Example Sentences

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"Bipedalism is certainly a unique path for crocodile relatives to take, but it's a path well-trod by dinosaurs and later birds. It obviously worked for these animals."

From Science Daily • May 29, 2026

“Man on Fire” goes down a few well-trod, genre-specific paths, among them premise-abandonment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

This is well-trod philosophical ground — referencing “negative” and “positive” rights, natural law and all the usual back and forth about originalism and whether the Constitution is living or static.

From Salon • Apr. 19, 2026

In joining Lilly, Marks is traveling a well-trod path of former top FDA officials taking jobs at the companies they once regulated.

From Barron's • Oct. 7, 2025

From where he’s standing, he can see the sky and a well-trod path that he knows will lead him out of these woods no matter which way he follows it.

From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone