trudge
verb (used without object)
to walk, especially laboriously or wearily.
had been trudging
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past perfect progressiveof trudge.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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For four hours, she and her 11-year-old daughter had been trudging through plowed fields leading to Russia’s border, trying to escape the country.
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2023
They had been trudging through knee- to waist-deep snow for 11 hours in whiteout conditions, and two had to be rushed to a hospital.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2022
Green leaves peek from amid the once-barren branches, and everyone seems to have ditched the spiritual snow shoes in which they had been trudging.
From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2011
That morning he had been trudging a dusty road south of the city covering James Meredith's march into Mississippi, but at 1:30 he had returned to the unmanned office.
From Time Magazine Archive
For those five months he had been trudging about Moscow looking for work, and it was only on that day that he had brought himself to go into the street to beg for alms.
From The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories by Constance Garnett
