How to Use run roughshod in a Sentence

run roughshod

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• Planning is for those who want to be left behind, the tortoise gets run roughshod by the hare.
  — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 19 Dec. 2025
• More inbound pathogen might further increase the amount of virus that sticks around to run roughshod over the body.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2021
• Most fans remember how opposing teams have run roughshod in the past.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 4 Apr. 2021
• But these challenges don’t mean that gig companies can run roughshod over their workers.
  — Tom Spiggle, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2021
• Both series seem to run roughshod over what was established in earlier movies and shows.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2022
• Saban added some key pieces from the transfer portal and looked ready to run roughshod across college football.
  — John Talty | [email protected], al, 6 Nov. 2022
• As a result, the initial response in the lungs doesn’t fully rev up, letting the virus run roughshod.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 28 Aug. 2020
• Pantoja has run roughshod through the current crop of flyweight contenders.
  — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
• The arrogance of this White House team is off putting to members who are run roughshod and threatened.
  — Cate Martel, The Hill, 25 Nov. 2025
• They were not elected to run roughshod over the electorate but to represent all of us with the goal of building a more perfect union.
  — Robert Kesten, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2025
• Georgia has run roughshod over the competition with the help of its dominant defense.
  — Matt Murschel, orlandosentinel.com, 14 Nov. 2021
• This time around, Finnegan has sealed the security holes that let his attackers run roughshod over his business.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2022
• Over the last four years, Florida politicians have tried to run roughshod over the First Amendment time and again.
  — Scott Maxwell, Orlando Sentinel, 3 July 2024
• Aspinall has run roughshod through everyone he’s faced in the UFC, earning a stoppage in each of his wins.
  — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
• The panel also slammed Brown for letting McMahon run roughshod during the trial.
  — John Simerman, NOLA.com, 1 Sep. 2020
• The Blackpool Combat Club continued to run roughshod backstage.
  — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
• Chinese leaders tend to be engineers who are capable of grand projects but liable to run roughshod over individual rights.
  — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
• Rising had run roughshod over USC in them, including the Pac-12 title game.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2023
• Americans may expect the men’s team to run roughshod over the competition but – as two nail-biting wins ahead of the Games proved – the rest of the world is catching up.
  — Kyle Feldscher, CNN, 25 July 2024
• Better serve For far too long, fossil fuel, mining, and timber interests have been given license to run roughshod over the planet.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 9 July 2024
• Certain companies have allowed Russian bots to run roughshod on platforms in some cases, according to news reports.
  — Mekela Panditharatne and Shanze Hasan, TIME, 21 Oct. 2024
• But despite bipartisan agreement that tech companies have run roughshod and deserve more oversight, none of the bills discussed in those hearings four years ago have been passed.
  — Cecilia Kang, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2021
• Without Congressional oversight, a regulator can run roughshod over the law.
  — Roslyn Layton, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2021
• The Gaels had run roughshod over its previous 16 opponents, outscoring them by better than a 21-point margin.
  — Jeff Faraudo, The Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2024
• That represented a decisive victory against its big sequel competitor, which would have run roughshod over any other new release this season.
  — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Nov. 2025
• Why should anybody be reassured by the fact that the Swiss government was willing to run roughshod over principles, powerful interests, and even the law?
  — David Bach, Quartz, 23 Mar. 2023
• The Tigers have made it to the playoffs in each of the last two seasons and appeared poised to run roughshod over an eminently winnable AL Central this year.
  — Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 7 July 2026
• The Court can deny review and once again allow the political branches to run roughshod over the promise of the Fourteenth Amendment.
  — Time, 13 Oct. 2022
• In this view, the country again finds itself in an era in which powerful companies run roughshod over their workers, their suppliers and the politicians who are supposed to maintain a balance of power.
  — H. Claire Brown, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2023
• But Biden’s willingness to run roughshod over the Court signals that Americans elected a president too weak to stand up to the more extreme elements of his party.
  — Robert Delahunty, National Review, 11 Aug. 2021