stomping

present participle of stomp

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of stomping Cena’s chrome-domed antihero, Freddie Stroma’s Vigilante and and Danielle Brooks’ Adebayo stomping through spots of light. Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 21 Aug. 2025 No velvet rope, no fourth wall—just boot-stomping, beer-sign neon and crowd-absorption tech. Bob Bonniol, Rolling Stone, 13 Aug. 2025 Rob placed first in every single stage, except for stomping a plank to send three items up into a basket, which Amber Brkich won with three straight shots. EW.com, 13 Aug. 2025 Old guys stomping grapes barefoot. John Noakes, Hartford Courant, 12 Aug. 2025 The entire hour is a fascinating, glorious middle finger to various forms of bodily shame, and with Tolev stomping around the stage in huge black combat boots and a pleather jumpsuit, female too-muchness gets a new standard-bearer. Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2025 In a similar vein, Malloy’s musical score is almost anonymously eclectic — wistful ballads, stomping pop, a smattering of EDM — but threaded through with enough strains of Russian folk and klezmer to suggest a sense of place. Houman Barekat, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2024 On June 1, she was charged with beating and stomping a woman inside Webb’s Bronx apartment building that day. John Annese, New York Daily News, 21 Dec. 2024 During an interview with detectives, Lambeth admitted to punching, stomping and strangling Howells, court documents stated. Lauren De Young, The Arizona Republic, 6 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stomping
Verb
  • In it, a monster with bolts in his head and a shuffling gate was created by a man.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The closures have resulted in staff shuffling throughout the library system and rescheduled activities such as author talks and photography exhibits.
    Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The first step of doing that would be creating a unique conversation ID at the first touch and stamping it on every chat, call, portal click and email.
    Tayfun Bilsel, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • While 10 teams across South America, Asia, Oceania have already joined hosts Canada, Mexico and the United States in stamping their ticket to next June’s tournament, everything is still to play for in European qualifying.
    Jack Bantock, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The episode ends with a surreal, graphic deepfake scene of a totally nude Donald Trump stumbling around a desert.
    Nick Marx, The Conversation, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Inside the agency, Dudek, ill-prepared for leadership or for DOGE’s murky agenda, was stumbling through the chaos in part by creating some of his own.
    Eli Hager, ProPublica, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Neither will forget what Harbaugh did late in the blowout, when going for two points after a touchdown instead of kicking a PAT to signal everything was A-OK between the two.
    Jay Paris, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The White House request for kicking this month’s government shutdown deadline into next year is drawing a lukewarm reception from some GOP spending cardinals.
    Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Ukraine accuses Russia of trampling over its sovereignty with an imperial war of conquest.
    Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
  • However, there’s nothing funny about trampling — in the lust for partisan political power — the quaintly democratic notion that congressional districts should fairly represent the characteristics and values of their constituents.
    Dan Walters, Oc Register, 6 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • From the Luddites smashing looms in 19th-century England to autoworkers walking out over the introduction of robots to the factory floor in the 1980s, resistance has flared before either being crushed or subsiding, giving way to the new economies and social orders the technologies ushered in.
    Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The 40th anniversary of John Farnham’s record-smashing 1986 album Whispering Jack will be celebrated with a new musical.
    Lars Brandle, Billboard, 16 Sep. 2025

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“Stomping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stomping. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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