trample

The rodents have scent glands on their feet and trample on their droppings to mark their territory.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

It was hard squaring the hulking mass of midshipmen who would nearly trample me at Herndon with these two polite teenagers prone to nervous laughter.

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026

He even gets neighboring sheep farmers to bring their herds into his fields to trample the soil and eat the leftover plants.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

The FPA called on the police to "immediately take action against the officers involved in this unprovoked assault and to act in the future to safeguard press freedoms, rather than trample upon them."

From Barron's ● Mar. 18, 2026

Have yo’ way all yo’ life, trample and mash down and then die ruther than tuh let yo’self heah ’bout it.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston

Martinique official Serge Letchimy hailed a vote that he said had come "to shatter a system that tramples on the truth, absolves the guilty, and scorns the victims".

From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026

“We are not a nation that tramples the 4th Amendment and tolerates our neighbors being terrorized,” he said.

From Salon ● Jan. 29, 2026

Williams’ charismatic goldendoodle, Alf, holds court in the studio: he tramples over Williams, curls his body around Farro’s neck like an exquisite wriggling scarf, then finally curls himself into a ball next to me.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2022

Users on the popular Sina Weibo social network have called the incident "lawless" and have posted that such behaviour "tramples on people's civil rights".

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2022

I don’t move because my cowardice tramples me, even as I try to lift my spirit from its knees.

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak

That beauty would soon be trampled beneath the Japanese advance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

A man injured in the grounds of a National Trust estate died from "severe chest injuries" after being trampled by cattle, an inquest has heard.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

And he barred the hospital from “aiding and abetting” any other party that might ask for help from these courts, including the children whose rights will be trampled by disclosure of their records.

From Slate ● May 19, 2026

From a standoff over a US Secret Service agent’s weapon to a US staffer trampled during a melee, tensions bubbled to the surface throughout Trump's visit to Beijing.

From Barron's ● May 15, 2026

She nudged it aside with her shoulder, trampled over it without a glance, and moved on.

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda

The cattle eat the vegetation as well as trampling it down to reduce "fuel load"

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

They were under strict instructions from Soils Solutions to avoid trampling the new lawn for six months.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

He saw more trash, several guests going off trail and trampling plant life, and far fewer park rangers to tell them to stop.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

Bryson DeChambeau's two-shot penalty for trampling rough that improved the line of his swing path last Friday will not be forgotten.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

Cora shooed off those children trampling her sprouts and yelled at them for digging up her yam slips, using the same tone she used at Jockey’s feasts to corral them into foot races and games.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead