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
Memory and imagination, acting together, bore him to the shores of the Mediterranean; and as he trode the smooth beach, his eye wandered, with transport, to the blue Alpujarras, stretching dimly in the interior.
From Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico by Bird, Robert Montgomery
Before the days of Sir Cornelius Vermuyden it was part of the bottom of the sea, and its inhabitants, as they are described by Camden, trode about on stilts, and lived by snaring waterfowl.
From Contemporary Socialism by Rae, John
She too forsook her country, and the roof So hated; and the vagrant steps pursu'd Her flying brother trode.
From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.
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