stampeding

present participle of stampede

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of stampeding The hilariously surreal visual of 17 children stampeding through suburbia like a herd of angry elephants with murderous intent required some clever cinematic trickery. Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
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Verb
  • Mischief in the mind of Cole Martin, the defensive back, moonlighted as a magician and snatched the direct snap before darting through a crease and churning ahead for a trick of a first down.
    Ira Gorawara, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Inevitably, someone ended up swinging a quilt around to mimic the great snake’s darting heads and churning coils.
    Seamus Sullivan September 29, Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Owens was a Black mother shot by a white woman through a locked door, mirroring similar national cases where Black individuals were shot under stand your ground laws while doing things like jogging or ringing unfamiliar doorbells.
    CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Watkins grabbed the microphone and hyped up the crowd before jogging onto the field — but not too quickly, due to her present injury.
    Haley Sawyer, Oc Register, 12 Oct. 2025

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“Stampeding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stampeding. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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