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

It was the first piece of recovered U.S. soil he had trod; it was an area where fighting had never entirely ceased.

From Time Magazine Archive

Little did the class of 1960 know how long ago fair Harvard had trod those steps!

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