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steamroller

steemroh ler

  • n  a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way
  • n  vehicle equipped with heavy wide smooth rollers for compacting roads and pavements
  • v  bring to a specified state by overwhelming force or pressure
    The Senator steamrollered the bill to defeat
  • v  proceed with great force
    The new teacher tends to steamroller
  • v  crush with a steamroller as if to level
    steamroller the road
  • v  overwhelm by using great force
    steamroller the opposition
  • v  make level or flat with a steamroller

  • That game is a steamroller with a couple of forward gears.
  • Still, you can probably guess which of the two remote-control names is a marketing steamroller (Wiimote) and which is trying to avoid getting flattened into so many transistor .
  • Then comes marriage and the steamroller of daily existencehis job for a big company, her wife-and-motherhood.
News & Articles

  • Bobcats won't be denied: Northeastern collects PIAA gold
    Just a point away from the pinnacle, Matt Wilson tried to calm his Northeastern players. The Bobcats coach knew they were tense after Ambridge called a timeout. Their nerves showed only a handful of times in a steamroller of a season. Saturday in the PIAA Class AA boys' volleyball title match, their seven-point lead disappeared. They had room for error, but not much.
    June 13, 2013 - York Daily Record
Quotes

  • Tom Morello in Boston Music Spotlight
    It's revolutionary party jams,explained Morello in a press release. "It's got huge steamroller riffs combined with depth, charge, funk, while Boots unloads clip after clip of incendiary rhymes rich with satire and venom."
  • Jason Varitek in AtlantaBraves.com
    He wasn't as bad as his line last time,said Varitek, his catcher. "He ran into a steamroller and didn't get away in his last start. He's better his last four, five starts than he was his first eight, nine, when he didn't have a loss."
  • Joseph Bruno in Buffalo News
    I took that steamroller down this little incline and turned it around, and I couldn't get it back up this little hill,Bruno said. "It started to spin, and guess what? When the going gets a little bit tough, a steamroller spins. It doesn't...

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