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
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
By the time she replaced Steinfeld, critics were saying she was trampling upon the club’s identity.
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2012
In the '30s he defended Wall Street brokers, when he thought the SEC was trampling on their rights.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Puritanism that drove the theatres into Surrey was but part of an inexplicable movement that was trampling out the minds of all but some few thousands born to cultivated ease.
From Ideas of Good and Evil by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
