tread
verb (used without object)
to set down the foot or feet in walking; step; walk.
had trodden
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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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As hip-hop rose from the streets to the mainstream in the 90s, the rappers and hustlers that broke through had few role models who had trodden that path before them.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2024
For one thing, he had trodden a path he would not wish on anyone and there was no shortage of advice he could impart.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 31, 2020
When the wind forced me to bow my head toward the whitening sidewalk, I fell into an entranced contemplation of the footprints people had trodden into the new snow.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 25, 2018
Demoralised and exhausted, Labour’s leader resigned, bequeathing a record-low 19% poll standing to Emily Thornberry, the former shadow foreign secretary who since early 2017 had trodden a subtly less pro-Brexit path than her boss.
From Economist ● Feb. 2, 2017
It now dawned on Harry, however, that the cup of cold tea on which he had trodden that morning might not have been a booby trap at all.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
