Sentence examples for tramp down from inspiring English sources

In winter, they would tramp down snow into the permafrost, enhancing it.

Next day we tramp down into the valley, pass the farmhouse and its rather vicious-looking sheep dogs, then climb to a high pass, Col de la Cine.

If an unwary reader plunges into the undergrowth of names and citations expecting to tramp down an expository trail, he risks collapse from a sort of private Stendhal syndrome — or perhaps a slow death from exhaustion in the intricate defiles of Calasso's metaphysical excursions.

We tramp down the jetty to Adam's shiny motorboat, which he guns into top speed.

Even behaviors can be considered vestigial: witness the instinct in dogs to turn in a circle multiple times before lying down, presumably, though not assuredly, to tramp down a bed of grass (Irvine [2004]).

Roll or lightly tramp down the whole area to firm the seed in the soil.

Finally, we plunged the van into an out-of-the-way opening, tramped down some weeds beside it, and pitched our tents.

Tramping down a dark path, speaking in low voices, stopping at the sound of a bird: "Hear that?" Ms. Winn interrupted herself in the middle of a sentence.

Unable to fit much on her bicycle, she tramps down the rest so that the German army cannot eat her crops.

I tramped down long paths between high-walled private gardens, then back up into the old canut neighborhoods, past Vespa garages and through courtyards with fantastical staircases, and eventually I stationed myself on a bench to read a novel and nibble my Les Halles snack.

Tramping down into Main Street, I was pleased to see several thriving bookshops.