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Example sentences for: trounces

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

Now Gore trounces Bush in a debate, substantially widening his lead, and making it all but certain that Gore will win.
By any rational calculus, Inglis trounces Hollings in tonight's debate.
Reviewers note that the essays, like the book, are long (97 pages about a cruise-ship voyage, 54 on the Illinois State Fair) and playful ("He trounces words; he pivots on commas; he drops in and out of styles like a vaudevillian who lets the audience watch him change costumes right there on stage," says the Los Angeles Times ' Susan Salter Reynolds).