Half the Grave City crowd was stampedingfor the waggons, the rest were scared of getting left afoot.
These wolves had at least one pursuit which was merely an amusement; it was stampeding and killing sheep, though they rarely ate them.
It he'd had the pluck to stand by her, if he'd kept his head and laughed in their silly faces, instead of grizzling and growling and stampeding out of the parish as if poor Ally had disgraced him.
Because I saw you stampeding on in front of me, and I swore I'd overtake you before you got round that corner.
Had the murderer appeared, the men of Nome would certainly have stoppedstampeding long enough to see justice done, whereas the whereabouts of Fortune La Pearle was no longer an insistent problem.
They'll forget all about you in a month or less, what of stampeding to York and what not, and you can hit the trail under their noses and they won't bother.
The leaders of the stampeding herd had come dangerously close.
They did some stampeding the first part of the winter, but they've got over that now.
You know what it means if you're seen with a stampeding outfit.
It strikes me that stampeding is at best a sporting proposition.
With small stampeding packs on their backs, they closed the door behind them and started down the hill.
But pell-mell into camp they went, stampedingthe oxen and horses and frightening the men, and Billy began to feel that he must keep on his racer clear to the hills.
But suddenly they were aroused by shots, wild yells, and rapid hoof-falls, and down upon them dashed a band of mounted warriors, while others had killed the three guards and the cattle were stampeding in every direction.
That was the way they reasoned; and the rustlers had easy pickings, stampeding range cattle across the bedding-grounds of the trail herds, gathering unto themselves the strays, disposing of their loot right on the spot.
For every warrior in the band knew that the first bullet that found its mark in his body would send the horses stampeding down the slope; and to put his foes afoot was the initial purpose of the plains Indian when he went into battle.
When threatening clouds do gather and herded lightnings flash, And heavy rain drops splatter, and rolling thunders crash; What keeps the herd from running, stampeding far and wide?
It was well I thought of stampedingthe horses; that gave them a greater fright than my pistols.
The stampeding of the herd on such a night is almost a relief.
After making two or three vain attempts to come up with them, I realized that unless I would take the chances of stampeding our whole herd, I must leave them alone.
It had been arranged that Hendrick was to start an hour later and make a wide detour to the right, for the purpose of stampeding any birds he could manage to get to the westward of.
When threatening clouds do gather and herded lightnings flash, And heavy rain drops splatter, and rolling thunders crash; What keeps the herds from running, stampeding far and wide?
Twice one of my old horses turned a somersault while galloping after cattle; once in a prairie-dog town, and once while trying to prevent the herd from stampeding in a storm at night.
I didn't notice Miss McRory stampeding to any great extent," I said.
Maybe the stampeding will be going the other way when you and he meet Lady Knox!
I did not hear what Ranjoor Singh said to the Turkish captain because he left me to prevent the men from stampeding toward the smell of food--no easy task.
We raided the horse-lines of a Turkish regiment that had camped beside a stream, securing all the horses we needed and stampeding the remainder!
It had to break a couple of big banking companies and squeeze half a dozen big fellows, too, and it did it by stampedingthe cottontails.
And an hour after that, stampeding for the brush, they were throwing Little Copper overboard at forty-five and even forty.
A thousand head of stampedingcattle had gone over him, and the younger brother--the handsome Rafael--was now the head of the Arteaga family.
The stampeding herd had passed her, and she was still alive.
While sometimes it was used to kill game, or perhaps against dangerous animals, it often came in play to frighten an angry cow, or to turn a bunch of stampeding cattle.
Hugh had smiled at Jack's story of his attempts to dodge the stampeding cattle, and had told him that he was mighty lucky to have got off as he did.
Of course we had never thought of cattle stampeding in the corral, and it happened that there were no horses up; most of 'em were in a little pasture close to the house.
The dust rose in a choking cloud that fairly obscured the landscape, and the drumming of the hooves was like the stampeding of cattle.
And yet, conversely, on a number of occasions we have received our first intimation of the presence of lions by the wild stampeding of the game away from a certain spot.
The stampeding impulse had been checked, but the senseless brutes were not yet subdued to their usual state.
They hurried on in the trail of the roar from the stampeding herd, but suddenly Ellhorn's horse struck his fore feet on the slope of a wet and slippery mound beside a prairie dog's hole.
Carcasses were mowed down like felled trees; but still we plunged on and on, pursuing the racing herd; while the ground shook in an earthquake under stampeding hoofs.
A stampeding herd isn't anything to monkey with, I expect.
For the hidden enemy lay in the long grass between the herd and the trees, and inevitably, therefore, the stampeding animals would drive them out.
He had not figured out how he would set about stampeding the reindeer.
For a moment Jerry was rigid with terror, then she gripped herstampeding senses.
Jerry snatched at herstampeding composure and dragged it back.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stampeding" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
