Example Sentences

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“The stands are stomping as we came out and you get the chills,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2022

“Our house is on fire,” she declared, “and we are stomping ants in the driveway.”

From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2022

And once you use words like that you are stomping inexorably towards accusations of cultural appropriation; of grabbing the totems of cultures other than your own simply to turn a quick buck.

From The Guardian • Mar. 13, 2019

At Shihding Elementary, two older children are stomping around the playground in costumes of gray-bearded Chinese gods, trailed by a dozen children wearing conical bamboo hats, part of a traditional tea dance.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2010

I choose the bad movie option, diving for the closet and shutting myself in before Oscar’s boots are stomping across the room.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson