trudge
Frequently Asked Questions
- The kids just trudged upstairs to bed.
- We were trudging through the muddy field, hoping to find our way back to the trail.
- The walk up the hill to the old church is a real trudge.
Example Sentences
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“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
Analysts have pointed to a few reasons they believe stocks are set to trudge higher into New Year’s Day.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 21, 2025
On a blistering summer day, Aduba quickly styled her hair in Bantu knots as she prepared to trudge to another round of back-to-back auditions, certain more nos were on the way.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2025
Weary residents trudge through the streets as bulldozers try to scoop up the liquid mess.
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2024
“Perhaps someone in the Resistance will know who Cook is,” I say that evening as Izzi and I trudge to the Commandant’s bedroom with buckets and dusters.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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
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
As the film trudges from his hospice bed to his youth, we’ll come to see that the doomed townsfolk have the same faces and mannerisms of people Chuck knew as a child.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2025
Helmuth retrieves his slop bucket, trudges back to his cell.
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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
Workers trudged miles to their jobs as horses were too weak to pull streetcars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
They were encountered by Spanish soldiers who first trudged and trekked north in the 1770s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
Two elephants trudged across a makeshift football field at Mexico's Guadalajara Zoo in a whacky attempt to predict the score of the 2026 World Cup's opening game.
From Barron's ● Jun. 6, 2026
As her grandparents trudged back through the wheat, Hanako gathered the boxes.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
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
For all the times that feeding yourself feels like trudging through a fog of obligation, sometimes a craving arrives fully formed, as if it’s been plotting in the background.
From Salon ● Nov. 12, 2025
Now the clocks have gone back and the evenings are darker, many of us are trudging to work and back in the dark and sometimes our mood is lower as well.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2025
He closed it and opened another: the smoke-laden air over an industrial city, with a line of chained and sullen workers trudging into a factory.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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