That, sometimes, you have to trudge through without cutting corners or stopping.
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They trudge back to the baseline, gnawing on thigh-bones and sucking intestines.
From the guardian.co.uk
He definitely threw me off cliffs and made me trudge through frigid, icy waters.
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Despite the setbacks we continued to trudge forward with our real food mission.
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Only in the wee hours of the morning did we hail a cab and trudge to our rooms.
From the charlotteobserver.com
For us, the inauguration ended that day with a freezing trudge back to the car.
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Let's trudge on while repelling boarders and easing out freeriders and saboteurs.
From the economist.com
It felt a bit like a trudge through the events without any overarching structure.
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Then they trudge down the road to support other villages in similar campaigns.
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A long difficult walk
Slog: walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud; "Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone"
(trudger) someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner
Trudge is the second EP released by the American Post-Punk band Savage Republic, released in 1985 through PIAS Recordings. It was has been re-issued accompanied by Ceremonial since 1990.
A tramp, i.e. a long and tiring walk; To walk wearily with heavy, slow steps; To trudge along or over a route etc
(trudged) if you walked slowly as though your feet were stuck in mud, you trudged.
(Trudging) A laborious or tiring walk; tramp. (Trudge).
To walk slowly and heavily, as though with great effort