How to Use trudge in a Sentence

trudge

1 of 2 verb

• She trudged up the hill.
• I was trudging through the snow.
• The rest of the team trudged off the field with a stunned look.
  — Jeff Zrebiec, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2025
• People in evening wear trudged down the street, most with a phone to their ear.
  — Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 26 Apr. 2026
• 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
• Scores of children trudged around, their breaths twisting up on the frosty air.
  — Monisha Rajesh, Travel + Leisure, 23 Dec. 2023
• Fetch your boots and prepare to trudge deep into a new rabbit hole.
  — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 23 Mar. 2026
• Or trudge a mile through six inches of mud just to get to their computer.
  — Shani Harmon, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026
• For now, people still have to trudge over to the eye doctor for an exam.
  — Lauren Debter, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2021
• Mathews will moan, trudging out to the barn on a rainy day to feed the horses.
  — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 28 Feb. 2023
• Yes, fads will come and go, preferences will stand tall and debates will trudge on.
  — Brooklyn White, Essence, 29 Sep. 2022
• But instead of a short gain, Allen and his mates trudged all the way into the end zone.
  — Tim Graham, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
• Just trudged over to talk to Darren Rizzi on the sideline.
  — Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 6 Nov. 2025
• The first big views are revealed after less than a mile of uphill trudging.
  — Mare Czinar, azcentral, 31 Oct. 2019
• This left us no option but to trudge everywhere by foot, no matter how far.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2023
• Still, Kyle Shanahan’s team has trudged its way to 4-2.
  — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 17 Oct. 2025
• Alvarez spoiled both, then took a fastball over the outer half and turned to trudge back to his dugout.
  — Matt Kawahara, Houston Chronicle, 29 Mar. 2026
• When commuters need to trudge through snowy or icy paths, regular footwear just isn't safe or warm enough.
  — Sian Babish, chicagotribune.com, 12 Mar. 2021
• But a blast from Ida could hinder the town's effort to trudge forward.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2021
• People trudged through heavy snow in several parts of the country to cast their votes.
  — Cnbc.com Staff, CNBC, 8 Feb. 2026
• The rest of our fair crew is trudging along through broken wrists and CT scans.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 8 Jan. 2026
• Every parent has watched their child trudge off to school with a backpack over their shoulders.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2022
• But after trudging through the snow, the cold seeps in and your feet become freezing and wet.
  — The Editors, Outside Online, 31 Jan. 2020
• So, Bundle gets all three of her men, but trudges back home in heartbroken tears.
  — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 15 Jan. 2026
• There are some boos as the players trudge off after the first 45 minutes.
  — Kaya Kaynak, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
• Hundreds of people trudged up the steep switchbacks in single file.
  — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2026
• Wiley and her group trudged through the murky water in the morning, feet squelching in the muck.
  — Jack Prator, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2025
• Residents in rain boots trudged through ankle-deep water.
  — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2026
• The custodians trudge out to soak up the water with buckets and mops.
  — Connor Sanders, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Sep. 2022

trudge

2 of 2 noun

• That can just become a bit of a trudge.
  — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 14 Apr. 2026
• And a painful season in FoCo trudges on.
  — Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 24 Oct. 2025
• Here are a few items of interest to get you through that last trudge before the weekend.
  — Nicholas Florko, STAT, 7 Aug. 2021
• Altuve flung his bat and began a slow trudge toward second base.
  — Chandler Rome, New York Times, 20 June 2026
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Now the nearly two-month trudge to the ceremony itself begins.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2026
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The postpandemic recovery has been an uphill trudge for art house theaters and smaller chains.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2022
• Wrist gaiters, powder skirt, and adjustable hood keep snow out, while underarm zips provide ventilation for the trudge.
  — Outside, 13 Nov. 2025
• Police had sealed off the pedestrian pass with barricades; people could move through only a narrow corridor, in a slow, steady trudge.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2022
• Even in a losing effort, Chris Sale continued to a trudge toward a little bit of history.
  — Connor Grossman, SI.com, 7 July 2017
• Thousands of demonstrators, harassed by snow flurries and sleet, trudge along a downtown boulevard fringed by gaudy shops and shout epithets into the night.
  — Glen Johnson, latimes.com, 26 Dec. 2017
• That means that any single packet of radiation can escape to space only after a long, random trudge through the atmosphere.
  — Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
• 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
• 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
• A week-by-week trudge on a treadmill that the NBA schedule-maker cruelly set on a steep gradient.
  — Dallas News, 25 Jan. 2021
• Amid this trudge into irrelevance, the form has seen one true outlier in Imagine Dragons.
  — Bobby Olivier, Billboard, 22 June 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Nature is there to inspire, not antagonize, them, though when their car breaks down eight miles from the house, forcing an arduous trudge through the forest, Leon’s attitude begins to sour.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 22 Feb. 2023