trudge
verb (used without object)
to walk, especially laboriously or wearily.
have been trudging
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present perfect progressiveof trudge.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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Just a few years ago, we probably would have been trudging through snow and ice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2022
We have been trudging through deep country, far from any road, and yet there’s hardly been a moment when other people haven’t been in sight or just around the next turn in the trail.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
She tried to speak to him, but seemed overcome with weakness, as though she might have been trudging along until exhausted by want of food and the severe cold.
From The Chums of Scranton High at Ice Hockey by Donald Ferguson
For nineteen hundred years Christians have been trudging along the narrow way.
From The Harp of God by J. F. (Joseph Franklin) Rutherford
