stampede
IPA: stæmpˈid
noun
- A wild, headlong scamper, or running away, of a number of animals; usually caused by fright; hence, any sudden flight or dispersion, as of a crowd or an army in consequence of a panic.
- (by extension) A situation in which many people in a crowd are trying to go in the same direction at the same time.
- (figurative) Any sudden unconcerted moving or acting together of a number of persons, as from some common impulse.
verb
- (intransitive) To run away in a panic; said of cattle, horses, etc., also of armies.
- (transitive) To disperse by causing sudden fright, as a herd or drove of animals.
- To move rapidly in a mass. (of people)
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Examples of "stampede" in Sentences
- There is no need for a stampede here.
- It was a sign of the stampede that was to come.
- In Calgary the event was held in the Stampede Corral.
- The Cowboys played at the Stampede Corral in Calgary.
- The ethanol stampede is contributing to a sugar shortage.
- Most of the deaths were caused by the crush of the stampede.
- Patsy Rodgers was the first ever Stampede Queen of the Calgary Stampede.
- The horses of both were stampeded and the units were afoot when overrun.
- In the 1960s the stampede was the most popular rodeo in northern Alberta.
- And the cure for the panic stampede is to be found in historical perspective.
- Simons catches up to the parties and shoots a cowhand, setting off a stampede.
- As the cattle continued their short-term stampede, campus cops intervened and inexplicably held Kotran against his will.
- Northland Scripture, the stampede is to the swift, the blazing of stakes to the strong, and the Crown in royalties, gathers to itself the fulness thereof.
- Northland Scripture, the stampede is to the swift, the blazing of stakes to the strong, and the Crown, in royalties, gathers to itself the fulness thereof.
- That is one of the reasons that the revolutionary movement occurred -- the reason of a stampede from the front -- and it is quite possible that the Germans have been shrewd enough to realize that it was quite well to give time for that to happen, for some disintegrating force to take place.
- People mourn victims in German stampede Chinese consulate-general confirms one female citizen killed in German stampede Death toll of German stampede rises to 19, over 300 injured The stampede took place shortly after 5 pm Saturday as people were jostling with each other in an entrance tunnel to a former freight rail station in the western German city of Duisburg, where the event was being held.