Example Sentences

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A group of teenage pig hunters who had been trekking through the bush around Marokopa spotted them and filmed the brief encounter on their phones.

From BBC • Sep. 8, 2025

Ms Dingley, who was an experienced hiker, had been trekking solo when she last communicated with her partner from the top of Pic de Sauvegarde at about 16:00 on 22 November.

From BBC • Aug. 15, 2021

And then, after 46 hours of running, the last female runner, Anna Carlsson, who had been trekking through the outdoors near the northern tip of Sweden, had to stop.

From Washington Post • Apr. 7, 2020

A streak of brown on brown cut through the still, frigid morning on the Tibetan Plateau in China’s Szechuan Province, where the American photographer had been trekking in search of deer and sheep.

From National Geographic • Dec. 20, 2017

We were stopped near the same pine forest we had been trekking alongside for hours.

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys