steamroller

Example Sentences

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But the match flipped from the start of the second set as the home favourite steamrollered past Paul to win nine successive games, and the American could not recover.

From BBC

But President Trump, Taylor Swift and the rest left New Orleans wondering what had happened to two-time champion Kansas City Chiefs as they were steamrollered by the Philadelphia Eagles.

From BBC

It’s already abundantly clear that Trump can intimidate, corrupt, steamroller or ignore aides, legislators, donors and journalists who tell him the truth.

From Los Angeles Times

My impression is that Trump’s use of “shock and awe” is effective at making people feel the situation is hopeless and making them feel totally powerless against the steamroller of right-wing politics.

From Salon

"It was like a steamroller that crushed everything," Nasrine, a teacher who did not give her last name, told AFP in her destroyed neighbourhood in Pamandzi.

From BBC