had trod
- past perfect of tread.
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
In 1933 a disheartened young actor who had pounded Manhattan's pavements far oftener than he had trod its boards saw some kids swapping candy for marbles, and got an idea.
From Time Magazine Archive
That was not the first time Bush had trod carefully to avoid a tone of Christian triumphalism.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then I had goose bumps all over like somebody had trod on my grave.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
