stomps

present tense third-person singular of stomp

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of stomps The guy just f****** stomps right on my face. Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stomps
Verb
  • Because global air travel shuffles millions of people around the world daily, an outbreak of a very contagious disease anywhere can become a threat everywhere.
    Amy E. Stambach, The Conversation, 12 Aug. 2025
  • With Noni Madueke doubled up on out wide, Zubimendi shuffles backwards to receive the pass, and then fires a pass into Martin Odegaard, breaking the first two lines of the opposition’s 4-4-2 defensive block.
    Thom Harris, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The dejected actor stumbles over to a marketplace to buy a drink, shoplift a lighter, and strike out with a lottery ticket.
    Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Every founder stumbles—some in a very public fashion.
    Samantha Reynolds, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Even the paper’s biggest triumph—which, without giving too much away, brings it into direct conflict with its toilet-paper stablemate—involves a farcically immoral compromise that tramples the church-state divide between news and product sales (and, worse, isn’t all that funny).
    Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2025
  • In a now-viral video from August 10, an elephant chases and nearly tramples a tourist on the highways of Bandipur National Park, known for its nature walks, birdwatching and wildlife safaris, in the southern Indian state of Karnataka.
    Kamala Thiagarajan, NPR, 31 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Griffin Crosa #39 of the North Dakota State Bison kicks a field goal during the first half against the Colorado Buffaloes at Folsom Field on August 29, 2024 in Boulder, Colorado.
    Ben Verbrugge, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Lightning has streaked across Arizona skies over the past few weeks as the state's monsoon season kicks into full force.
    Laura Gersony, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • At a single, two-minute dinner, Hermann Kafka smashes a cockroach while denigrating his son’s engagement to Felice Bauer before reiterating his distaste for Franz’s writing.
    Sam Bodrojan, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Excitement around the closing stretch is spilling onto the charts in the United Kingdom, as a wave of Coldplay smashes return and rise this frame.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025

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“Stomps.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stomps. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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