feet of the guests. Dramatic Romances
Don't get trampled in the rush! The Sun
It spent its final days untrampled and free from its human masters. Road Rage
Clothes were trampled underfoot, first-aid kits had been ripped open and their contents thrown across the lawn. Times, Sunday Times
Some were hopelessly ruined with damp, others torn and trampled with muddy hooves, and some were no more than fragments. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
The woods began to move, too; and, with the familiar trample of horse hooves, an army clad in drab array appeared at its edge.
I can just as easily claim my after-shave works as an elephant repellent because I haven't been trampled by an elephant. Cheney: Investigating CIA interrogations a political move
The superpower often tramples on the independence and sovereignty of other countries.
The book was for many days snubbed, buffeted, browbeaten; and the care fully-woven tapestry was torn into shreds and trampled upon; and it seemed that the patiently sculptured shrine was overtured and despised and desecrated. St. Elmo
He argues that the Congress and President Clinton trampled the constitutional rights of legal immigrants in the new welfare reform law.
No one wants to trample a new plant or compact freshly cultivated soil.
Many objects had been swept off the shelves or emptied out of boxes, and then trampled underfoot. Times, Sunday Times
People rushed for the exits and a woman of 30 trampled in the panic went into labour. The Sun
Twigs and branches snapped and burrowed deeper as their feet trampled the soft soil beneath it.
After many noisy toasts had been drunk, and none to the nation, the national cockade was said to have been trampled as the air rang with unpatriotic slogans.
but either you ride the grizel or it tramples you. Orphan Star
Don't trample mud from your shoes on to the floor; I've just this minute swept it.
A man is being trampled underfoot. Times, Sunday Times
In some few caterpillars the poison spines take the form of balls armed with short prickles and one large spike; hence they are known as caltrop spines (fig. 2, C), from their likeness to the cruel weapons, known as caltrops, which used to be scattered over the ground in time of war to repel the attacks of cavalry; the spikes forced their way into the horses 'feet when trampled on, and so disabled them. Chatterbox, 1905.
Most of the dead and injured were trampled or crushed. The Sun
People were trampled underfoot in the rush for the exit.
People like James Madison explained the problem with Majority Rule, and developed a system to ensure that Minority Opinions would always remain untrampled (this is of course part of the reason that Rhode Island has the same number of Senators as California). Bagging our principles
In his shameless attempt to grab the media spotlight, he has trampled on many of those who protected him when he was at his most vulnerable. Times, Sunday Times
No one's privacy is being invaded, no family's feeling are trampled, since we don't know who's inside each star-spangled casket.
There have been villagers in other parts of Zambia mauled by lions, trampled underfoot by elephants and hippos.
To often ambulating , trample or wear away the place such as fierce porch, can add buy sheet small blanket, avoid carpet generation is local heavy corrupt or attaint.
But she turned out to be quite a manipulative, sassy young woman, who trampled on others to get ahead. The Sun
He saved a little girl from being trampled underfoot in the rush for the fire exit.
It's not the case that it's been trampled by big conglomerate multinationals.
We should overlook the trampled grass in the square and the lowly origins of the glistening fountain.
This poor pooch flees in terror as it is nearly trampled to death by a wild horse. The Sun
His chancellor Nicephorus burst open the Latin tabernacles, and trampled on the Holy Eucharist because it was consecrated in azyme bread. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
Lisa Madigan, who is the political combine's best hope in 2010 to keep the cycle of old-style politics going, takes money from lobbyists and cronies as she works as the state's chief legal officer and says the reason she has knowingly ignored the violation of state laws by her fellow politicians is because she might "trample" on what the Feds "might do someday. Archive 2009-02-01
Some were trampled in the rush and others survived the stampede with deep psychic scars.
So in the anticolonial view, America is now the rogue elephant that subjugates and tramples the people of the world.
But God must be insulted, his name blasphemed, his laws trampled under foot, yet he must have no hell to put such a wretch in, no devil to torment him. Great Fortunes and How They Were Made
Ranging unstoppably across disciplines and topics, Fisher here sends up the "earnest addicts of stone-ground, hand-trampled, nature-cured and inevitably mildewed and weevilly buckwheat groats," a passage found in the chapter "J is for Juvenile dining. The Romantical She
It will be thrown out and trampled underfoot as worthless. Christianity Today
Guernica is etched in my consciousness as the image of defencelessness, trampled innocence, Franco's savagery.
Most of the dead and injured were trampled or crushed. The Sun
It is easy to feel trampled by the relentless march of technology.
She was trampled in the rush to get out.
Not only do the shaggy creatures trample down invasive bracken but they treat heather and bilberry with respect - unlike sheep, which munch the delicate shoots to extinction.
A resentful answer was rising to the tongue of Camilla, when she perceived her two little sprigs, which in her recent disorder she had dropt, were demolishing under the feet of Indiana, who, with apparent unmeaningness, but internal suspicion of their giver, had trampled upon them both. Camilla
Ordinary citizens were trampled in your administration and cast aside as rags when it was convenient and advantageous to you.
The victims of the crush were pushed against the walls or trampled underfoot. Times, Sunday Times
In pastures, nests face the additional risk of being trampled by cows.
Except there's no singing, just guttural animal shrieking, and the candyman has been trampled to death by Heelys. Gabriel Delahaye: LiveBlogging the Kid Nation Finale: At Last, Greg Can Go Home and Masturbate in Private
If this royal retreat has been trampled by an enthusiastic tourist - which is increasingly the case - the insect is doomed.
The world to leave, laughing soul trampled on.
Two set of feet trampled the house, and Virginia cupped a hand over her mouth, trying to silence her heavy breathing and inevitable sobs.
Many objects had been swept off the shelves or emptied out of boxes, and then trampled underfoot. Times, Sunday Times
The soldiers trampled across the fields
Conservation officers get the beasts to trample shacks on protected forest land in the Assam region, where hilly terrain makes bulldozers impractical. The Sun

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