trudge
verb (used without object)
to walk, especially laboriously or wearily.
are trudging
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present progressiveof trudge.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Now the clocks have gone back and the evenings are darker, many of us are trudging to work and back in the dark and sometimes our mood is lower as well.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2025
Still, residents and businesses are trudging toward getting tourists — their economic lifeline — back to the shore.
From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2023
Astros Manager Dusty Baker is 72, and he probably should be having a warm glass of milk when the late innings of these postseason games are trudging on.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2021
Film-makers from Sundances past are trudging today – if not running – to the once-maligned television for a living wage.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 17, 2013
But I also know that if I stopped, I’d get trampled by the two hundred pairs of feet that are trudging along behind me, so I only pause for a moment.
From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick
