trudging

Example Sentences

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Trudging through snow, a young Finnish conscript carefully draws a thin blue wire between two pine trees.

From Barron's • Feb. 6, 2026

Trudging across the snowy border, there were mothers pushing strollers, a schoolgirl clutching her books, a woman carrying a bag of toilet paper and another carrying a small dog.

From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2022

Trudging into the water day in, day out, means Bruce feels the effects of climate change every day, including the rise in water levels.

From BBC • Nov. 5, 2021

Trudging around battlefields is tiring, but New York City is its own kind of exhausting, especially when the Airbnb is a fourth-floor Brooklyn walk-up away.

From Washington Post • May 30, 2019

Trudging forward like a sleepwalker in the bitter cold, I make my way down the driveway, then turn left and plod up the rutted dirt road to the falling-down bridge.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline