Example Sentences

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Marque Lawyers' managing partner Michael Bradley said the festival had "trampled" on Abdel-Fattah's human rights and the board would have to answer for it.

From Barron's • Jan. 12, 2026

Northern Ireland's McIlroy was annoyed that LaCava had trampled on the line of his own putt as he celebrated Cantlay sinking a 30-footer.

From BBC • Sep. 30, 2023

"The fundamental fruit of 25 April was, and undoubtedly remains, the affirmation of democratic values, which fascism had trampled upon and which we find carved into the Republican Constitution," she said.

From Reuters • Apr. 25, 2023

Later on Thursday, Mr. Smollett’s legal team released a statement saying the court system had trampled “the presumption of innocence” in a “law enforcement spectacle that has no place in the American legal system.”

From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2019

I didn’t think Josephine could have looked more shocked than if a tarantula the size of a horse had trampled through the room.

From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling