How To Use Trudge In A Sentence

  • Nevertheless, she put one foot in front of the other numbing herself to the pain and commenced her trudge.
  • Freestyle in those days was the trudgen, an alternating overarm stroke with a scissors kick.
  • He laughs as he recalls a particularly arduous day on location, trying to take some gear off a make-up girl for a long trudge up a hillside for the next scene, and being told off for it.
  • The instruments trudge along at a snail's pace and the recording quality is poor at best.
  • But this served only to stimulate the already keen energies of the Federal forces, who waded knee-deep through the clear Potomac, and trudged along over the 'sacred soil' with a willingness unchecked by the cold nor'wester that raged on that July morning. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862
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  • When we arrived home I trudged up the stairs on my own, as he remained downstairs.
  • He tore off his vest as he trudged angrily away, left. The Sun
  • A historical novel, it is no dutiful trudge - rather an artful waka, rowing fast and with purpose.
  • About 100 kilometres away from the boma, a bare-footed lad trudged his way to a ramshackle school in Luumbo village down in the Gwembe valley.
  • I made it to Home Sweet Home dead dog-tired, checked in, trudged to my room, and opened the door. The Exorsistah: X Returns
  • We descended and scrambled and zigged and zagged and trudged ever on.
  • An icy blast of wind from the Arctic swirled down the hillside and froze the skin on his face. He grimaced, hunched his shoulders, and trudged on.
  • Wherefore do thou write him a letter and chide him angrily and spare him no manner of reproof, but threaten him with dreadful threats and menace him with death and say to him, ‘Whence hast thou knowledge of me, that thou durst write me, O dog of a merchant, O thou who trudgest far and wide all thy days in wilds and wolds for the sake of gaining a dirham or a dinar? The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • She trudged on through the thick, swirling mist.
  • And then, so that I might not perjure myself on the witness-stand or have the truth gimleted out of me by lawyers, I put on rags and hid myself among the thousands who trudge the highways and ride the trusses of freight-cars. The Landloper
  • Such perverse behaviour prompted calls for the group to be awarded the title of ‘the most charmless in rock’, so it's with a heavy heart that I trudge along London's Caledonian Road to meet them.
  • They trudged through the blowing sands making little forward progress.
  • We trudged home through deep snow.
  • The people trudged through their rainy grey days, repressed and emotionally withdrawn.
  • She then trudged up the three steps to the main door and rang the doorbell.
  • I've trudged through waist deep snow up an Idaho mountain after a cougar.
  • My poles and skis were attached to my pack and the downward trudge began as I suffered.
  • Seven faithful worthies trudged up the steps of the underground shelter, lugging the corpses of Mr. and Mrs. Hitler in Wehrmacht blankets. The Nazis' Last Stand
  • The long trudge goalwards, the much quicker or much slower return. Times, Sunday Times
  • He trudged home feeling lonely and let down.
  • As she walked, a spring began to overtake her trudge.
  • Cage seems unusually glum about his task, though Ron Perlman does get to headbutt Satan, and there's a tatty rope bridge across a chasm to give this dun-coloured trudge at least one hokily diverting set piece. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • We trudged up a long flight of stone steps to the highest point in the village.
  • Then we wandered around the market, before munching on some ice-cream and beginning the long trudge back to the car.
  • She merely lowered her head and trudged away, feeling eyes on the back of her head, listening to the sound of creaking wheels slowly diminish behind her. A Plague of Angels
  • I had not to trudge these dusty roads on foot with a broken-down good-for-nothing scatterling; I trod rich carpets, and slept under silken curtains. What Will He Do with It? — Complete
  • Victor smiles and shrugs, digs his hands into his leather pockets and trudges on across the damp sand.
  • I trudged to my distant little-green-car and puttered over to Kilbirnie, sun all golden and slanty at my back.
  • So as the sun dropped and the temperature plummeted and the sensible people among us huddled around the fire eating frozen balls of butter and sugar (the musher's answer to energy bars), Wade trudged onto the ice with eelpout on his mind. Mushing, Eelpout, and Butterballs
  • As the week trudged on, I began to realize I was in the midst of the winter "blahs," an affliction that seems to grab hold of virtually every adult living in the Rustbelt during the winter, particularly February. Tonawanda News Homepage
  • Without a word, they trudge down the gravel path towards the water's edge and rising sun, Georgie in jandals and Caroline in gumboots, their boat on their shoulders.
