Verb I was trudging through the snow. She trudged up the hill. Noun a trudge across the snow
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Verb
The custodians trudge out to soak up the water with buckets and mops. Connor Sanders, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Sep. 2022 Surveyors began to trudge through, sinking to their chests in the soft soils, assessing the prospects of this land that was barely land. Boyce Upholt, Wired, 23 July 2022 The only discordant note, the only sign of caution, came when Woods had to trudge uphill — and golfers have to do a lot of that at Augusta National. Christine Brennan, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2022 But while dividends just trudge along, buybacks rise, boosting what would otherwise be falling yields for the two together. Shawn Tully, Fortune, 6 Aug. 2022 One wintry day in 1979, for a reason that Butler-Foster has long forgotten, the pair had to trudge through the snow to their sister’s grandmother’s house. La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 29 July 2022 Adam joins his father for a two-week leg of the journey; the men trudge along the highway, camp in the woods, seeing one another as individuals. Jay Bennett, Outside Online, 15 May 2015 Neil trudge around was almost as uncomfortable as listening to him try to sing. Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2022 The Japanese government's decision to trudge forward with the Olympics was not a popular one at home. Aditi Sangal, CNN, 26 July 2021
Noun
Four failed rainy seasons have plunged the region into its worst drought in more than four decades, prompting roughly a million people in Somalia to leave their homes and trudge through the arid countryside in search for food and aid. Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2022 Pulled by manager Aaron Boone with the Yankees ahead 13-2 in the seventh inning, Weissert made the exceedingly long trudge from the mound to the dugout at the Coliseum. Janie Mccauley, ajc, 26 Aug. 2022 The postpandemic recovery has been an uphill trudge for art house theaters and smaller chains. Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2022 Police had sealed off the pedestrian pass with barricades; people could move through only a narrow corridor, in a slow, steady trudge. Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2022 One year in and Biden has had to deal with almost unprecedented catastrophe: a global pandemic, a country divided over vaccine and mask mandates, economic decline and the slow trudge back to fiscal and functioning normalcy. Kate Bennett, CNN, 10 Mar. 2022 Write into this moment and find the ending, which will include the long trudge back up the hill and entering into a kitchen—warm, with the window steamed, the smell of tuna casserole—as if entering another world. David Means, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2021 The slow trudge toward self-improvement might also be one reason to not rush into nabbing a booster shot. Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2021 And officers compete savagely for parking passes to shorten the trudge through Langley's Disneyland-style parking lot. David Mccloskey, CNN, 11 Oct. 2021 See More