How to Use trounce in a Sentence

trounce

verb
  • Right now, he is being trounced in the polls.
    — Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 11 Aug. 2025
  • A lot of tech companies that were big in the ’80s were trounced.
    — Talmon Joseph Smith, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Mamdani trounced him three-to-one with everyone younger.
    — Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Are there other dramas that trounce the series in writing and in plot?
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
  • The Blazers have gone 0-3 while getting trounced in three home loss.
    — Mike Richman, OregonLive.com, 8 Dec. 2017
  • Even the white teams who get trounced by the Trotters get paid more than the Trotters do.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 Apr. 2023
  • No point over-analysing anything from this game as a whole, expected a loss and we are getting trounced again.
    — Simon Johnson, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Yes, the Eagles got trounced by Wake Forest last week at home.
    — Teddy Greenstein, chicagotribune.com, 16 Sep. 2017
  • So what is the path forward if trouncing the supply lines won’t produce results?
    — Sterling Elliott, Chicago Tribune, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Last week the Panthers trounced a one-loss Grapevine team 51-28.
    — Eric Zarate, star-telegram, 30 Oct. 2017
  • None of us know yet that the Sparks are about to get trounced by the Aces, losing by 27 points.
    — Jade Chang, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2026
  • Utah came back down to earth, getting trounced by Columbus in the battle of the two worst premier teams.
    — Todd Boss, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
  • The Bulls trounced the injury-laden Mavericks.
    — Joel Lorenzi, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Schiff ended up winning the primary and trounced Garvey in the runoff.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026
  • Gold’s bull run this year has trounced even the artificial intelligence trade that drove stocks to all-time highs.
    — Fred Imbert, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Shares of the health-care middleman have trounced the S & P 500 over the past five years.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 14 Mar. 2025
  • On Friday, Heights trounced North Side 70-0.
    — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Sep. 2025
  • To run an 81-year-old with a 38% approval rating who just got trounced in the first debate would be a risk.
    — Ezra Klein, The Mercury News, 3 July 2024
  • Kane and Klingberg returned for Game 2, but the Oilers were trounced.
    — Daniel Nugent-Bowman, New York Times, 19 May 2025
  • Riggs won, but was later trounced in a rematch with Billie Jean King.
    — Regina Elling, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Mamdani trounced Cuomo in the primary by about 13 points.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The Trojans have been trounced on the ground over their last three games, with 748 rushing yards allowed in that span.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Rachel handily trounced Horan with a quiz all about Niall Horan.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 27 Mar. 2026
  • That propelled Cox to the general election, where he was trounced by Newsom.
    — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Republicans hailed the rejection of the gas tax increase after it was trounced by voters.
    — ABC News, 22 May 2026
  • The Three Lions won their first two games, trouncing Panama 6-1 in the process.
    — Sean Gregory, Time, 29 June 2018
  • Technology stocks got trounced in the last week as investors sold their winners and bought previous laggards.
    — Moneyshow, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Paxton trounced him in a runoff race days after Trump endorsed the attorney general.
    — ABC News, 10 June 2026
  • The Cardinal trounced Rice two weeks ago 62-7 in a game played in Australia.
    — Zach Helfand, latimes.com, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Dell trounced earnings estimates in Thursday evening’s release.
    — Jason Gewirtz, CNBC, 28 May 2026

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