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

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

Until then, however, humans are likely to continue their small steps into the cosmos, on a path long trodden by robotic explorers before them.

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2024

The cables came into being in the late 1800s, after celebrated geologist Josiah Whitney proclaimed the 8,800-foot summit of Half Dome “perfectly inaccessible” and declared it would “never be trodden by human foot.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2024

On her last visit, the year before Harry started at Hogwarts, Harry had accidentally trodden on the tail of her favorite dog.

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling