trode
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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Seven months later, the result was the same for Namajunas, even if the path she and Weili trode was unfamiliar.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 6, 2021
Three wire-service reporters* trode up the gangplank of the destroyer Lang; the destroyer Jouett stood by.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Home from the Stevn King Byrgye rode; Up to him Marsk Stig’s daughters trode.
From Marsk Stig's Daughters and other Songs and Ballads by Borrow, George Henry
Sir John Cope trode the north right far, Yet ne'er a rebel he cam naur, Until he landed at Dunbar, Right early in the morning.
From The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.) by Thomson, James Pringle
The sands on which we trode were burning, nevertheless several of us walked on these scorching coals without shoes; and the females had nothing but their hair for a cap.
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