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Example sentences for "trampled"

Lexicographically close words:
tramped; tramper; trampers; tramping; trample; tramples; trampling; tramplings; tramps; tramroad
  1. The evil which trampled me down--I know it not.

  2. WHY urge the long, unequal fight, Since Truth has fallen in the street, Or lift anew the trampled light, Quenched by the heedless million's feet?

  3. The foul crew had gone as swiftly and suddenly as it had come, and save for four ragged figures littered amongst the trampled bushes, no sign remaining of their passing.

  4. Horse or Devil, holy father, I heard him shout with joy as he trampled upon Brother John, and had you seen him tossing the subprior as a dog shakes a rat you would perchance have felt even as I did.

  5. The lay brother he struck to the ground and trampled into the mire.

  6. There he lay, trampled over by either party, while that great fight for which his fiery soul had panted was swaying back and forward above his unconscious form.

  7. The grain is thrown down, and trampled by cattle, or by horses attached to a heavy wooden sledge made of two boards and curved up in front.

  8. The trampled dead and dying are but a tithe of the actual sufferers.

  9. The spring began to break in all its glory, and the grass grew green in Virginia, on fields that were trampled and bloody before that battle summer was over.

  10. He had them trampled under the feet of elephants, but the leprosy broke out on his body the very next day.

  11. Bhainsasur is represented by a stone in the fields, and when crops are beaten down at night by the wind it is supposed that Bhainsasur has passed over them and trampled them down.

  12. They tore down the wheat and trampled it on stones, and then they tore down what were left of grapes and crushed and bruised and trampled them.

  13. There is scarce an apple now on twenty trees, And my asparagus and strawberry beds Are trampled into clauber, and the boughs Of peach and plum-trees broken and torn down For some last fruit that hung there.

  14. All the fond household memories, though desecrated and trampled down, were not so soon to be forgotten.

  15. He had waited for her long, and growing at last impatient had stolen to the open door, and when the dying woman asked for him he had trampled down his pride and entered the humble room.

  16. If it had not been for what I saw between us--there, on the floor of crazed and trampled mud, I should have flung my arms around her.

  17. We struck it at a point where there was neither gate nor gap, but the dragoons bashed it down with their carbines and trampled it down with their boots, and so made a way.

  18. Nor fort, nor castle, could withstand him: and before the gates the English were trampled under foot.

  19. Noble troops, in the fatal hour, trampled on the dead like prancing steeds.

  20. We dreaded much, we smaller creatures, to see these approach, for they trampled down a generation of us under the tread of their ponderous feet.

  21. It is too plain that being trampled on and tossed about in this way can teach no one anything.

  22. One would think you had been wronged, insulted, trampled on, driven to despair.

  23. His starting steeds, to shun the glitt'ring sword, Paw down his trampled limbs, forgetful of their lord.

  24. The reader, who has perhaps never seen a shot fired in anger, may have chanced to witness a man struck down in the street by a falling beam or trampled by a runaway horse.

  25. In a second they were trampled under foot, but suddenly, after twenty or more had been thus slaughtered, the band began to waver.

  26. Before it could gather itself for a second attack, it lay, a trampled mass, under Ranger's hoofs.

  27. First, there was a trampled place in the snow where the bull had taken a stand and the big cats went creeping about him, waiting for a chance to spring all together.

  28. In a terrible railroad wreck in which a multitude of people had perished, he merely lost a cap which had been trampled into the mire.

  29. And when I started to leave, the trampled cactus pierced me with its thorn.

  30. Some found a little pool of blood that the thirsting ground had not yet drained and that had not yet been trampled under foot, and they dipped into it their handkerchiefs and their raiment.

  31. He fell prone, his haggard face buried in the grey dust which had been ground fine by the wheels of traffic, trampled by the feet of men and beasts.

  32. So many people had wallowed all over the place before I got there that there was nothing to be had from the sand, except two trampled remains of those remarkable tracks.

  33. The thick glass was shattered, and on the blood-stained sands a little spot of heaven's blue fluttered in the breeze, instantly to be trampled under foot.

  34. They forgot the tyranny of Laud when the Church was trampled under foot by men who trampled under foot the constitution.

  35. In a few days Fairfax had trampled down the Kentish insurgents, and had prisoned those of the eastern counties within the walls of Colchester, while Cromwell drove the Welsh insurgents within those of Pembroke.

  36. And this man was a tyrant who trampled men underfoot, a hired executioner, a murderer who betrayed the innocent, took bribes, and practised simony and all kinds of wickedness.

  37. One shock reached Christiania and caused a terrible panic in the churches; people trampled one another to death or lost their reason.

  38. Sitting opposite me in the parlor-car, ignoring the papers and fashion magazines I spread beneath her eyes, she lifted on me the piteous face of an angel whom I had beaten and trampled and enslaved.

  39. They found your horse dead, and the road through the woods all trampled down, and they spurred after the tracks down to the water's edge.

  40. They trampled rough-shod over the moaning heaps of wounded and dying, and crowded the crews at the guns, who were powerless before their numbers.

  41. They charged at this cry like a herd of mad buffalo, the weaker ones trampled under foot or thrust against the wall.

  42. The citizens it once trampled on as slaves it will continue to trample on as outcasts, and it will set up your permission emblazoned in the Constitution itself.

  43. But the great truth, though trampled down, survived in the hearts of the French people, to rise again and resume its heritage.


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    Other words:
    downtrodden; henpecked; oppressed; servile; slavish; submissive