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How to use trudge in a sentence

29 example sentences · noun, verb

Trudge means a tramp, i.e. a long and tiring walk. Example: “Living at the top of an elevatorless building meant trudging up twelve flights of stairs every day.”

Examples of trudge by meaning

nounA tramp, i.e. a long and tiring walk.

  • The morning after the landslip, with rain still pouring down, it was an unpleasant trudge through deep mud to get there.2020 September 9, Paul Clifton, “Heavy rainfall causes landslip in Hampshire: At the scene...”, in Rail, page 10

More sentences with trudge

  • Living at the top of an elevatorless building meant trudging up twelve flights of stairs every day.From the entry elevatorless
  • The tired mule flopped its ears forward and trudged on.From the entry flop
  • He fell flat on his back before Sinner trudged around the net for a warm, heartfelt embrace.2025 June 8, Jonathan Jurejko, “Alcaraz stuns Sinner in extraordinary French Open final”, in BBC. From the entry heartfelt
  • So, some very deflated people trudged back into the hotel bar to drown their sorrows.2021, Jordan Wylie, The Power of the Paddle. From the entry deflated
  • He trudges on and finds another, but she is killed too.2016, Aisling Irwin, Furry aliens on Europe’s hit list: New Scientist, number 3063, page 8. From the entry raccoon dog
  • Here's the section women have been patiently waiting for after trudging through a swamp of quasisexist discussion.2015, Al Bruno, Crossed Out: Our Lives without Christ. From the entry quasisexist
  • Disillusioned soldiers trudged into Rome, skeeving out the more refined nobles and priests with their presence.2012, Sara D'Emic, William James Vinson, Vinson's Christmas and Other Oddities, →ISBN. From the entry skeeve out
  • Anyways, this prannet goes in, trudges all the way up three flights of pokertunity.2012 October 16, Will Self, The Sweet Smell of Psychosis: A Novella, Grove/Atlantic, Inc., →ISBN. From the entry prannet
  • Since then the Tom Swifty has trudged on, not exactly swiftly but with an impressive staying power.2008, Ben Yagoda, When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It, Crown, →ISBN, page 50. From the entry Tom Swifty
  • In "scorchio" heat, I trudge along the waterfront for a last visit with the crew.2002, Shirley Hewett, The People's Boat: HMCS Oriole : Ship of a Thousand Dreams, Heritage House, →ISBN, page 159. From the entry scorchio
  • One brilliant thing about Wreckers is that you don't spend most of your time trudging around corridors.1991, "Wreckers" (video game review) in Crash (issue 88, page 42). From the entry zipway
  • But suddenly you remember when a big eland goes trudging off from beside the road.1966, Bruce Brown, director, The Endless Summer. From the entry eland
  • I loved their shouts of welcome as I trudged across the fields carrying the heavy jug.1964, Long Island Forum, volumes 27-29, page 169. From the entry tarten
  • It has taken me to some spectacular spots (and trudging along a few A-roads, too, but that is mainly my incompetence).2023 August 31, Emma Beddington, “Fish doorbells! Historic sandwiches! 50 of the weirdest, most wonderful corners of the web – picked by…. From the entry A-road
  • From that place, he saw the buffalo trudging out of the horizon on one side of the world.2020, Louise Erdrich, The Night Watchman, Corsair (2021), page 267. From the entry coteau
  • The dolphin is struggling, trudging as if it were a burro trying to go up a rocky incline—a sea donkey.2010, T. M. Shine, Nothing Happens Until It Happens to You, page 57. From the entry sea donkey
  • Clad in a coldsuit Jael trudged through a thin layer of CO₂ snow towards the gates of the Arena.2008, Neal Asher, “Alien Archaeology”, in The Gabble and Other Stories, London: Tor, →ISBN, page 144. From the entry snow
  • So we shoulder our daypacks and trudge warily along the muddy rivercourse towards the tumbling snarl of the Kapichira Falls.2008, Jacques Marais, “Trekking, Hiking and Backpacking: Boot Camp”, in Great African Adventures: A Guide to the Mother Continent’s…. From the entry rivercourse
  • She would pick up the waiting empty can from a doorstep, fill it from her large can, then trudge on to the next house.2005, Joanne S. Pearce, “Mykonos and Delos, Whitewashed Sugar Cubes”, in Greece: Journey to Joy […], Seattle, Wash.: Classic Day…. From the entry milklady
  • "Thank you the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetic Corporation," said Marvin and trudged desolately up the gleaming curved corridor that stretched out before them.1979, Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Chapter 11. From the entry Marvin
  • After days of rain and mud, blocked exits and postponed parties, the last of Burning Man’s crowds trudged out of the Nevada desert on Wednesday morning.2023 September 6, Finn-Olaf Jones, Jack Healy, “Burning Man’s Muddy Aftermath: A Desert Full of ‘Moop’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry moop
  • He left the barn and trudged up to the house, made his way through a careless strewage of cordwood on the front porch, and pounded on the door.2014, James Kunstler, A History of the Future. From the entry strewage
  • Experiencing the visit of my monthly friend at work, I trudged out into the kiln today, across the car park to the little shop in search of some tampons.2011, Becky Wicks, Burqalicious: The Dubai Diaries: A True Story of Sun, Sand, Sex and Secrecy, Skyhorse Publishing, published 2012…. From the entry monthly friend
  • As I was trudging blindly through hemlocky underbrush, hoping to find the deer and go home in time to still be a good host, I heard it.2003 December 6, Isaac Kimball, “A hunter’s luck, albeit delayed: Quest for partridge fulfilled”, in Bangor Daily News, volume 115, number…. From the entry hemlocky
  • The overall mood of this volume is one of melancholy and loss, weary resignation to one's lot—trudging round and round on the rusty hamster wheel of life.2002 June 28, Michiko Kakutani, “Books of the Times”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 07 Dec 2019, retrieved 23 Sep…. From the entry rusty
  • A few hours ago, before the weary day-shift trudged into work (weary this day especially, following last night’s excess and post-catastatic exhaustion), she intercepted Jimmy’s legs.1999, Colson Whitehead, The Intuitionist, Fleet (2017), page 163. From the entry catastatic
  • Trudge was about to take her innocent offspring to the House of Commons, and those out of hat-pin range murmured, "Shime," "Give the kids a chawnce."1914, Various, Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 11, 1914. From the entry chawnce
  • Felicity got all the gratitude, although the Story Girl had originated the idea and seeded the raisins and beaten the eggs, while Cecily had trudged all the way to Mrs.1911, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 31, in The Story Girl. From the entry way of the world

Meaning of trudge

  1. noun A tramp, i.e. a long and tiring walk.
  2. verb To walk wearily with heavy, slow steps.
  3. verb To trudge along or over a route etc.

Full definition of trudge

Questions about trudge in a sentence

How do you use trudge in a sentence?
Trudge is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Living at the top of an elevatorless building meant trudging up twelve flights of stairs every day.”
What is a short sentence with trudge?
“The tired mule flopped its ears forward and trudged on.”
What does trudge mean?
Trudge means a tramp, i.e. a long and tiring walk.

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