Example Sentences

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Some of those hominins may have trod the same ground as Lucy’s species.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 3, 2024

I've tried to be a good representative and a good guest, following in the footsteps of Benjamin Franklin and Julia Child and generations of Americans who have trod gently in Paris without unfortunate hats.

From Salon • Feb. 11, 2022

Every walk, urban or rural, follows in the footsteps of those who have trod these paths before.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2020

Many footsteps, though, have trod the winding stairs and passageways of Sir John Soanes’s London home, which the neoclassical architect stuffed with paintings, sculpture and every kind of bric-a-brac.

From Washington Post • Apr. 1, 2020

You may not find young Hazel’s logic persuasive, but I have trod through this vale of tears longer than you, and from where I’m sitting, she’s not the lunatic.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green