How to Use trudge in a Sentence

trudge

1 of 2 verb

• She trudged up the hill.
• I was trudging through the snow.
• Skyler said the volunteers trudged to the park to see the space.
  — oregonlive, 30 Oct. 2019
• Wong flew out and his teammates trudged through the back of the dugout as if in a trance.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
• Mathews will moan, trudging out to the barn on a rainy day to feed the horses.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 28 Feb. 2023
• Scores of children trudged around, their breaths twisting up on the frosty air.
  — Monisha Rajesh, Travel + Leisure, 23 Dec. 2023
• People trudge through the mud as the tides recede in Tampa Bay on Sept. 28.
  — Kate Hogan, Peoplemag, 28 Sep. 2022
• But as the Rockets trudge through Year 3 of their rebuild, the clock is now ticking.
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 3 Feb. 2023
• For now, people still have to trudge over to the eye doctor for an exam.
  — Lauren Debter, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2021
• Liu and Suki trudged down the sandy bank to the river where a small turtle, the size of a sand dollar, swam close to the shore.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 12 July 2023
• Saw the photograph of Bo, buried deep in the snow, trudging to his girlfriend’s door.
  — Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2020
• But a blast from Ida could hinder the town's effort to trudge forward.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2021
• By the time Iowans trudged through the snowy night to cast their votes, his victory was all but certain.
  — TIME, 16 Jan. 2024
• When the sky cleared, the survivors trudged through a thick layer of ash to get to the small inflatable docked on the jetty.
  — Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 13 July 2023
• But after trudging through the snow, the cold seeps in and your feet become freezing and wet.
  — The Editors, Outside Online, 31 Jan. 2020
• Clippers fans skipped away with the highest of hopes, while Lakers fans trudged away with the greatest of fears.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2019
• Warriors dropped like flies as two of the oldest teams in the NBA trudged into the deepest part of overtime.
  — Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2024
• For this trip, go left, hike 0.4 miles then head right and trudge 0.1 miles up paved Chavez Ranch Road to the scenic overlook parking area.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 12 Nov. 2022
• Brex heeled Chelsea boots that add a fresh pop of color to any outfit but are still sturdy enough to trudge through the snow.
  — Nneya Richards, Travel + Leisure, 30 Dec. 2023
• Bills Mafia Nice showing from a crew that trudged through the snow to get a frigid viewing of a playoff conquest.
  — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2024
• The dumbstruck crowd watched as aged captain Patrice Bergeron trudged to the room in the funeral din of the Garden.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2023
• The movie’s protagonist, Arthur Fleck, would trudge up them on his way home from work.
  — Julia Jacobs, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2019
• That's important as the Colts trudge through this season.
  — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Nov. 2022
• Yes, fads will come and go, preferences will stand tall and debates will trudge on.
  — Brooklyn White, Essence, 29 Sep. 2022
• Between those two poles, my brain is stuck in neutral, unable to wait for the future or trudge through what’s left of the present.
  — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2021
• The custodians trudge out to soak up the water with buckets and mops.
  — Connor Sanders, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Sep. 2022
• The first big views are revealed after less than a mile of uphill trudging.
  — Mare Czinar, azcentral, 31 Oct. 2019
• Some places could see a month’s worth of rainfall as the waterlogged system trudges north.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
• The Giants, 109 wins and all, will trudge into a long offseason.
  — Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Oct. 2021
• Saturday afternoon, the players trudged off the field and up the ramp to their locker room.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Nov. 2023

