How to Use stampede in a Sentence

stampede

1 of 2 noun
  • There was a stampede and a young woman fell in front of him.
    — Aishvarya Kavi, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Some fell and were trampled in the stampede.
    — Jesse Bedayn, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Thought some of the stampede drives were really good.
    — Khobi Price, Oc Register, 23 Nov. 2025
  • At least eight people died and many more were injured in a stampede among the crowd.
    — Babak Dehghanpisheh, NBC news, 3 July 2026
  • Dozens of people were injured in the stampede.
    — ABC News, 14 Apr. 2026
  • The humans had to be careful not to cause a stampede themselves.
    — The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Over 4 million people have made the switch, and the stampede hasn’t stopped.
    — William Arruda, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022
  • There are two main reasons for the mad stampede off the plane – and both are terrible.
    — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The cause of their deaths is still unknown, but officials have ruled out a stampede.
    — New York Times, 10 July 2022
  • In all, about two dozen people were hurt, mostly during the stampede when shots rang out.
    — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 5 July 2022
  • But, at least for now, her team has been insulated from the stampede and the uproar.
    — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Apr. 2022
  • Overview There's a loud stampede coming at us from the other side of that sandy dune.
    — Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 18 Apr. 2023
  • This then prompted a stampede of clients to yank their mostly uninsured deposits.
    — Brandy Hadley, The Conversation, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Who were the victims of the City College stampede?
    — Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 9 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • Vijay had been speaking on a makeshift stage on top of a bus when the stampede began, per the Times.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 28 Sep. 2025
  • What may be hitting financial stocks now are fears that this stampede will get faster and more furious.
    — Telis Demos, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2022
  • The blaze triggers a frenzied stampede of forest dwellers across the road as the fire encroaches.
    — Joshua Alston, Variety, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Right now the stampede is moving toward anything with AI in the pitch.
    — Theo Baker, The Atlantic, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The trick is to find a good property to buy before the stampede of other buyers comes out once again as rates drop.
    — Jeff Lazerson, Oc Register, 24 Oct. 2025
  • If there is a media stampede, Tracey tends to run the other direction.
    — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Neither rain nor shine stopped the crowds from coming; nor did the occasional stampede.
    — Stephanie Gorton, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 July 2023
  • If the blue states don’t start reducing their tax burdens, that outflow could turn into a stampede.
    — Stephen Moore, Boston Herald, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The Israeli military has said that most of the people died in a stampede and that some were run over by the trucks.
    — Anushka Patil, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
  • That said, what happened was a race-to-withdrawal, equivalent to a stampede, which would have brought any bank to its knees.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Mar. 2023
  • While dolphin stampedes are not unheard of, the sheer scale of this event was extraordinary.
    — Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Two dozen others were injured by gunfire and at least 18 others were hurt in the stampede that followed.
    — Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 5 Mar. 2024
  • The Heat then unleashed a 13-0 stampede to start the second quarter.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Told you there wouldn’t be a stampede to pick Boutte up despite a dominant showing in Week 1.
    — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The event officially ended after the stampede broke out.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 28 Sep. 2025

stampede

2 of 2 verb
  • The gunshot stampeded the cattle.
  • People stampeded to the exits.
  • There’s a rather surprising and very lethal threat stampeding from the south.
    — WIRED, 15 June 2023
  • Avalanches stampede down granite walls, taking trees and rocks with them that choke roads.
    — Brian Melley, The Seattle Times, 15 June 2017
  • Even the adults are too absorbed by their screens to notice a herd of dolls stampeding through a house.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026
  • But Eleanor, for goodness sake, don’t let anyone stampede you.
    — Richard Sandomir, SI.com, 21 June 2017
  • Buffalo is stampeding right now and won’t be stopped.
    — Bill Reinhard, New York Daily News, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The vessels incited stampedes down store aisles and sold out in minutes.
    — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The next hurdle was to protect the crops from stampeding elephants.
    — Kate Cunningham, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Jan. 2017
  • One method was to place swaths of carpet in train stations where thousands of people would stampede over them each day.
    — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Don’t worry, that’s not the sound of stampeding elephants — the Cubs just won.
    — Ben Meyerson, RedEye Chicago, 27 Apr. 2018
  • The subplots keep stampeding past before a viewer has a chance to corral them.
    — Hank Stuever, chicagotribune.com, 14 June 2018
  • In Colorado, wild horses stampede on land so dry that dust billows up at the slightest touch.
    — Susan Goldberg, National Geographic, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Before stampeding for the off switch, parents and others should ask two questions.
    — The Economist, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Such words from a financial authority are prone to be heard as a signal to stampede.
    — The Economist, 3 Oct. 2019
  • The only sure benefit here is for trial attorneys, who will stampede over the chance to take the state to court.
    — Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Watch out for metro Detroiters stampeding to the grocery store.
    — Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The local legend is the light from the tin cans blinded horses on the street who would stampede into neighbors’ yards.
    — Carlos R. Muñoz, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Feb. 2022
  • The crowd stampedes were believed to have started when people began running and knocked over a vendor’s tent.
    — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2023
  • The dressing room doors opened and here came the media horde, stampeding across the carpet toward the faraway stall.
    — Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 6 May 2018
  • Sometimes the levels change—a herd of enemies will come stampeding at you or all the pipes will start wriggling around like worms.
    — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The animals are easily spooked and can stampede in an attempt to reach the safety of the water.
    — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2022
  • This is where tribes would stampede bison off cliffs, a unique hunting style that ended only 200 years ago.
    — Ali Wunderman, Star Tribune, 21 May 2021
  • The once-stampeding Dodgers have been caged by the Colorado Rockies.
    — Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The once-stampeding Dodgers have been caged by the Colorado Rockies.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2026
  • His friends instantly stampeded for the exits.
    — Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2026
  • If startled by a polar bear, airplane or hunter, the herd stampedes into the safety of the ocean and young animals are crushed.
    — Dan Joling, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Botha, leading a hunting group, fired at a group of elephants stampeding toward him when an elephant lifted him off the ground with its trunk.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 14 Aug. 2017
  • There are rampaging Ohms, mountainous bugs that stampede across the desert like the sandworms in Dune.
    — Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 19 Nov. 2020
  • As a series of angry storms has stampeded through South Texas over the last week, there's been talk of tornados.
    — Marc Duvoisin, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Apr. 2023

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