trodden

Example Sentences

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The path to investment success is easy to find because it’s well trodden and simple.

From Barron's • Dec. 24, 2025

"It's about meeting people that have done similar things, trodden similar paths, and being able to discuss that, and laugh and joke about things that have been happening," Dr Bennett says.

From BBC • Sep. 6, 2025

Self-funded for much of her teenage years, Kartal's route to professional tennis was not the most well trodden, while she also did not pick up a racquet for two years because of injury.

From BBC • Jul. 4, 2025

This pathway is now so well trodden as to have become a trope: the male feminist who deeply, appallingly wasn’t.

From Slate • Jan. 17, 2025

He passed like a shadow under the darkness of the tree and crouched, looking down at the trodden ground at his feet.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding