trudge
Frequently Asked Questions
- The kids just trudged upstairs to bed.
- We were trudging through the muddy field, hoping to find our way back to the trail.
- The walk up the hill to the old church is a real trudge.
Example Sentences
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I certainly didn’t want to trudge back out to LaGuardia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
Analysts have pointed to a few reasons they believe stocks are set to trudge higher into New Year’s Day.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 21, 2025
As people in Hammanskraal trudge up to the water tank to get their share, the road is littered with election posters.
From Seattle Times ● May 23, 2024
The Dodgers trudge to an opening-day, come-from-behind win in Seoul, defeating the Padres 5-2 thanks to a four-run rally in the eighth inning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2024
I trudge through the hallway to the shower.
From "Every Day" by David Levithan
On a cold November morning, designer Isaac Mizrahi gets up, leaves his apartment, and trudges to the corner newsstand to pick up a copy of Women’s Wear Daily.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026
In a country better known for industrial farming, highly processed food and suspiciously long-lasting bread, Chuck Childers rises before dawn and trudges off to operate one of America's oldest functioning gristmills.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
A young woman trudges back to her apartment after a day of work.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
For now, Zombie LIV trudges on at a tournament in Mexico City that neither you or I are watching.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
A line, a short line trudges off into the morning.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
Pedestrians in plastic rain ponchos trudged through murky floodwaters in Bangkok's east -- knee-deep in some areas of a grocery store parking lot -- floating their belongings in plastic tubs alongside them, AFP journalists saw.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
Wodehouse caper: “Jacqui Cutler trudged into her expansive kitchen, looking every bit as worn out and miserable as someone who had spent the morning digging potatoes, which she most certainly had not.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Half-time in Houston and Brazil's players trudged off knowing what the mood would be back home.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
Two elephants trudged across a makeshift football field at Mexico's Guadalajara Zoo in a whacky attempt to predict the score of the 2026 World Cup's opening game.
From Barron's ● Jun. 6, 2026
He was a big man, dressed as a smith, and behind him trudged a horse—a stallion, huge and gray, with a broad back.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
We would be trudging up the hill to find the man who threw the switch.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
The image of Zinedine Zidane trudging past the pitchside World Cup trophy is legendary.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
He is a solitary, trudging in his galoshes through the snows of West Hartford, Conn., on his way to work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
Johnson was dismissed in the 55th minute after clattering into Lopez, a needless challenge that initially earned a yellow card from Erik Lambrechts before VAR sent him trudging to the dressing room.
From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2025
But even as he moved his tools, trudging back and forth to store them in the primitive litde structure he had built between two trees, he found himself thinking again of the old woman.
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
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