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How to use the word stampede in a Sentence?

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Most people, they just didn't have the tickets. So they just stormed the train... I mean, it was almost like a stampede, people were trying to get inside no matter what.

Sergei Zalankov

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Halfway through October, the number of homes for sale has improved compared to the overheated first half of this year, leading to slower price growth, it seems that buyers and sellers are finally taking a step back from the pandemic-induced stampede of the past year to regain their footing and reassess their next steps.

George Ratiu

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Let's face it, this mission was fraught with peril, because there's no way to flee without causing a stampede, and there's no way to have a stampede that's orderly and meritorious.

Brad Sherman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Fears are circulating that some investment funds might be quickly closing out positions as a way of shoring up their cash, it is early days yet but we might see selling pressure ramp up for fear there could be a stampede for the exit.

David Madden

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear -­ kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor ­- with the cry of grave national emergency. Always, there has been some terrible evil at home, or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Douglas MacArthur

added by Normando
4 years ago

Searchers from Tri-Valley Fire Department and Alaska State Troopers responded on snow machines and located the group approximately 13 miles in from the Stampede Road trailhead.

Alaska State Troopers

Found on CNN
4 years ago

At this point I would say it is a steady trickle rather than stampede but is most definitely happening.

Kevin Yam

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Deutsche Bank's financial and operating woes as well as those of other equally challenged EU banks and concentration on cost savings instead of business building have and will continue to inure to the benefit of the large U.S. money center banks who stampede towards gains in corporate and retail market share as well as taking share in global fixed-income trading.

Doug Kass

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It has added to confusion in discussions about the expansion of our dinner theaters to new locations across the country and around the world, some of our guest comments and comments of developers, in markets around the country with whom we spoke, show a misconception of what our show is. They do not realize the Stampede is a very patriotic, spectacular, horse show with 32 beautiful horses as the stars.

World Choice spokesman Pete Owens

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I used to be able to feel the vibration of the stampede and that of the bells of the steers.

Sergio Colas

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Further slides would accelerate the stampede.

Tian Weidong

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We've seen another stampede driven by panic, there's no good news in sight?while investors are being affected by the global 'risk-off' mood.

Yang Hai

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The slump apparently triggered intensified selling, while the trigger of the circuit breaker seems to have heightened panic, as liquidity was suddenly gone and this is something no one has experienced before. It was a stampede.

Gu Yongtao

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This is quite unexpected, the slump apparently triggered intensified selling, while the trigger of the circuit breaker seems to have heightened panic, as liquidity was suddenly gone and this is something no one has experienced before. It was a stampede.

Gu Yongtao

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The slump apparently triggered intensified selling, while the triggering of the circuit breaker seems to have heightened panic, as liquidity was suddenly gone and this is something no one has experienced before, it was a stampede.

Gu Yongtao

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The ASC decision applies the reins to Suncor, who tried to stampede our shareholders, this decision exposes Suncor's opportunism and levels the playing field.

Donald Lowry

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I was out for a couple of hours just kind of taking photos, recording. And just two hours standing in the sun makes you so dizzy and so incredibly faint, but regardless, people were still continuing to ... their ritual, where the stampede happened.

Ethar El-Katatney

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's not surprising given the sudden change in valuations that we're going to have difficulty finding a consistent level in pricing, it's very easy to start a stampede in one direction or the other. All that I can predict is that volatility will stay elevated for at least a few more days.

Stephen Massocca

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There was chaos at the entrance. And suddenly there was this stampede.

Arun Kumar

Found on CNN
8 years ago

My husband, who had fallen and hurt himself in the stampede, couldn't move quickly enough. He told me to take the children and run, but I said, 'If we are going to die, we will die together,'.

Champa Devi

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Douglas MacArthur

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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