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

Seoul has for decades trodden a fine line between China, its top trading partner, and the United States, its chief defence guarantor.

From Barron's • Jan. 4, 2026

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

The cables came into being in the late 1800s, after celebrated geologist Josiah Whitney proclaimed the 8,800-foot summit of Half Dome “perfectly inaccessible” and declared it would “never be trodden by human foot.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2024

There was a yell that shook the forest After it, on the trodden turf with its hoof marks and kicked sods and « debris of offensive weapons, there was an unnatural silence.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White