stampede - use in sentences

Object

  • herd: W Leon Smith When principles stampede the herd British Journalism Review Vol.
  • buffalo: For over two thousand years, Indians stampeded buffalo over the mile-long cliff.
  • cattle: The cattle stampeded and the cowboys rode in an opposite direction.

Converse of object

  • cause: Dodging a charging cheetah or causing an elephant stampede is just a typical afternoon for tiny Tarzan!
  • join: This will be telling you to join the stampede of people rushing to the bar to order their last drink of the evening!
  • start: He gave them a wide berth, but the 2 guys a little distance in front ran very close and nearly started a stampede.
  • ensue: In the ensuing folk rock stampede, Vanguard never did reap the huge folk rock sales of Columbia or even its indie rival Elektra.
  • spark: Last week, several hundred Shia pilgrims in Baghdad were killed in a stampede sparked by rumors of a suicide bomber in their midst.
  • lead: Supermarkets corral Brazilian beef to lead stampede for bigger profits.

Adjective modifier

  • wild: When Team Rocket show up to cause trouble - the Exeggutor go on a wild stampede!

Noun used with modifier

  • cattle: In the dry, conditions resemble a cattle stampede, and riders struggle not to choke on the dust.
  • buffalo: We narrowly missed being caught in a buffalo stampede, tried herding giraffe and disturbed a leopard on its evening hunt.

Preposition: of

  • people: This will be telling you to join the stampede of people rushing to the bar to order their last drink of the evening!

Preposition: for

  • exit: Some move forward to intervene, others stampede for the exits.

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