In a sense this was natural; for it seemed to be part of a scheme for securing British influence in the Levant and riding roughshod over the susceptibilities of the French (the constructors of the canal) and the plans of Russia.
To ride roughshod over tribes who live in the desert and have no natural rallying-point may be very effective; but that policy is risky when applied to tribes who cling to their mountains.
These people had got power for the first time in their lives and they were riding roughshod over the community.
I clothed mine for nothing, and ever after they have tried to ride roughshod over me, and mutiny on every occasion!
To this girl he owed his life, and he had repaid the debt by trampling roughshod upon her heart.
The strike would perhaps have been successful had it not been that the entire powers of the National Government, and those of most of the States affected, were used roughshod to crush this mighty labor uprising.
He was a veritable dictator of the realms of finance; an assiduous, repellent little man, with his devil's eye, who rode roughshod over every obstacle in his path.
I'm not going to let you ride roughshod over me, I can tell you.
Yea, I will range the fields of war and tilt against the brave And o'er the champions will I rideroughshod and lay them low.
How long shall she ride roughshod o'er my weakness night and day?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "roughshod" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
