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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.
trudgeverb (used without object)to walk, especially laboriously or wearily.
Example Sentences
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There will be nights, especially during stretches such as the one the Washington Nationals are trudging through, when a team is just flat.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 9, 2017
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
Drugs and extra manpower are being sent to clinics along the border, while lorries loaded with blankets, jerry cans and tarpaulins are trudging through the mud-clogged roads.
From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2011
However, this year bureaucrats and businessmen are trudging up the shabby staircase once again.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2011
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
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