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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His broad clear brow in sunlight glow'd; On burnished hooves his war-horse trode; From underneath his helmet flow'd His coal-black curls as on he rode, As he rode down to Camelot.
From The Ontario High School Reader by Marty, A.E.
Never, never shall I forget the moment that my feet first trode upon the deck of a British frigate!
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume I Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative by Various
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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