How to Use well-trodden in a Sentence

well-trodden

adjective

• Yet by 2020 this wasn’t a new frontier, but rather a well-trodden path.
  — Will Daniel, Fortune, 9 July 2024
• For many the protests and strikes cover well-trodden ground, tilted in favor of the government.
  — Nic Robertson, CNN, 2 Sep. 2024
• There’s a well-trodden path that gently zig-zags to the top and a more strenuous walk with ropes to assist with the steep incline.
  — Erika Owen, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Apr. 2024
• Most people stick to the well-trodden tourist path of beach, boardwalk, and classic seaside eateries.
  — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 16 Oct. 2023
• With its headset, Apple is once again walking a well-trodden path.
  — Matt Weinberger, Fortune, 29 June 2023
• When Apple and Microsoft emerged, the path to super wealth wasn’t well-trodden—or even imagined.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 5 Jan. 2024
• This allows for a deeper exploration of Asia, beyond the well-trodden paths.
  — William Mullane, Journal Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2024
• While the documentary covers a lot of well-trodden ground, the goal is to tell the story of WWII in a new engaging way for younger audiences.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 5 June 2024
• This was not a well-trodden path, especially for a 23-year-old musician who would have been by far the youngest person to fly into space.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 20 Feb. 2023
• But beyond the well-trodden coastline of Mauritius, this may be the year its little sister, Rodrigues, a speck of an island an hour-and-a-half flight east, gets its due.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Nov. 2023
• From its age-old rivers to well-trodden hiking trails, West Virginia has made a name for itself as an outdoorsman's paradise, and Elkins is the perfect place to pitch your tent.
  — Zoe Denenberg, Southern Living, 11 Mar. 2024
• The hourlong program did trace a journey from darkness to light, a well-trodden trajectory in the world of concert music but one that endures for good reason.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Apr. 2023
• Beyond the crumbling bricks and well-trodden carpets, Los Potreros preserves a tiny slice of a much bigger Argentine history.
  — Sarah Marshall, Travel, 23 Jan. 2024
• Another challenge to pairing wine with spicy food is that hot or pungent dishes work best with wines that are low in tannin and have somewhat full textures, many of which are off the well-trodden wine track.
  — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 26 Apr. 2024
• Good thing Holmes has a lookalike in her 18-year-old daughter Suri, who seems to be following—quite literally—in her mother’s well-trodden footsteps.
  — Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 29 July 2024
• Year after year, the world’s yachting circuit flocks to these well-trodden waters, but this is set to change with the opening of an alluring new destination next year—set away in the pristine waters of the Red Sea.
  — Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 31 Oct. 2023
• In the aftermath of the rampage, the third school shooting in the country this year, lawmakers returned to their well-trodden positions in responding to gun violence.
  — Scott Wong, NBC News, 29 Mar. 2023
• Surgeons are sometimes seen as the mechanics of the medical profession, so confident in their craft that there is no room to deviate from a well-trodden path.
  — Deeptee Jain, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
• The moment Park focuses her screenplay on — the weeks before leaving for college — is well-trodden territory for young-adult movies.
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2024
• Overnight, travelers facing long delays and cancellations were resigned to trying to get some sleep on the airport’s well-trodden carpeted floor.
  — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2024
• An original vantage on well-trodden streets (the sort someone should apply to contemporary Chicago).
  — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 13 Sep. 2023
• True superstar leaders and the antidote to hubris There is a well-trodden path from brilliance to success, power, hubris, and ultimately disaster.
  — Jennifer Sundberg, Fortune, 4 Jan. 2024
• The agonizing question of the next 24 hours - as Iran fashions its narrative of how this major humiliation came to be - is what remaining steps are there on this well-trodden ladder, and what is at its peak?
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 31 July 2024
• Some have criticized the state commission for spending time and resources researching seemingly well-trodden ground.
  — Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 10 Aug. 2024
• It’s separated from the mainland by the Intracoastal Waterway and offers a unique haven for avid fishermen and those seeking hidden gems over well-trodden tourist attractions.
  — Lindsay Tigar, Travel + Leisure, 14 Mar. 2023
• Every member of the Birthday Party was distinct and vital, and the film refreshingly sidesteps the well-trodden and misleading path of presenting Cave as the singular genius and driving creative force.
  — Daniel Dylan Wray, Pitchfork, 11 Oct. 2023
• Michaela Katzman, who is teaching the elective at the Academy of International Studies this year, said she - alongside her students - has learned to consider well-trodden historical paths in a new light.
  — Hannah Natanson, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Feb. 2023
• His road to management took a radical detour from the well-trodden paths of graduate programs and senior executive mentorship.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2023
• Costa Rica Relocating to well-trodden Costa Rica isn't a novel idea for anyone who has ever visited the country and met a few friendly expats along the way, but there's a reason for its persisting popularity.
  — Lilly Graves, Travel + Leisure, 6 June 2023
• Rather, filmmakers with roots in these communities are leaving behind well-trodden narratives of inspiring pluck and shifting to stories with harder, darker concerns, exploring that unsettled state of belonging to two worlds, or, perhaps, neither.
  — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024