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

As hip-hop rose from the streets to the mainstream in the 90s, the rappers and hustlers that broke through had few role models who had trodden that path before them.

From BBC • Nov. 12, 2024

Behind him, the wood of the staircase settled back upon itself, after he had trodden it.

From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill