Example sentences for: trampling

How can you use “trampling” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Pura Kebo Edan has a statue of the giant Bima, standing 3 m (10 ft) tall, with multiple penises, trampling on a copulating couple.

  • Converts were forced to renounce their faith by trampling crucifixes and effigies of Jesus and Mary.

  • The fierce, heavenly guard trampling a devil underfoot is thought to bring good luck to those who put their arms around his ankle, but an iron fence keeps most onlookers at bay.

  • When Member of the Knesset Shmuel Halpert (United Torah Judaism) described the invitation to Arafat as "a desecration of the memory of the murdered in the Holocaust, the trampling of Jewish honor and the abuse of the remaining survivors," Saleh Saleem (Hadash) yelled back, "If you had been alive during the Holocaust, you would have been on the side of the Nazis."

  • The contrast is strong enough to sustain the allusion to Julia Ward Howe's Battle Hymn (bypassing Steinbeck, of course) when Quinn speaks of the narrative trampling over the now familiar gripes of Roth.


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