trodden

Example Sentences

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“We’ll likely follow the same path we’ve trodden in the United States, and so it will begin with a commercial footprint.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

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

They were both more accomplished and better read than I was; but with eagerness I followed in the path of knowledge they had trodden before me.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë