How to Use trample in a Sentence

trample

verb

• They are trampling on our rights.
• They are trampling our rights.
• The workmen trampled on my flower bed.
• Her glasses were trampled underfoot by the crowd.
• Many people were trampled to death trying to escape the burning building.
• Their most cherished traditions have been trampled.
• When the rights of one group are trampled, the rights of all are at risk.
  — Maria Revelles, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 June 2025
• If any of them would whine or cry or bark the moose would trample them.
  — Blair Braverman, Outside Online, 7 Mar. 2022
• Tourneau was then trampled by one of the elephants in the herd that the group was watching, per the AP.
  — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 22 June 2024
• Stauff was able to make it around the gate because a path had been trampled around it.
  — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 12 June 2018
• Stay on those trails and do not trample the flowers (or take any home).
  — Raul Roa, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2025
• Which was of course the straw that started the joke that may have scared the camel now trampling Mr. Colbert and his staff.
  — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 22 July 2025
• She was not shot; she was trampled as the crowd attempted to flee the scene of the shooting.
  — Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
• The two people trampled were a 30-year-old woman and a 31-year-old man.
  — Greg Norman, Fox News, 3 July 2023
• And for him to have been trampled by his own cattle, that just -- that just didn't make sense.
  — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 30 Sep. 2017
• The weed, partly trampled, was still bursting through the crack.
  — Sharon Noguchi, The Mercury News, 24 May 2017
• Over the past six hours, he had been beaten and burned, trampled and taunted.
  — Sean Williams, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
• But no one wants to be seen as trampling on the democratic process.
  — Jessie Balmert, Cincinnati.com, 5 July 2018
• One was a gunshot wound and the other was trampled as people fled the scene.
  — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 16 Feb. 2024
• As Violet gathers the courage to give it to her, the valentine ends up trampled in the snow.
  — Jenny Gold, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2025
• There’s no good way to get trampled in a playoff series, of course.
  — Dave Hyde, Sun-Sentinel.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• Tourneau was thrown from the vehicle and trampled by the elephant.
  — CBS News, 21 June 2024
• Not long, because mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord, trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.
  — kansascity, 15 Jan. 2018
• Short sellers in Hong Kong are getting trampled on by traders from the north.
  — Jacky Wong, WSJ, 15 June 2017
• The lucky one or two were on top of the pile and the others were seemingly trampled by their siblings.
  — Ernie Cowan, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 May 2018
• McIlroy’s ball had a decent lie, as the ground had been trampled on throughout the last few days.
  — Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 19 July 2025
• They may have been trampled by other seals fleeing the area after the launch.
  — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2024
• Turner was still alive when her unborn child was cut out of her and trampled.
  — P.r. Lockhart, Vox, 2 May 2018
• Then there was the story about Nagurski trampling two Steelers en route to a score in 1937.
  — Will Larkin, chicagotribune.com, 31 Aug. 2019
• The very institution created to enforce the law is trampling over the civil service laws enacted by Congress.
  — Amalia Huot-Marchand, The Hill, 25 July 2025