verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
along
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They trudged along the Overclyst road for perhaps half a mile, and then turned down a lane on the left.
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Windows repeat themselves in a monotonous rhythm that is continued by the people trudging along .
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He trudges along there on a Sunday, in hat, tie, dark suit.
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The other nomes trudged along in weary silence.
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His tailpiece, most aptly, is Eric Gill's woodcut of an infantryman trudging along his Via Dolorosa.
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He always looked tired and sad as he trudged along the streets.
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Others trudged along in wellingtons, a bulging canvas bag in each hand.
back
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Fighting the wind, she begins the trudge back to ex-banker's bungalow.
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She saw her father trudging back from the pigsty toward the house.
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He could only trudge back into the narrow dark.
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I trudged back upstairs and lay down in the dark.
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Drizzling rain soaked Hodgesaargh as he trudged back to the castle.
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When the sun got red we trudged back together.
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When we were convinced Robert had definitely gone the three of us trudged back up the field.
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I trudged back up to the cabin and reluctantly went to bed.
home
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Henry trudged home through a cold drizzle feeling lonely, let-down, and bitterly disappointed.
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Naked, dark with misery, the youth trudged home .
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Corbett relaxed, the thoroughfare was busy as carts, traders and farmers trudged home .
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We trudged home at dusk when the city glows in burnished tones of copper and terra cotta.
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I trudged home thinking about my day.
off
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The team were trudging off the pitch, the diamonds on their shirt-sleeves having long since lost their lustre.
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As Riker and I trudged off to find our tents, his voice faded to silence.
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He put down his glass of tea, lifted the rifle to his shoulder and trudged off into the debris.
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At about two o'clock, we picked up our packs and trudged off .
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I trudge off the platform on to the exit gantry and look below.
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He trudged off miserably down jubilee Road with the cold rain dripping from his ear lobes.
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Watching Ferdinand trudge off dejectedly at the end, it was hard not to feel sorry for him.
on
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They trudged on again, their feet following a vein of beaten earth under the thickness of the heather.
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Throughout all of this, Barrington has quietly trudged on because nobody else would.
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Presently he trudged on , alone and wretched.
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She wrenched off her coat while Tod trudged on up, and she came pounding after him.
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He thrust his gloved hands in his pockets and trudged on , his face closed and looking inward.
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He trudged on , stopped at a tavern, and ordered a drink; then another.
up
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He said it aloud to himself as he trudged up the stairs.
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Reva Bergen trudged up the steep walk, burdened with grocery sacks.
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With a little grin, she began trudging up the lane.
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He used the side entrance, on Lafayette, and trudged up the stairs to the second floor.
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I have to admit grudgingly that this is interesting, and I trudge up the path with Tony just behind.
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Then she patted her hair, as though that might make it behave itself and we all trudged up the beach.
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Billy Gorman trudged up the long path to the kitchen garden and the back of the house.
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I trudge up the High Street and pay no attention at first to the sirens.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As she trudged awkwardly up the valley road her feet began to sweat and the toes rubbed painfully against each other.
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Corbett trudged down the beaten, muddy track; the sky was overcast and a light rain began to fall.
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Father Gannon trudged upstairs and flopped down on his hard bed.
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He trudged forward doggedly, blinking the ice from his eyelashes.
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In many places the thaw was complete, and he trudged through mud.
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Reva Bergen trudged up the steep walk, burdened with grocery sacks.
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The fisherman trudged to the sea once more, spoke, and the flounder granted the wish.
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With a little grin, she began trudging up the lane.