stomps

present tense third-person singular of stomp

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of stomps Bonnie stomps off in anger, but the Guinness boys are confident that things will work out. Keith Phipps, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025 The guy just f****** stomps right on my face. Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stomps
Verb
  • Gakpo is deeper, and Wirtz pushes forward as the central member of Liverpool’s forward line, while Ekitike shuffles across as the left of the trio.
    Mark Carey, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
  • 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
Verb
  • In the middle of 25th St, a man opens a red stanchion and ushers us toward a guard who stamps invisible ink on our wrists.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 24 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But there have been some career stumbles recently, a superhero disappointment in particular, that must have complicated Johnson’s conception of his remarkable career.
    Richard Lawson, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Wallen then stumbles to his feet in the middle of the road, as rain pours down, with close-up images showing Wallen in tattered clothes and covered in scrapes and cuts.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 1 Oct. 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
  • Your character kicks a lot more ass in this movie and fights back against the Strangers.
    William Earl, Variety, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Engineer kicks humanoid robot’s torso The engineer is also seen kicking the humanoid robot’s torso violently.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The ball smashes into the floodlights, and Hobbs sets off on his victory trot, in slow motion, with sparks cascading behind him like fireworks.
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The trend isn’t one-sided either, as clips have surfaced of brides being the ones to start the frosting fight, like in this TikTok video where a bride smashes a piece of cake on her groom’s face.
    Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025

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“Stomps.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stomps. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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