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Synonyms & Antonyms for trudge
Synonyms: Verb
barge, clump, flog [British], flounder, galumph, lumber, lump, plod, pound, scuff, scuffle, shamble, shuffle, slog, slough, stamp, stomp, stumble, stump, tramp, tromp
Antonyms: Verb
breeze, coast, glide, slide, waltz, whisk
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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: Verb
This besieged and discouraged crew of ordinary men and women trudged into that valley at Christmastime, in 1777. — Richard Brady, National Review, "Valley of the Shadow," 31 Aug. 2019 So Tom had come anyway, more than 5,000 miles from his home in Oracle and 75 years behind his dad, driving back roads and trudging along railroad tracks, in search of something. — Karina Bland, azcentral, "His father wouldn't talk about D-Day. The son had to know the story," 16 June 2019 Greg Randolph trudged 14 miles over four days after stranding his Jeep in a desolate canyon in southern Oregon. — oregonlive.com, "Stranded southern Oregon man, 72, walked 14 miles over 4 days before mountain biker from Portland found him," 25 July 2019 As the Miami Marlins have trudged through another losing season this year, there have been few bright spots for the team to latch onto. — Christian Simmons, sun-sentinel.com, "Cooper, Anderson and Castro each get 3 RBI as Marlins blow out Padres to open home series," 17 July 2019 A year later, the couple is bundling up and trudging through their first full Ohio winter, among the 300 Puerto Rican workers Integrated Staffing Solutions has recruited to the Midwest in the past year and a half. — Erin Ailworth And, WSJ, "In Need of Workers, the Midwest Recruits From Puerto Rico," 14 Feb. 2019 Andrea Previously in my life, my definition of strength was to keep going, to trudge through no matter what. — Nora Whelan, SELF, "Everyday Athletes Talk About What Strength Means to Them," 26 June 2018 Football has more players, covered in armor, fighting in the trenches and trudging across a vast field. — John Branch, New York Times, "Why the N.F.L. and the N.B.A. Are So Far Apart on Social Justice Stances," 22 June 2018 After the echo of the final whistle had evaporated into that heartless night, my boy trudged that long, final walk across the pitch. — David Frese, kansascity, "The last graduation, the last game, the last prom. Parents, are you ready for it? | The Kansas City Star," 27 Apr. 2018Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
Opener Taylor Cole faced the minimum number of batters through two innings, positioning Barria to begin his trudge through the Mariners lineup with the No. 7-9 hitters. — Maria Torres, Los Angeles Times, "Marinersâ Mike Leake flirts with a perfect game in rout over the Angels," 19 July 2019 Three times a week, hundreds of thousands of Americans with end-stage kidney disease trudge to dialysis centers to get the treatment that keeps them alive. — Bloomberg News, oregonlive.com, "Less dialysis, more kidney transplants: Trump overhauls chronic care system," 10 July 2019 The uphill trudge begins where the trail crosses unsigned Forest Road 717 and moves onto the first of several edge-hugging switchbacks. — Mare Czinar, azcentral, "You'll probably have the summit to yourself on this shady summer hike," 7 June 2019 The disappointing duo trudge into one of the coldest bowl games each season with more bad news: uncertainty at QB. — Dan Gelston, The Seattle Times, "Miami, Wisconsin set to battle cold in frigid Pinstripe Bowl," 26 Dec. 2018 And later on, what should have been a 10-minute walk through the village of Ouchi-jukuâa row of thatched huts and igloosâturned into a 30-minute trudge. — Adam H. Graham, CondĂ© Nast Traveler, "Slow Skiing in Japan's Deep North," 11 Oct. 2018 Behind him there are hordes of models with that disturbing heavy-heeled trudge. — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, "This Casting Directorâs Zombie Walk Just Won New York Fashion Week," 14 Sep. 2018 Partly to blame is the movie March of The Penguins, which proposed that the penguinsâ annual trudge across the ice flows is somehow an epic love story. — National Geographic, "What You Think You Know About Animals? Probably Not True," 26 May 2018 Ordinary sounds are jacked up to a paranoid pitch; when Joe takes a jelly bean and squeezes it, there is a granular crunch, and his trudge along a dusty track is as resonant as the march of a platoon. — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, "âYou Were Never Really Hereâ and âA Quiet Placeâ," 30 Mar. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'trudge.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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