Sentence examples for trounced on from inspiring English sources

They were trounced on polling day a few weeks later.

"Any suggestions?" Get so trounced on Lambrini until you can't feel your legs, I'd have thought.

In calling it quits now, Santorum avoids the risk of repeating that experience of being trounced on his home turf.

Sir Alex Ferguson picked a shadow line-up but their substance was far too great for a Schalke team who were trounced on aggregate.

The decision to give up both posts is seen as a desperate attempt to overhaul the Free Democrats by the next federal election, due in 2013, and perhaps salvage the fortunes of Mrs. Merkel's center-right coalition, roundly trounced on March 27 in the state elections.

The Lib Dems have not resolved the right/left argument, but this week has shown members can unite around three themes: taxing the wealthy (the mansion tax has been championed ad nauseam); defending civil liberties (the leadership was trounced on secret courts, in the best debate of the conference); and green growth (which has become a key dividing line with the Tories).

LACING our sneakers, 30 of us got ready to mark the first anniversary of Bob Speisman's death in a way that would have made him laugh: by trouncing one another on the basketball court.

And no one did more to trounce on all that good work making seminal horror and sci-fi flicks, like the late '90s/early '00s John Carpenter, either.

The four artists who make up Gelitin — they met in summer camp in 1978 (or so the story goes) and have been exhibiting worldwide since 1993 — pride themselves on upending the public's expectations, trouncing on art's boundaries, and testing the patience of gallery dealers, employees, and critics.

"It's actually kind of complicated for the government to investigate in a way that doesn't trounce on attorney-client privilege, which might cause some of the evidence to be suppressed," Carney says.

When I swim back, there is a natural ladder of stacked stones leading up to my rock and I ascend, careful not to trounce on spiky sea urchins.