Example Sentences

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“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

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

We were trampling our way over heavy rocks of dark grey color, which, while cooling, had been moulded into six-sided prisms.

From A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Verne, Jules