trample - use in sentences

Object

  • vegetation: Secondly, if people do keep to it they will trample the vegetation and start the process of path formation.
  • crop: Please take care to avoid trampling the hay crop, or disturbing grazing livestock.
  • foot: From the room above came a shout, a cry for help, and then the sound of trampling feet and of falling chairs.
  • damage: There is already evidence of diffuse trampling damage over considerable areas of the plateau and the path network has extended in recent years.

Modifying Another Word

  • n't: Unlike policemen, archeologists do n't trample all over the data, either.

Noun used with modifier

  • thou: Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.

Followed by a transitive particle

  • over: His ambition has led to him to trample over the careers of several other officers to achieve his aims.

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • upon: People were forced to run for their lives in order to escape being trampled upon by the police horses or beaten by staves.
  • on: I will work with them to make sure their rights are not trampled on.
  • over: You can preserve things there without them being trampled over by BASIC.
  • down: This was done to save the first round being trampled down.

Preposition: by

  • horse: Officers believe Terry Coles, 41, from Swansea, hit his head and was then trampled by a police horse.

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