trudged

past tense of trudge

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of trudged Hair disheveled, a dazed and bewildered look in his eyes, the coach trudged into his own dressing room to regroup and get a rundown of a growing list of injuries. Mike Jones, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025 But for the first time this year — as was determined before the Carolina Panthers trudged off the field 1-3 wearing their 42-13 loss to the New England Patriots — turnover-free football wasn’t enough. Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 29 Sep. 2025 As boos rained down from the Philly crowd and Carter trudged to the locker-room, TV cameras showed Carter appearing to spit at Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott. Jacob Lev, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025 In front of me Elis Holmes trudged along, picking out the best going, searching for moose paths that led around the worst of the down stuff, breaking trail through the thimbleberries. Ben East, Outdoor Life, 28 Aug. 2025 Behind the provisional stage, cars passed by and buses trudged along to their next stop while passengers glanced curiously at the impromptu rock show that shut the street down. Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 22 Aug. 2025 These were tiny towns where restaurants serve breakfast with eggs supplied by on-property chickens and eagles are visible on mosquito-laden trails that railroad cars once trudged. Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025 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 Lindsay Lohan and other celebrities have famously posed for the paparazzi and trudged the red carpet wearing SCRAM and other ankle monitors. Emily Waltz, IEEE Spectrum, 19 May 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trudged
Verb
  • And then, after Nakashima sent a first serve back into the middle with good depth, slightly tucking the Spaniard up, Alcaraz shuffled backward and detonated an inside-in forehand to win the match.
    Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • But what that led to, advocates and attorneys say, is that children in the state’s care continued to be in night to night placements and shuffled from home to home.
    Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Except, of course, for that old dinosaur that somehow stumbled into a misplaced DeLorean, fired up the flux capacitor, and time travelled from the stone ages straight to the Uli beach.
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Determined to keep searching, Hollie eventually stumbled on a TLC episode featuring a boy named Gio, who also had Schwartz-Jampel Syndrome.
    Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • By Dom Luszczyszyn, Sean Gentille and Shayna Goldman Coming into last season, the Washington Capitals had taken major steps to improve a roster that, by plenty of measures, had fluked its way into the postseason and summarily gotten stomped in the first round.
    The Athletic NHL, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • When the band quickly left before the encore, the elated, yet sweaty, audience clapped their hands and stomped their feet without virtually anyone leaving the building.
    Josh Chesler, AZCentral.com, 28 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Both teams are currently ranked in the top 10, and as is well-documented, Franklin has struggled in such games.
    Cameron Teague Robinson, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2025
  • The food bank has struggled to keep up with demand following the cuts and a decrease in private donations.
    ProPublica, ProPublica, 3 Oct. 2025

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