  • The 50-odd travelling support looked a disconsolate bunch as they trudged towards the covered away terracing for shelter from an unexpected torrential downpour.
  • Of course it was the monitor that was malfunctioning, which is an iffy thing to think about as one trudges back to bed and sleep. Say la vee
  • The trudgen stroke is a key link in the evolution of strokes from the breaststroke to the crawl.
  • This morning, I trudged through the knee-high drifts of wolves to bring you a picture which sums up the stark terror facing this country.
  • Last year, the racing community trudged away from Churchill Downs, groggy from a nightmare. Underdog Mine That Bird gives horse racing a lift
  • He pulled on a pair of dark jeans, and trudged down the stairs, grumbling about it being so early.
  • So we trudge on, making our way through the gray, slushy snow which no longer crunches under our feet, thanks to a light drizzle and heavy local traffic.
  • I trudged up the walkway into the tiny undersized school that I had the misfortune to attend.
  • As Millar trudged through the knee-high snow, he watched comrades - exhausted and disoriented - tumble into drifts.
  • I trudged to my room, all the way muttering about how she would blackmail me with this little bit of information.
  • THE opportunist mugger was given two years for robbing an exhausted special constable as he trudged home after tackling rioting gangs for 15 hours. The Sun
  • After the recriminations, the England team could only trudge back home in comprehensive defeat for the second time this year. Times, Sunday Times
  • There were no fireworks or opera singers as the players trudged off. Times, Sunday Times
  • A slow-moving film with a weak plot, it trudges its way to a disappointing finish and leaves you wondering why you bothered.
  • He smiled and trudged up through the powdery snow to set them free. The Broken God
  • He writes of Eudoxus as a student in Athens: - … so poor was he that he took up his abode at the Piraeus and trudged to Athens and back on foot each day.
  • We trudged back up the hill.
  • Reva Bergen trudged up the steep walk, burdened with grocery sacks.
  • I trudged down a roundabout route to the hut, my head down, a desperate desire to cry in my eyes.
  • I trudged over to a ramshackle building reminding me of a snack bar at our decrepit drive-in theater.
  • As we trudged through the dense rainforest we spotted several species of birds and pitcher plants.
  • All with the cheerful smile of women who know they don't have to trudge off to work on Monday morning to pay the bills. The Sun
  • He trudged wearily along the path.
  • Without a moment's hesitation the money was handed to the vendor of Ribston pippins, and away she trudged in high glee at the result of her good luck. The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators
  • Tugging his waterproof jacket closer around him, Mr. Quickfire trudged his way through the mud and mire.
  • The latest law is only one step in the slow trudge China is making out of the blind alley of Maoism.
  • All the way down the broken slope to Jugdulluk the little column trudged through the gauntlet of jezail fire which lined the road with dead and wounded. The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80
  • During this trek they trudged through blizzards in extreme conditions with only limited and poor supplies of food and running short of fuel. Times, Sunday Times
  • But the 16 games he has played since returning to the lineup from post-concussion symptoms have been a trudge back to his place among the team's top four defensemen. Not All Is Perfect With the Rangers
  • He tore off his vest as he trudged angrily away, left. The Sun
  • He trudged round London bookshops to sell his first books and also handled the distribution, hiring a minicab to make the deliveries. Times, Sunday Times
  • As the players trudged off after 90 gladiatorial minutes, there was more drama. Times, Sunday Times
  • The party trudged on, fording swollen rivers and cursing the wretched weather. George Washington’s First War
  • Five times he has trudged away with that horrible, sinking feeling of defeat. The Sun
  • Troopers of the Light Horse were riding with gunners from the artillery; cacolet camels, whose native drivers had their heads shrouded in blankets, trudged beside ambulance carts; here and there a man who had lost his horse stumbled wearily along, first in one column then in another; guns and ammunition-limbers were mingled with cable-waggons; and all followed blindly man or waggon in front of them. With Our Army in Palestine
  • With a sigh, she swept most of the potatoes into her apron, and trudged across the room, dropping only one, and deposited them all in a large pot over a fire pit.
  • Unlike his master, Trudge stoutly resists a planter's effort to sell his mistress into slavery.
  • So, with another oath he turned and trudged back the way he had come. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sighing, she grabbed her trunk full of clothes and a canvas bag full of other miscellaneous items, and trudged out the door.
  • He trudged wearily along the path.
  • Many of both groups have joined or will join the trudge back to mum and dad when their student days are over. Times, Sunday Times
  • All with the cheerful smile of women who know they don't have to trudge off to work on Monday morning to pay the bills. The Sun
  • She merely lowered her head and trudged away, feeling eyes on the back of her head, listening to the sound of creaking wheels slowly diminish behind her. A Plague of Angels
  • But for those still making the daily trudge to the office, what has actually changed in the last few years?
  • The men trudge thought 6 feet of snow on snowshoes.
  • THE opportunist mugger was given two years for robbing an exhausted special constable as he trudged home after tackling rioting gangs for 15 hours. The Sun
  • Slipping on a red plaid robe over her nightgown, Lydie slowly trudged to the front door.
  • Unfortunately, my snow honeymoon came to an abrupt end when beautiful white snow increasingly turned to disgusting brown slush, all of which we had to trudge through every day.
  • But nevertheless, she left the room and trudged up the stairs to the ship's deck.
  • Æneidos_ into English meetre, said that _Æneas_ was fayne to trudge out of The Arte of English Poesie
  • The long trudge goalwards, the much quicker or much slower return. Times, Sunday Times
  • With his back ramrod straight, he balances a heavy water jug on his head, spilling not a drop, and turns to trudge up the hill.
  • The 36 disappointed people trudged away. Times, Sunday Times
  • All with the cheerful smile of women who know they don't have to trudge off to work on Monday morning to pay the bills. The Sun
  • The Wimbledon crowd was given a desultory wave by their hero as he trudged away. The Sun
  • The biographical half of his book is hard-going, a trudge through lumpen text that often lacks cohesion. The Disappearing Maestro
  • Our trudge through the neighborhood is not quiet at all.
  • She trudged past the cutler's and after another few yards was all but blown against the door of the Scurlocks' home.
  • This was the third time in three years they have trudged back south pointless. The Sun
  • On Friday evenings the husbands, Simon among them, made their way up the mountainside from the train station by means of the one ancient village taxi, or else they trudged with their suitcases and their city bundles along the mile of dusty stone-strewn road, between high weedy growths, uphill to the colonies of cottages. What Happened to the Baby?
  • So, with another oath he turned and trudged back the way he had come. Times, Sunday Times
  • They turned and trudged back to the car and warmed themselves. Christianity Today
  • As the players trudged off after 90 gladiatorial minutes, there was more drama. Times, Sunday Times
  • I trudged into the depression and fell into a sound sleep as Billie stayed on guard.
  • I got up and we all walked out of the music room and trudged to the front gate in silence.
  • 'I don't care,' she said to herself as she trudged along in silence beside Miss Neale; 'they're horrid to me -- _horrid_. The Rectory Children
  • ‘Anytime,’ I heard him vociferate when I tried to trudge past him.
  • Freestyle in those days was the trudgen, an alternating overarm stroke with a scissors kick.
  • Like a movie reel spooling back on itself the Irish piled back into their wagon, and with a newly elected driver turned her round and trudged back up the slope and out of the valley.
  • Zemya trudged unawares closer and closer to the edge of the jagged path, everywhere being shrouded by mountain clouds.
  • Or they trudged miles to work. The Sun
  • The strokes swum on the back include back stroke or back crawl, elementary backstroke, inverted breaststroke, inverted butterfly, back double trudgen, flutter back finning and feet first swimming.
  • Morley trudged down the beach through the thickening mist and studied the tracks for a long time, before he heard the sound of wood buckling.
  • All with the cheerful smile of women who know they don't have to trudge off to work on Monday morning to pay the bills. The Sun
  • From the trailhead at Bunny Flat, climbers must trudge about six miles to Shasta's summit, gaining more than 7,000 feet over two days.
  • Slowly, he rose and trudged toward the scent of sandalwood and trilia that seeped into his room even before he opened the door. Colors of Chaos
  • We were reluctant to start the long trudge home.
  • Together they trudged away from the compound. Times, Sunday Times
  • Shaerl trudged toward them, hugging a large box.
  • The fisherman trudged to the sea once more, spoke, and the flounder granted the wish.
  • My pace slowed back into its former, strengthless, heavy trudge.
  • A sharp stab of hunger gnawed at Vincent's gut as he trudged along the dunes of sand that rose and fell like waves frozen in time.
  • I couldn't think of a lie quick enough to dissuade Beth so we trudged to the locker together.
  • ‘No more chemo for me,’ he says, managing a smile as we trudge off through the mud and rain.
  • People would hang flags from their porches, the high school band would march, and the Cub Scout troop would trudge along, right behind the block of World War II veterans, who seemed ancient.
  • That made the gruelling trudge back towards base camp all the harder to bear. Times, Sunday Times
  • In addition, she was stiffened from the long trudge, and the sand, to her surprise, was anything but soft. CHAPTER II
  • Shaerl trudged toward them, hugging a large box.
  • The crusaders deployed and made no demonstration as they trudged unmurmuringly over the hills of sand unadorned by a patch of vegetation.
  • Even committed terpsichoreans may find her book a dry, dutiful trudge through the life of America's most electrifying and infuriating 20th-century choreographer.
  • Certainly, school bags are heavy these days and I often feel a pang when I see my willowy 12-year-old daughter shouldering her heavy bag as she trudges off to school.
  • Abandon wait for taxi, hoist bags over shoulder and trudge to site where minivans transport officials and persuasive hangers-on to tournament.
  • We all trudged down to The Hazards, which are a chain of weathered granite domes.
  • The Wimbledon crowd was given a desultory wave by their hero as he trudged away. The Sun
  • My stalking slowed to a defeated trudge and my shoulders drooped.
  • He trudged his way down the street until he came to a shop with a swinging wooden sign hanging that read ‘Farrier’, and showed a horseshoe underneath.
  • That made the gruelling trudge back towards base camp all the harder to bear. Times, Sunday Times
  • And "we the people" -- overtaxed, over-policed, overburdened by big government, underrepresented by those who should speak for us and blissfully ignorant of the prison walls closing in on us -- will continue to trudge along a path of misery. John W. Whitehead: The 2010 Elections: Full of Sound and Fury, and Signifying Nothing
  • Or they trudged miles to work. The Sun
  • I remember also the peripatetic knife grinder and his trundling machine, the muffin man, the pedlar and his wares, the furmity wheat vendor, who trudged along with his welcome cry of Fifty Years of Railway Life in England Scotland and Ireland
  • She merely lowered her head and trudged away, feeling eyes on the back of her head, listening to the sound of creaking wheels slowly diminish behind her. A Plague of Angels
  • She gave a heavy sigh and trudged off toward the front gate of her school.
  • Is it really worth the trudge up to the voting booth?
  • I stripped my bed of the familiar black bedspread and trudged back down the hall and to the stairs, after letting a loud yawn escape my mouth.
  • Walking from and to the car parked a block away was an arduous trudge.
  • As I drove onto the downtown exit ramp, an exhausted black woman trudged towards me, her head down.
  • It is within sight of the main platform of the train station but inaccessible except by car or a long trudge down suburban streets.
  • For now, I trudge on, work hard, and think about all the things I have to get done by Monday without having some kind of conniption fit. Too Much to Do, Not Enough Time
  • My horse trudges bored and disconsolate around the whole property, seeking even a single blade of green grass.
  • He let out a sigh and started his trudge down the hall to the right toward the office.
  • While healthy elephants can trudge long distances in search of water, "weak and sick" animals are unable to "perambulate" and succumb, says forest veterinarian Dr N.S. Manoharan. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
  • Five times he has trudged away with that horrible, sinking feeling of defeat. The Sun
  • He trudged wearily on down the road.
  • We had to trudge up the track back to the station.
  • After the recriminations, the England team could only trudge back home in comprehensive defeat for the second time this year. Times, Sunday Times
  • Even when the lido opens, the cafe often stays shut or displays a sign ‘No food today due to staff shortages’, meaning a long trudge back into town just to buy a sandwich!
  • It would have looked slightly odd to an outsider, a noblewoman all but begging her brother's squire not to make her trudge through the woods after a mysterious cry.
  • Thus graff or grough is compounded of grave and rough; and trudge from tread or trot, and drudge. A Grammar of the English Tongue
  • We had to trudge up the track back to the station.
  • This was the third time in three years they have trudged back south pointless. The Sun
  • Even when the lido opens, the cafe often stays shut or displays a sign ‘No food today due to staff shortages’, meaning a long trudge back into town just to buy a sandwich!
  • He opens his feature on the shoreline of the savage Barents Sea as a group of 30 men trudge up a snow-covered dune, eyebrows laced with hoar frost.
  • A camel, burdened with a heavy load, slowly trudges across the hot desert sand with no relief from the burning sun.
  • We all trudged back to the pub. Times, Sunday Times
  • And then it started to pour down rain, so I trudged back to my car like some wild-eyed prophet, taunted by the laughing kookaburras as I passed them.
  • I trudged out finally, covered in mud and grime, with a few ducks quacking angrily at me.
  • There was a knock at the door so I got up and trudged to the door bitterly and peeped through the small windows.
  • In the stiffly rugged heaviness of the shoes there is the accumulated tenacity of the slow trudge through the far-spreading and ever-uniform furrows of the field swept by a raw wind.
  • We trudged through the snow for a good half hour to make it to the hardware store where we examined all the sleds and finally settled on a long bright orange plastic toboggan.
  • Snow was everywhere, and we trudged through a blizzard to pick up our snowboards.
  • he pulled down the bill of his cap and trudged ahead
  • With play suspended on the outside courts, fans were forced to trudge off home. The Sun
  • Most telesoftware costs less than you'd pay in the shops, and you don't have to trudge out to buy it.
  • Just in case, she kept her pace a fine degree between a weary trudge and a brisk hike.
  • On the more popular routes old carpets and rubber mats eased the ankle-snapping trudge from one ice sheet to the next.
  • It also captured that late night urgency, buzzing from pub to club to cafe, those Important Conversations like a campfire on an empty beach, weaving dreams of the future until the streetlights gave way to the dawn, and then the final trudge home (or sprint home fueled on booze and kebab). Zornhau: The Middle Ages
  • I trudged on, scenting the air every so often to see if anyone was around me and also keeping track of where the border patrollers were.
  • With government funding, Mr. Porshnev launched a Soviet Snowperson Commission that after 1958 trudged through the Pamir Mountains of modern-day Tajikistan and the Caucasus region. Bigfoot Hunters Detect Signs of the Hairy Beast in Siberia
  • What we're engaged in is radically individual: a single - file trudge through treacherous terrain.
  • We had to trudge up the track back to the station.
  • ‘We trudged down today and the children have seen everything,’ said Hannah's mum, Helen Elliott, who had the hood up on her red windcheater.
  • We still trudge off to work in the morning, tacitly accepting that we're stuck with whatever life deals us.
  • The soldiers trudged through the mud.
  • She would trudge home after lessons discouraged and frustrated. Her Late Lunge for Athletic Glory
  • They turned and trudged back to the car and warmed themselves. Christianity Today
  • Connor had managed, at some point in his apathetic trudge across town, to get himself in front of a bar and order several large whiskeys.
  • Shaking our fists both in anger at the gods and to keep warm, we trudge off in the general direction of the car.
  • They looked dispirited as they trudged off for half-time cuppas but they had a rejuvenated look on the restart and took just seven minutes to draw level.
  • We trudged up the hill to the stadium.
  • I trudge through sleet on icy sidewalks to look at equally slippery art shows.
  • With play suspended on the outside courts, fans were forced to trudge off home. The Sun
  • As for me, I trudged myself up to my room, threw down my bag and folder, and collapsed onto a space on my floor.
  • From inside he heard the creaking of floorboards as someone trudged down the stairs.
  • We had to trudge up the track back to the station.
  • Freestyle in those days was the trudgen, an alternating overarm stroke with a scissors kick.
  • The ambulance screamed past lighting my face in alternate colours as I trudged up William Street.
  • We trudged home through the snow.
  • Many of both groups have joined or will join the trudge back to mum and dad when their student days are over. Times, Sunday Times
  • But in Senegal itself, crestfallen fans trudged through quiet streets in the capital after their team's failure to reach the last four.
  • The family watched them as they trudged exhaustedly towards the nearest pulsating camp fire.
  • Police Constable Brown trudged his lonely beat.
  • She merely lowered her head and trudged away, feeling eyes on the back of her head, listening to the sound of creaking wheels slowly diminish behind her. A Plague of Angels
  • The teams trudged off the field and into the locker rooms as the cheerleaders from both teams went to the middle on the field for their half-time show.
  • John Trudgen developed the hand-over-hand stroke, then named the trudgen.

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