Example sentences for: trounced

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

  • In the East, 12 th -seeded Southwest Missouri State held fifth-seeded Wisconsin to 32 points--the lowest NCAA tournament score since the inception of the shot clock--and then trounced fourth-seeded Tennessee.

  • The contributors all recognize that he would be trounced by Bush and Dole if the primaries were held today.

  • Her spokesman told reporters that "on a dollar-per-vote basis, Elizabeth Dole trounced George Bush and Steve Forbes."

  • But even those who insist that the legal system is out of control are afraid to challenge it: Every time they have done so, Clinton and the Democrats have trounced them, depicting them (with some justice) as shills for big corporations that don't want to be accountable to employees and customers.

  • Conservatives trounced the Left in Italy as well, where the party of TV magnate Silvio Berlusconi, a former prime minister, came in first.


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