Example Sentences
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.
Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of goose-step
As its goose-stepping military honor guards marched past and troops in combat uniforms and gear raced to their vehicles, jets and helicopters screeched past overhead.
—
Ann Scott Tyson,
Christian Science Monitor,
3 Sep. 2025
Variety, The Wrap, the Hollywood Reporter, the Los Angeles Times, and others goose-step to the Daily Worker, Izvestia, or Pravda.
—
Armond White,
National Review,
2 Feb. 2024
On some milestone birthdays, North Korea’s military holds huge parades with goose-stepping soldiers and powerful weapons capable of targeting the U.S. and South Korea.
—
Jiwon Song,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Jan. 2024
There are teenage call girls, pregnant adulterers, online strippers, goose-stepping racists, topless caterers, feuding relatives and men who cut off their manhood.
—
Harrison Smith,
Washington Post,
27 Apr. 2023
Ann Scott Tyson,
Christian Science Monitor,
3 Sep. 2025
Variety, The Wrap, the Hollywood Reporter, the Los Angeles Times, and others goose-step to the Daily Worker, Izvestia, or Pravda.
—
Armond White,
National Review,
2 Feb. 2024
On some milestone birthdays, North Korea’s military holds huge parades with goose-stepping soldiers and powerful weapons capable of targeting the U.S. and South Korea.
—
Jiwon Song,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Jan. 2024
There are teenage call girls, pregnant adulterers, online strippers, goose-stepping racists, topless caterers, feuding relatives and men who cut off their manhood.
—
Harrison Smith,
Washington Post,
27 Apr. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for goose-step
Verb
-
In its first-ever World Cup appearance, the team — hailing from an archipelago off the western coast of Africa with around 530,000 inhabitants — has left its fans giddy with success and its opponents, from the traditional powers of Spain and Uruguay, trudging off the field in shock.
-
Instead of getting the victory at the 2025 Travelers Championship, Fleetwood, after a messy three-putt bogey at the 72nd hole opened the door for a Keegan Bradley walk-off birdie, trudged away with his sixth runner-up finish.
Verb
-
Now city officials are being asked to stomp the gas pedal on an ordinance that could speed the demise of some of downtown’s stateliest buildings — ones that help define its character, such as the old train station on Church Street, the Kress building and the Angebilt Hotel.
-
On Monday night, a 39-year-old man wearing a Spurs jersey was stomped and punched after Game 3 while walking down West 47th Street, about 15 blocks from the arena.
Verb
-
Thursday’s mail was hand-stamped upon delivery.
-
The company that stamps its name on a custom chip and the company that captures the durable profit from it are rarely the same.
Verb
-
Moroccan supporters, who had arrived in force, marching toward the stadium amid pounding drums and chants, celebrated their team’s victory and advancement.
-
Kansas City officials have offered differing descriptions of what traffic impacts drivers should expect when thousands of Dutch soccer fans march through downtown Thursday for the Netherlands’ World Cup fan walk.
Verb
-
Investors may want to tread lightly, certain cracks are starting to emerge.
-
The paper treads similar ground as previous research, which has noted large language models’ ability to search genomes for genes that have been sequenced after a patient was first seen in a hospital.
Verb
-
If interruptions throw you off, step away briefly and return composed.
-
Bonnier hopes the exhibition brings people in who have been intimidated by stepping inside a commercial gallery.
Verb
-
Even the special effects emerge as less than spectacular — especially since Jeannot Szwarc’s plodding direction affords ample time for one to sit there and figure out just how they were accomplished.
-
But plodding through them offers little pleasure, guilty or otherwise.
Verb
-
For the first time since 2006, the Stanley Cup was paraded through the streets of Raleigh on Saturday after a phenomenal postseason run from the Carolina Hurricanes.
-
New Yorkers lined the streets of lower Manhattan Thursday morning to watch the New York Knicks parade down Broadway to celebrate the team's first NBA championship since 1973.
Cite this Entry
“Goose-step.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/goose-step. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
Copy CitationLove words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
