TRUDGE in a Sentence

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But reluctantly she replaced her shoes and stockings and trudged down the bank, spongy with moss, under the shady trees.

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 Meanings and Examples of TRUDGE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
trudge
 v.  walk or march with labor; jog along; move wearily
Classic Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  It was a slow trudge home through the heavy fields, and when the two men entered the kitchen Mattie was lifting the coffee from the stove and Zeena was already at the table.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
2  He fancied that she nodded her comprehension; and with that scant solace he had to trudge off through the rain.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
3  And when he got home perhaps he would have to trudge several blocks, and come staggering back through the snowdrifts with a bag of coal upon his shoulder.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
4  Well, we can't have it, so don't let us grumble but shoulder our bundles and trudge along as cheerfully as Marmee does.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FOUR
5  You shall trudge away, and do your errands in the rain, and if you catch your death and ruin your bonnet, it's no more than you deserve.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-SIX
6  My aunt, the best and most cheerful of nurses, would trudge after us, a moving mass of shawls and pillows.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 48. DOMESTIC
7  He hardly opened his lips during that weary trudge across the moor, nor would he enter the school when he reached it, but went on to Mackleton Station, whence he could send some telegrams.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
8  But reluctantly she replaced her shoes and stockings and trudged down the bank, spongy with moss, under the shady trees.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
9  She crossed it cautiously and trudged uphill the hot half- mile to Twelve Oaks.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
10  The brandy glow faded as she trudged along.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
11  They talked more trustingly, more personally, as they trudged on.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
12  She watched her conquering man tuck them into his inside pocket, and trudged with him back to the buggy.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
13  Like a very small, very lonely girl she trudged up-stairs, slow step by step, her feet dragging, her hand on the rail.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
14  She trudged in healthy weariness.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
15  In the prairie heat she trudged along unchanging ways, talked about nothing to tepid people, and reflected that she might never escape from them.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
Example Sentence:
1  The old men trudge home through the deep snow.
2  We had to trudge up the track back to the station.
3  Shaerl trudged toward them, hugging a large box.
4  He trudged wearily on down the road.