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trudge

2 of 2 noun

• While the flames were voracious up higher, the fire’s pathway down the hillside slowed to a trudge.
  — Megan Cassidy, SFChronicle.com, 24 Aug. 2020
• Here are a few items of interest to get you through that last trudge before the weekend.
  — Nicholas Florko, STAT, 7 Aug. 2021
• The original women begin the slow trudge back to their room.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 18 Oct. 2022
• Starting a third of the way to the crater, the steepness of the trail slowed everyone’s pace to a meditative trudge.
  — Heidi Julavit, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2021
• And later on, what should have been a 10-minute walk through the village of Ouchi-juku—a row of thatched huts and igloos—turned into a 30-minute trudge.
  — Adam H. Graham, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Oct. 2018
• Instead the flashes seared on Dodgers’ fans memories will be of downcast heads and slow trudges off the field.
  — Stephanie Apstein, SI.com, 2 Nov. 2017
• That's what the best waterproof shoes for men are here for—helping your trudge through miles of wet, slushy asphalt.
  — Maverick Li, Men's Health, 19 Jan. 2023
• Snowboarders do the same thing with split boards, which come apart to create mini-skis with skins for the uphill trudge.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2020
• Behind him there are hordes of models with that disturbing heavy-heeled trudge.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 14 Sep. 2018
• The Mountain Between Us doesn’t bother to answer, or give you any sense of how much time has elapsed during their languid trudge through the snow.
  — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 4 Oct. 2017
• The Power of the Dog is very good — not Jane Campion’s best, but it’s a trudge through the terrors of toxic masculinity.
  — Vulture, 7 Feb. 2022
• Partly to blame is the movie March of The Penguins, which proposed that the penguins’ annual trudge across the ice flows is somehow an epic love story.
  — National Geographic, 26 May 2018
• And like Sabbath, these guys get that channeling a trudge through the tar pits can yield much heavier results than playing fast.
  — Ed Masley, azcentral, 5 Mar. 2020
• The ideas—the mystery of the self, the unrelenting trudge of time—are grippy and knotty, and Duras, by trying too hard to pin them down, often loses hold of them.
  — Lynn Steger Strong, The Atlantic, 16 Dec. 2022
• Consequently, the months leading up to the Academy Awards can feel like a trudge toward the inevitable.
  — Jon Frosch, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Dec. 2022
• A week-by-week trudge on a treadmill that the NBA schedule-maker cruelly set on a steep gradient.
  — Dallas News, 25 Jan. 2021
• The heavy trudge of electric guitar joins James Hetfield in the verses, while twinges of acoustic guitar adorn its chorus, adding more of that scorched earth, desert drift feeling.
  — Johnny Loftus, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2022
• Instead of chasing bets on this year’s road to the Final Four, Cappelen is beginning the long trudge to recovery.
  — Nerd Wallet, oregonlive, 28 Mar. 2023
• Their 2015 full-length Qliphoth (Halo of Flies) howls from frantic hardcore head snapping to doom trudge, pausing in the middle for an ambient touch.
  — Noah Berlatsky, Chicago Reader, 15 Dec. 2017
• Even in a losing effort, Chris Sale continued to a trudge toward a little bit of history.
  — Connor Grossman, SI.com, 7 July 2017
• The slow trudge toward self-improvement might also be one reason to not rush into nabbing a booster shot.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2021
• Meanwhile, thousands of Bruins fans sat frozen in the cool night air, holding their heads in their hands as their team made its familiar losing trudge into the tunnel.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2021
• But the trudge was a tour de force, as Coolio switches between high-handed taunts and head-clutching regret with a monologist’s deftness.
  — Brad Shoup, Billboard, 4 Oct. 2022
• The uphill trudge begins where the trail crosses unsigned Forest Road 717 and moves onto the first of several edge-hugging switchbacks.
  — Mare Czinar, azcentral, 7 June 2019
• Ordinary sounds are jacked up to a paranoid pitch; when Joe takes a jelly bean and squeezes it, there is a granular crunch, and his trudge along a dusty track is as resonant as the march of a platoon.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2018
• The disappointing duo trudge into one of the coldest bowl games each season with more bad news: uncertainty at QB.
  — Dan Gelston, The Seattle Times, 26 Dec. 2018
• To longtime followers of the ins and outs of climate policy, the trip was an important stop on the trudge to the United Nations climate conference to be held in Dubai this fall.
  — Justin Worland, Time, 20 July 2023
• Three times a week, hundreds of thousands of Americans with end-stage kidney disease trudge to dialysis centers to get the treatment that keeps them alive.
  — Bloomberg News, oregonlive.com, 10 July 2019
• Were non-avian dinosaurs already in decline, and the asteroid just sped up their trudge toward extinction?
  — Corinne Purtillstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2022
• After all, the temperature hung in the 20s all day and the grey skies overhead turned Saturday into another dreary trudge through the thick of winter.
  — cleveland.com, 11 Feb. 2018

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024