stomping grounds
Example Sentences
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“You bring a gun into the District, you mark my words, you’re going to jail,” Jeanine Pirro said in an appearance on her old stomping grounds at Fox News.
From Slate • Feb. 7, 2026
Last year’s “A Complete Unknown,” directed by James Mangold, tracked Bob Dylan in his West Village stomping grounds in the early 1960s.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 30, 2025
The group members, back in their regular stomping grounds, are now performing around South Korea and working on new music.
From New York Times • Jan. 30, 2024
Chestnut, Watkins and Stewart had been removed earlier that afternoon from the same Baltimore middle school during a visit to their old stomping grounds.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 20, 2023
Lots of people thought Captain Kidd might have buried loot on the Elizabeths, well within his stomping grounds, but no one who had gone digging for treasure out here had ever found any.
From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk
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