How to Use steamroller in a Sentence

steamroller

1 of 2 noun
  • America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers … but baseball has marked the time.
    — Ben Crandell, Sun Sentinel, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Denève paced the steamroller of sound at the end beautifully.
    — Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • So why do some stacks reach skyscraper-like loft, while others look like they’ve been flattened by a steamroller?
    — Maggie Meyer Glisan, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 May 2026
  • Sometimes a steamroller of a performance gets nipped at the last second.
    — Joe Reid, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Some believers have been hung on crosses and held over fires; others have been crushed by steamrollers.
    — George J. Marlin, National Review, 21 Oct. 2017
  • Stretching its legs through sweeping back road curves, the car’s 14-inch-wide rear tires push like a steamroller.
    — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 24 July 2021
  • Wilson’s choirboy tenor given new grit and the rhythm section bearing down like a steamroller.
    — Morgan Enos, Billboard, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Few imagined that Ukrainian forces could hold out for very long against the Russian steamroller.
    — Lawrence Freedman, Foreign Affairs, 14 June 2022
  • Raphael was a diplomat by nature while Michelangelo was a steamroller.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 2 Sep. 2020
  • Behind us like a steamroller of corruption that taunts us in the rear view and threatens to flatten us in our future.
    — John Archibald | [email protected], al, 20 Oct. 2019
  • For better or worse, in the name of progress, the SpaceX steamroller has rolled onward, paving all before it.
    — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The offense is a steamroller once more, the defense is thriving with backups and practice call-ups, and the special teams are still elite.
    — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 27 Dec. 2020
  • Flatulence – emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller.
    — Rubén Rosario, Twin Cities, 17 Dec. 2019
  • By the second quarter, Maryland flipped the ignition on its steamroller.
    — Katherine Fominykh, baltimoresun.com, 22 Mar. 2021
  • But faced with a higher degree of difficulty, the Sox have gone from steamroller to steamrollee.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Who needs this steamroller of a timeline full of pluckable facts and anecdotes about what women have endured in America?
    — Connie Schultz, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2022
  • All the while, the Soviet steamroller was advancing inexorably from the east.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 29 Dec. 2019
  • Dombrowski put together the 2018 Red Sox, a steamroller of a team.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Oct. 2022
  • The Macron steamroller effect could be blunted with the entrance into parliament of some prickly opponents.
    — Sylvie Corbet, The Denver Post, 18 June 2017
  • This is a personal dilemma for me, never having lost an ounce of my lifelong political combat against the reactionary steamroller.
    — David Zane Mairowitz, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2025
  • In 2018, the Red Sox were a steamroller, leads transforming with certainty into wins.
    — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2019
  • Colors of the Alphabet offers sensory swings, a steamroller slide, and a space themed sensory room, for example.
    — Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Continuing the steamroller schedule employed by the House, the Senate is planning no hearings and no review by experts.
    — Dermot Cole, Alaska Dispatch News, 22 June 2017
  • This undoubtedly cleared the way for a film like Nomadland to succeed; with no Goliaths on the field, this tiny, artsy indie could become a steamroller.
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 3 May 2021
  • The defense was flattened by the Rams’ steamroller-like offense and the result was a 28-12 loss to the Rams Sunday night.
    — oregonlive, 9 Dec. 2019
  • Hunt is still questionable Panthers offensive guard Robert Hunt, a steamroller when at his best, has been trying to make a comeback in time for the playoffs.
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Then an Obama steamroller in 2012, followed by a Republican steamroller this year.
    — Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2014
  • O’Neill directs the steamroller of tragedy right at the characters and then — atypically, delightfully — diverts it.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 14 Dec. 2025
  • With the global markets on edge after Chair Powell’s communication failed so miserably, few traders have been willing to step in front of this steamroller.
    — Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2019
  • The Framers did not leave the House a secret constitutional steamroller that everyone somehow overlooked for 230 years.
    — Rob Byers, The Courier-Journal, 4 Feb. 2020

steamroller

2 of 2 verb
  • Others feel the tech titan is trying to steamroller residents' wishes.
    — Andrew Selsky, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2020
  • MacMichael steamrollered his opponents with a clear, concise argument.
    — Jon Wilner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Lawmakers steamrollered through amendments by opponents of the bill to avoid sending it back for further review in the House.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 4 Mar. 2018
  • Diane’s lawyer urged the judge to honor Diane’s preferences, rather than allow them to be steamrollered by daughters who claimed to know better for her.
    — Katie Engelhart, New York Times, 9 May 2023
  • Her albums were steamrollered outside of her label’s offices in Rockefeller Center.
    — Allyson McCabe, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
  • As the offense discovered the run game, turning Devonta Freeman into a star, the defense was steamrollered by opposing backs.
    — Ryan Kartje, Orange County Register, 13 Jan. 2017
  • Yet enterprising brewers kept tinkering with IPAs, seeking ways to steamroller all resistance.
    — Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2022
  • For most of Tuesday's clash, the Belgian's fears were vindicated, as the Reds steamrollered his side, with Salah scoring two sublime goals and creating two others.
    — SI.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • As a result, the public is often directed to attractive, shortcut weight-loss options created for the purposes of making money, while scientists and doctors document facts that are steamrollered into the shadows.
    — David Prologo, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2018
  • Monday’s first skater, Mikhail Kolyada of Russia, fell on his opening four-revolution jump, which effectively steamrollered his Elvis impersonation.
    — JerÉ Longman, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2018
  • In positioning country music as, essentially, the music of the white rural working class, Nashville streamlined — make that steamrollered — the genre’s roots, and the ways it has always been engaged in wide-ranging cultural dialogue.
    — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2019

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