trample
verb (used without object)
to tread or step heavily and noisily; stamp.
were 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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"When I was on the floor, people were trampling me," the 30-year-old told the BBC.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
“I felt like they were trampling on one’s dignity.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2023
His upbringing, he later wrote, was the kind of “pleasant, orderly” world “the Beats were trampling on in the fifties and sixties.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 5, 2022
His upbringing, he would later write, was the kind of “pleasant, orderly” world “the Beats were trampling on in the fifties and sixties.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 4, 2022
Some we were trampling under foot: the rest had swept on and into the town.
From The Adventures of Harry Revel by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
