trudge

Many people are sticking with their current job, knowing that unemployed workers have to trudge through job hunts that last for months.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026

“Industrial production in the eurozone continues to trudge along at a sluggish pace without clear direction,” said Bert Colijn, senior economist at ING.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

On the now daily trudge to work through the snow and ice, I came across a mum and daughter scraping their car clear of heavy snow.

From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2026

As people in Hammanskraal trudge up to the water tank to get their share, the road is littered with election posters.

From Seattle Times ● May 23, 2024

I trudge back home and am greeted by a pungent odor and a big commotion in the kitchen.

From "Zara’s Rules for Record-Breaking Fun" by Hena Khan

On a cold November morning, designer Isaac Mizrahi gets up, leaves his apartment, and trudges to the corner newsstand to pick up a copy of Women’s Wear Daily.

From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026

In a country better known for industrial farming, highly processed food and suspiciously long-lasting bread, Chuck Childers rises before dawn and trudges off to operate one of America's oldest functioning gristmills.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

A young woman trudges back to her apartment after a day of work.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

For now, Zombie LIV trudges on at a tournament in Mexico City that neither you or I are watching.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

Soon, Olive trudges across the neighborhood, pine needles flying, looking all Olive-like.

From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

Pedestrians in plastic rain ponchos trudged through murky floodwaters in Bangkok's east -- knee-deep in some areas of a grocery store parking lot -- floating their belongings in plastic tubs alongside them, AFP journalists saw.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

On a clammy late-summer morning in September 2010, full of dread and anxiety, I trudged toward Tabla, rehearsing the message I’d soon deliver.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Workers trudged miles to their jobs as horses were too weak to pull streetcars.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

Half-time in Houston and Brazil's players trudged off knowing what the mood would be back home.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

So, while her classmates filed outside, Hazel slung her backpack over her shoulder and trudged down the hall to the counselor’s office.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu

We would be trudging up the hill to find the man who threw the switch.

From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026

I’m happy to share verbal news, but I didn’t want videos or photos of me trudging around.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026

The largest beef processor in the U.S. by volume is among companies trudging through a nationwide cattle shortage that’s driving up prices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026

Few people forget their school cross-country days, trudging through murky playing fields on freezing winter afternoons, invariably clad in kit sourced from the lost property bin.

From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2026

This is all so discouraging that I think we’ll leave it here and return to our two lonely heroes trudging through the lost world of the Chattahoochee.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson