wading

present participle of wade

Example Sentences

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Verb
  • In the engaging trailer that continues the sinister tale of Vault-Tec, The Ghoul arrives in New Vegas alongside Lucy MacLean (Ella Purnell) and Dogmeat, trudging into the outskirts of New Vegas.
    Jeff Spry, Space.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Without a doubt there are people who would pay serious money to see Jeffrey Katzenberg hanging out and trudging through the sand and dirt at Burning Man.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 22 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • He’s blessed with a tense, scrabbling physicality on screen, plus a baby-Brando glower beneath a head of striking blond curls, and Nemes directs him into a stance of braced, vulnerable defensiveness that serves the film’s purposes well — even if his character, too, wants for interior light.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Her left hand is scrabbling over the surface of the thin soil, grasping at dead leaves, something to wipe herself.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The fourth quarter of Sunday’s early-window games featured one head-scratching special teams play and a game in which two teams traded consecutive return scores in a span of 12 seconds.
    Saad Yousuf, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Both are resistant to cracking and scratching, but Apple says the second-generation material is three times more resistant to scratching.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • While delegation may be the superpower of some business leaders, Il Signor Armani was famous for exerting control over every detail large and small in the business.
    Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • This perception is shared by the private sector, which is exerting increasing pressure on the Brazilian government to grant Chinese firms greater access to the Brazilian market.
    HUSSEIN KALOUT, Foreign Affairs, 2 Sep. 2025
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“Wading.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wading. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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