trudged

past tense of trudge

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of trudged 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 Black Sabbath’s ‘Paranoid’ echoed over the speakers as the players trudged down the tunnel at half-time, pre-empting Villa’s full-time emotions. Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 25 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 Expressionless, Watkins trudged off at full time. Jacob Tanswell, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 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
  • Budget cuts are about to bring big changes to San Diego’s 37 neighborhood library branches — including shorter hours, shuffled staff and rescheduled activities.
    David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Over the past two months, he’s been shuffled through three detention centers despite attempts to pay a bond set by the immigration judge.
    Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 22 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • And arguing with the benefits of a difficult tuneup game can be a useless point, especially as Napier stumbled in from a practice that ran almost 10 minutes long, gearing up for USF.
    Noah White, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Closer Bryan Abreu stumbled but has earned the benefit of the doubt with the dominance he’s displayed.
    Chandler Rome, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Many in Hollywood were dubious as to whether Universal and Amblin could reboot the Jurassic franchise for a third time, and birth a new trilogy more than three decades after Steven Spielberg’s dinos first stomped onto the big screen in 1993’s Jurassic Park.
    Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025
  • People expecting a state championship rematch between Benet and Marist in the Crimson Classic finals had those plans stomped upon Saturday when Lockport ended up surprising the Redwings 29-27, 18-25, 15-10 in the semifinals.
    Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Most notably, the Chargers struggled to contain Mahomes in the pocket.
    Jesse Newell, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Fighter jets have long struggled to integrate AI into radar systems due to limited space, power, and processing capacity.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 6 Sep. 2025

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“Trudged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trudged. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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