ride roughshod
Example Sentences
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“Carney can pretty much ride roughshod now on the second pipeline and do it in two years,” Hampson says.
From Barron's • Apr. 23, 2026
The UK's music industry isn't particularly well integrated with Europe, tending to ride roughshod over its less influential neighbours.
From BBC • May 17, 2025
A mayor’s cowardice allows an outlaw to ride roughshod over the citizens of a desolate frontier town.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2020
“We need the ability to build consensus because it’s too destabilizing to have one half of the population trying to ride roughshod over the other,” Lind says.
From The Guardian • Feb. 2, 2020
Zach Powers, Lena Young, and their crowd ride roughshod over a lot of people.
From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman
