trudged; trudging
: to walk or march steadily and usually laboriously
trudged through deep snow
: to trudge along or over
trudger
noun
Synonyms
Examples of trudge in a Sentence
Verb
I was trudging through the snow.
She trudged up the hill.
Noun
a trudge across the snow
Recent Examples on the Web
Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2024
Our first glimpse of Samet, a tiny speck trudging across a blinding-white landscape, is a typical Ceylan overture: a lone figure dwarfed, spectacularly, by a terrain that reflects his inner desolation.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2024
India flamed out in a thrashing to England and trudged off the Adelaide Oval in embarrassment apparently in desperate need of regeneration.
—Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
For me, that moment came after trudging up Ryan Mountain (34°00′09.25″N, 116°08′09.38″W), a 2.9-mile trail with an elevation gain of 1,069 feet.
—Maggie Downs, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2024
Inside, her nephew, Bohdan, 25, and his friend Artem, also 25, trudged through the yard, chopping firewood.
—Serhiy Morgunov, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2024
Last winter, heavy snow forced technicians to trudge through deep drifts to maintain sensitive equipment, while the domes stayed shut for weeks.
—Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2024
Even as the year comes to an end, some of these legislative efforts continue to trudge their way forward.
—Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 28 Dec. 2023
As the Chiefs poured on to the field — and red and yellow confetti poured from cannons — the 49ers trudged off it, absorbing their second punch-to-the-gut Super Bowl loss to Kansas City in five years.
—Billy Witz, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2024
Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
The songs, previously light and amusing, become thick and grating, and the dances, by Raja Feather Kelly, become trudges.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024
Daddy picks up the larger solar panel and trudges back to his outdoor laboratory.
—Jonah Gercke, SPIN, 15 Mar. 2024
The park is home to the Texas State Bison Herd, which dots the landscape and trudges across 10,000 acres.
—Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 25 Jan. 2024
The music never gets very loud or very soft, fast, or high: The mood is politely mournful, the pace a frequently funereal trudge.
—An Epic Set, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2024
Although Aspen is both an all-year town, as January trudges on, Vogue has compiled our favorite local haunts and buzzy hangouts for the season.
—Elise Taylor, Vogue, 10 Jan. 2024
Our lead, Joe Rance (Callum Turner), trudges to campus from a Hooverville; later, the coach Al Ulbrickson (Joel Edgerton), pokes around his crew’s lockers to count the holes in their shoes.
—Amy Nicholson, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2023
Some homes are cloaked in blue construction tarps, signaling a slow trudge forward, but many more remain in shambles.
—Anumita Kaur, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2023
Verb
And so the war trudged on — thousands of miles away, but passionately waged in L.A.’s hearts and minds.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2024
Our first glimpse of Samet, a tiny speck trudging across a blinding-white landscape, is a typical Ceylan overture: a lone figure dwarfed, spectacularly, by a terrain that reflects his inner desolation.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2024
India flamed out in a thrashing to England and trudged off the Adelaide Oval in embarrassment apparently in desperate need of regeneration.
—Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
For me, that moment came after trudging up Ryan Mountain (34°00′09.25″N, 116°08′09.38″W), a 2.9-mile trail with an elevation gain of 1,069 feet.
—Maggie Downs, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2024
Inside, her nephew, Bohdan, 25, and his friend Artem, also 25, trudged through the yard, chopping firewood.
—Serhiy Morgunov, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2024
Last winter, heavy snow forced technicians to trudge through deep drifts to maintain sensitive equipment, while the domes stayed shut for weeks.
—Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2024
Even as the year comes to an end, some of these legislative efforts continue to trudge their way forward.
—Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 28 Dec. 2023
As the Chiefs poured on to the field — and red and yellow confetti poured from cannons — the 49ers trudged off it, absorbing their second punch-to-the-gut Super Bowl loss to Kansas City in five years.
—Billy Witz, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2024
Noun
Another of Koenig’s lyrical preoccupations—surely not unrelated—is the unstoppable trudge of time.
—Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
The songs, previously light and amusing, become thick and grating, and the dances, by Raja Feather Kelly, become trudges.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024
Daddy picks up the larger solar panel and trudges back to his outdoor laboratory.
—Jonah Gercke, SPIN, 15 Mar. 2024
The park is home to the Texas State Bison Herd, which dots the landscape and trudges across 10,000 acres.
—Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 25 Jan. 2024
The music never gets very loud or very soft, fast, or high: The mood is politely mournful, the pace a frequently funereal trudge.
—An Epic Set, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2024
Although Aspen is both an all-year town, as January trudges on, Vogue has compiled our favorite local haunts and buzzy hangouts for the season.
—Elise Taylor, Vogue, 10 Jan. 2024
Our lead, Joe Rance (Callum Turner), trudges to campus from a Hooverville; later, the coach Al Ulbrickson (Joel Edgerton), pokes around his crew’s lockers to count the holes in their shoes.
—Amy Nicholson, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2023
Some homes are cloaked in blue construction tarps, signaling a slow trudge forward, but many more remain in shambles.
—Anumita Kaur, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2023
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