wade through
Example Sentences
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Amid this upheaval, he wanted to be sure that his son, Septimius, inherited the wisdom of the ancient Greeks—but doubted whether Septimius would have the patience to wade through a vast corpus of 1,000-year-old works.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
We have enough television to wade through as it is.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026
However, Holyrood members will first have to wade through about 300 proposed changes to the Bill, which will be debated in the chamber across three days, starting on Tuesday.
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2026
Fanning’s ability to hop between a thorny Norwegian drama and a high-concept alien movie is exactly the kind of exciting malleability that audiences forced to wade through modern cinema’s sea of sameness deserve.
From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2026
They went back the same way they had come, but they did not have to wade through the river.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
