trudge

Object

• mile: Young James often had to trudge many miles to play at these dances.
• street: Once I trudged those streets every day in the snow.
• round: The miserable faces trudging round the city center make my lunch break the most depressing hour of the day.
• home: Trudging home, Fran Hunter's eye is drawn to a vivid splash of color on the white ground, ravens circling above.

Preposition: through

• mud: As we splashed through puddles and trudged through mud, I struck up a conversation, having clocked the Clash badge on her coat.
• snow: I would do anything to be trudging through that snow around the boating lake.
• rain: So despite seeing such a brilliant game we were slightly deflated as we trudged through the rain back to the coach.

Modifying Another Word

• wearily: Along the promenade, in parties of fifty, the remnants of practically all the last regiments were wearily trudging along.
• slowly: Sure enough a solitary figure was spotted slowly trudging up the hill with his laden pony.
• back: Trudging back to the pits, he flagged down a van for a lift.
• long: Pros: No long trudge to or from the car-park or seeking a space.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• along: IT managers tend to trudge along without ever looking at their progress.
• off: Still in sight of the group of people who had witnessed my gob smack we trudged off back the way we had come.
• around: After trudging around for an hour I said ' kin hell, my ' kin feet are hurting.
• up: We then trudged up across the ridge, steering a fairly wide course around many snow cornices which we met in our path.
• down: Imagine him kissing his son goodbye and trudging down to the harbor.

Followed by a transitive particle

• around: My feet had had enough, and I just couldn't face trudging around any more.
• down: Trudging down the staircase, I hear Leeds cheer a bit.
• off: England's players trudged off the field dejectedly, with the crowd in no doubt who they wanted to see introduced.

Particle object:

• hill: Not once did I trudge up the hill from the tube station in the biting wind.