trudged; trudging
: to walk or march steadily and usually laboriously
trudged through deep snow
: to trudge along or over
trudger
noun
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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Armond White, National Review, 4 June 2025
Biologists trudged through the grassy nature preserve carrying cloth bags that contained fearsome-seeming cargo: 42 snake-eating apex predators, bred in Lake County.
—Olivia Lloyd, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 May 2025
Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 3 June 2025
Spike Jonze’s five-minute ad for AirPods doubles down on their superpower: to turn an ordinary trudge down the block into an apocalyptic drama or a summertime scene into a choreographed group freakout.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 25 Apr. 2025
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Verb
Throughout hunt, chase and combat, Maclean and Ryan feature wide shots of enemies trudging across lakes and coves that suggest tribal movement across continents.
—Armond White, National Review, 4 June 2025
Biologists trudged through the grassy nature preserve carrying cloth bags that contained fearsome-seeming cargo: 42 snake-eating apex predators, bred in Lake County.
—Olivia Lloyd, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 May 2025
Noun
The haze will linger Wednesday in parts of the Midwest, East and South, and a new wave of thicker smoke could rush into the north-central US as a cold front trudges east.
—Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 3 June 2025
Spike Jonze’s five-minute ad for AirPods doubles down on their superpower: to turn an ordinary trudge down the block into an apocalyptic drama or a summertime scene into a choreographed group freakout.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 25 Apr. 2025
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“Trudge.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trudge. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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