trudged; trudging
: to walk or march steadily and usually laboriously
trudged through deep snow
: to trudge along or over
trudger
noun
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Examples of trudge in a Sentence
Verb
I was trudging through the snow.
She trudged up the hill.
Noun
a trudge across the snow
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Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2025
All-weather city boots can be a depressing relic of cold and slush, but trudging into January doesn’t have to be such a drag.
—airmail.news, 11 Jan. 2025
Shahar Ziv, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
The slow, wearisome trudge towards Everton’s new dawn continues.
—Patrick Boyland, The Athletic, 24 Nov. 2024
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Verb
Now the biggest challenge may be trudging out in the cold, finding Yuengling at your local watering hole and, for newbies, pronouncing the name.
—Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2025
All-weather city boots can be a depressing relic of cold and slush, but trudging into January doesn’t have to be such a drag.
—airmail.news, 11 Jan. 2025
Noun
As January trudges, many of us have already started receiving the alphabet soup of yearly tax forms.
—Shahar Ziv, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
The slow, wearisome trudge towards Everton’s new dawn continues.
—Patrick Boyland, The Athletic, 24 Nov. 2024
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“Trudge.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trudge. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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