tread
verb (used without object)
to set down the foot or feet in walking; step; walk.
had trod
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past perfectof tread.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The soldiers who had trod this ground decades before me surely wouldn’t have taken my situation too seriously.
From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2011
Instead of following Mrs. Nixon on her dutiful sightseeing, as the opera does, I spent hours exploring the terrain that only a few renegade Americans had trod for a quarter-century.
From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2011
The advance on Smolensk delights him; only two years ago he had trod this very road in retreat.
From Time Magazine Archive
All along it was to be the first time that a woman contender for national office had trod on the dueling ground of televised debate.
From Time Magazine Archive
I cannot describe with what feelings I actually pressed my hands against the earth where the great Prophets had trod four thousand years before.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
