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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A scientific study concluded that foraging and wallowing bison were trampling native plant communities; altering tree canopies by rubbing against tree trunks; and undermining weed management efforts by dispersing nonnative grasses through their droppings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 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
By 10 p.m., people were trampling over each other inside the show, an act so inhumane, said Afnan Hasan, 18, that it made him recoil in anger.
From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2021
While his late worshippers were trampling his memory in the mire, the Baron von Blitzenberg, deserted and dejected, his face still buried in his hands, endured the slow passage of the doleful afternoon.
From Count Bunker: being a bald yet veracious chronicle containing some further particulars of two gentlemen whose previous careers were touched upon in a tome entitled the Lunatic at Large by J. Storer (Joseph Storer) Clouston
