Examples of stampede in a Sentence
Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2024
At least 18 others were hurt in the stampede that followed.
—Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 25 Mar. 2024
Palestinian officials, doctors and eyewitnesses blamed the deaths on Israeli gunfire, while Israeli officials blamed a stampede.
—Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2024
The city enacted several new laws and regulations that essentially gut the annual event after last year's chaos, when two people were fatally shot, several were injured in stampedes, and police made 488 arrests (including 230 felony arrests) and seized 105 firearms.
—Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 4 Mar. 2024
The spokesperson blamed most of the deaths on a stampede.
—NBC News, 3 Mar. 2024
The military has said that most of the people died in a stampede and that some were run over by the trucks in Gaza City.
—Michael Levenson, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2024
Israel reports a lower death toll and alleges many of those killed were run over by trucks or died in the stampede.
—Suzanne Nuyen, NPR, 1 Mar. 2024
The Heat then unleashed a 13-0 stampede to start the second quarter.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 30 Mar. 2024
Yasmeen Abutaleb, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
Back-breaker – except Davis, who stampeded around the paint like a baby elephant during a 16-rebound night, snared a board and kicked to Forbes for a 3-pointer to tie.
—Luca Evans, Orange County Register, 9 Mar. 2024
There was a shooting, stampedes through sensitive dune areas, and a massive traffic jam that shut down the island’s two-lane causeway, preventing access for emergency vehicles.
—Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Mar. 2024
Wild melees, unruly crowds, brazen shootings that included two homicides, stampedes and lawless behavior – some of which were captured in viral videos on social media – ran rampant through the streets of South Beach.
—Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 29 Feb. 2024
Israeli officials disputed the number of dead but did not say how many had died and said many had been killed by stampeding crowds or run over by aid trucks.
—Raf Sanchez, NBC News, 29 Feb. 2024
Videos have shown stampedes breaking out, and hundreds of people crushed together scrabbling for food.
—Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 31 Jan. 2024
Combine this with a radical cost advantage and most Davinci users are likely to stampede to ChatGPT in the coming weeks.
—Rob Reid, Ars Technica, 9 Mar. 2023
The vessels incited stampedes down store aisles and sold out in minutes.
—Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2024
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Word History
Noun
American Spanish estampida, from Spanish, crash, from estampar to stamp, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German stampfōn to stamp
Noun
1828, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Verb
1838, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1
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“Stampede.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stampede. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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stampede
1 of 2 noun
stampede
2 of 2 verbNoun
from a word in the Spanish of Mexico and the American Southwest, estampida "stampede," from Spanish estampida "a crash, loud noise," from estamper "to pound, stamp"
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