steamroll

How To Use steamroll In A Sentence

• Vick proceeded to steamroller the board in the manner to which we have by now become accustomed.
• Pro-hunters fear that if peers refuse to back the Commons this time the Government will use the Parliament Acts to steamroller a ban into law.
• Every person who stands up in protest against the plans makes it that little bit more awkward for the powers-that-be to steamroller ahead.
• The story is a steamroller, flattening everything in order to make its ‘big ironic point’.
• What is happening to the campaigning steamroller that was going to propel the new prophets of technocratic and meritocracy craving Labor into power?
• Back then England were steamrollering sides and we were told that they were unbeatable, especially as we were playing them at Twickenham.
• The motion was steamrollered through in the lower chamber.
• A topographical map of Michigan makes the state look as if someone steamrolled it with heavy equipment, then rumpled the northwest corner.
• If the policies of these two disparate figures often have a tweedledum-and-tweedledee-ish look to them, then what we face is not specific party politics or individual style, but a system with its own steamroller force, and its own set of narrow, repetitive “solutions” to our problems. Tom Engelhardt: Living in the 51st State (of Denial)
• The people of Pateley Bridge feel they are being steamrollered into accepting the three-storey building being placed on a corner site on the Southlands car park half way up the High Street.