Thesaurus results for WALKED

walked

verb

past tense of walk

as in stepped

to go on foot I walked slowly to school

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as in struck

to refuse to work in order to force an employer to meet demands workers threatened to walk unless management agreed to shoulder more of the cost of health insurance

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Recent Examples of walked She was rescued by the Riverside County firefighters and walked away without injuries. — Iris Kwok follow nov. 6, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2026 The little lumberjack walked to the far end of the forest and started cutting. — Jeremy MacLiver, Forbes.com, 6 Nov. 2026 As most of the guys surrounded the TV, readying for kickoff, Zorich walked the perimeter, thumbs tucked into the front of his jeans, peering intensely at the memorabilia hanging on the walls. — Dana Oneil, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2026 The portion of the park Shahzad walked around lacked any structures. — Finnegan Belleau, Chicago Tribune, 6 Nov. 2026 Cars sat stalled in floodwaters as some people walked home barefoot, navigating streets that had become nearly impassable. — Chelsea Jones, CBS News, 5 Nov. 2026 Elsewhere, a pink-haired Adéla and smoky-eyed Demi Lovato walked the red carpet before a night of festivities joined by the likes of Cynthia Erivo, Charlize Theron and more. — Arushi Jacob, Footwear News, 30 Oct. 2026 When the sidewalk ended, Brown walked across the four empty lanes towards the other sidewalk. — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 30 Oct. 2026 Talented players like Brian Burns, Frankie Luvu and Jeremy Chinn walked. — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 30 Oct. 2026

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Verb

Hall has largely stepped away from Hollywood in recent years.

— Angelique Brenes, PEOPLE, 7 Nov. 2026
Could the school really be permitted to screen applicants to make sure not a single gay student stepped foot on their campus?

— Megan Schrader, Denver Post, 7 Nov. 2026

Definition of stepped

Verb

According to police, the front driver’s side of the pickup struck the rear passenger side of the tractor and part of the trailer.

— Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Nov. 2026
Meanwhile, Qatar's national gas company said one of its vessels was struck in the Persian Gulf, and Israeli strikes on Gaza killed eight people, including a young boy.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of struck

Verb

Cara Hile and her mother, Jeri, strolled up to a two-story home in Brookside Saturday, pamphlets in-hand.

— Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 3 Nov. 2026
Jackson’s blind was situated on rolling private farmland, and late that afternoon a fawn deer strolled down a mountain trail toward Jackson shortly before nightfall.

— Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of strolled

Verb

Drought and a late freeze made this a tough year for Colorado's black bears, and hungry bears wandered into neighborhoods across the state looking for food.

— Anna Alejo, CBS News, 6 Nov. 2026
One evening, after a day of rain, Steven and I wandered in the Giardino della Misericordia, close to our apartment.

— Artforum, Artforum, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of wandered

Verb

In steady rain and silence, thousands marched in Novi Sad on Sunday in a gesture of respect for the victims.

— MARKO DROBNJAKOVIC, Arkansas Online, 2 Nov. 2026
At dawn on October 18, 1776, four thousand British and Hessian soldiers marched along the narrow country road that followed the high ground the rock sits on.

— Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2026