trample
verb (used without object)
to tread or step heavily and noisily; stamp.
was trampling
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past progressiveof trample.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Musk attorney Alex Spiro contended in court motions that the SEC was trampling on Musk’s right to free speech.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 27, 2022
Before the committee’s vote, George J. Terwilliger III, Mr. Meadows’s lawyer, called on the panel to change course, arguing that it was trampling over his client’s constitutional rights and over presidential prerogatives.
From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2021
I felt like I was trampling on every single thing I believed about women not needing to be as thin as fire poles in order to be attractive.
From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2015
Civil libertarians cried that the FBI was trampling on privacy in the name of security.
From Time Magazine Archive
Just before sunset on this same day there was trampling of hoofs along the road ascending to the villa, as two horsemen, with a dozen followers, some on horses, some on mules, rode up.
From Veranilda by George Gissing
