Sentence examples for had stepped on from inspiring English sources

I had stepped on one, too".

Most shocking was the death on November 22nd of five Palestinian schoolchildren, who had stepped on an Israeli mine beside one of the gaza strip's tiny Jewish settlements.

My first reaction to McDowell's letter was one of stupefaction, as if I had stepped on a stonefish.

"He was drinking and cut his foot?" social worker Bonita Stokes calmly asked one harried apartment manager whose tenant, age 69, had stepped on a broken wine bottle.

Most of the cars, one witness later recalled, looked "as if an elephant had stepped on a cigar box".

Someone had stepped on the glasses.

Someone had stepped on her foot at the starting line.

He winced, as if I had stepped on his toe.

We had stepped on Tellie's patch of mint.

Wallow had stepped on a sea urchin and broken his fall on more urchins.

He later said it felt as if he had stepped on a railroad spike.