Loose straws lie across the footpath, trodden flat by passing feet; straws have wandered across the road and lodged on the mound, and others have roamed still farther round the corner.
The presence even of such simple flowers, of such well-known birds, distinguishes the solitary from the trodden beach.
The trodden earth round where the ricks stood seems favourable to their early appearance; the first poppy blooms here, though its colour is paler than those which come afterwards in the fields.
The distance we had trodden in the wrong path, while led on by hope and anticipation, now seemed to double in length, as with painful steps we toiled on to reach the right road.
Freshness of hill-swards, wind and trodden ling, I should have known that Goneril stands here.
Two, or at most three, steps more, and I should have trodden upon it and received the fatal bite.
I thought he must be some drunken peasant, and, congratulating myself that my horse had not trodden on his body, I stooped to help him to get up.
The Gauls had trodden footpaths through the forests and over the marshes, and of these, the two most trodden on the northern bank started from near the end of their only bridge, now replaced by Pont Notre-Dame.
One might be sure of finding a case made of peau de chagrin here and be equally sure that Balzac had trodden this pavement before you.
These eternally wandering buffaloes, however, appeared to avoid the sterile mountains, and though here and there a lightly trodden path entered the forest, it was not open enough to be followed by a horseman.
At length I found one, which had been probably trodden for centuries by millions of buffaloes.
The road was so steep and fatiguing that I dismounted; still, I seemed to be on a path at times trodden by buffaloes, which was continued when I reached the top, where a wide tableland covered with rich vegetation was expanded before me.
We could not have found a finer road through these hills: broad and trodden smooth, it wound along the crags, so that we were often able to advance at a quick amble.
We reached the opposite side without any difficulty, and followed a deep-trodden buffalo path into the forest; which runs with a breadth of several miles along the river.
Horses, mailed knights, vassals are mixed together in wild confusion; banners are waving and lances flashing amid the dust and smoke, while the wounded and dying are trodden under foot in darkness and blood.
Marked ye not The trodden throne restored--the Saxon line[107] Of England's monarchs bursting through the gloom?
We noticed in a great many places narrow and well-trodden paths by which they had come down to the river, and where they had slid on the steep and clayey bank.
Ere evening to be trodden like the grass Which now beneath them, but above shall grow, In its next verdure, when this fiery mass Of living valor rolling on the foe, And burning with high hope, shall moulder cold and low.
Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed; Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!
At length the mangled mass is buried and trodden down beneath a tumulus of earth, and all is still.
The open space in front of the soldiers was overhung with smoke, which slowly dissolved away, and revealed eleven New Englanders stretched along the trodden snow of their native town.
We could not possibly have lost the way, because our crawling column had left a swath behind it of trampled grass and trodden crossing-places where the track wound and rewound in a game of hide-and-seek with tinkling streams.
Oh ye, who tread the trodden path And keep the narrow law In famished faith that Judgment Day Shall blast your sluggard mists away And show what Moses saw!
I took a few steps through mud, but a little farther walked on a soft freshly trodden path.
It was a grey streak well trodden down and covered with dust, like all roads.
She has walked on fiery ploughshares since then; she has trodden the furnace, and her beautiful bare feet are seared since they trod the cool vintage with me on the slopes above the Taravo.
How much dearer you, who have trodden the hot plough-shares and come to me through the fires!
The rapid recivilization of northern Africa, leading as it does to the development of a railway system in that region, promises to displace this creature from his most trodden ways.
In this wonderful living world man has trodden ruthlessly, for the reason that he has no sense as to the dignity of the field.
Throughout the South it was believed that the people of Maryland were down-trodden and oppressed, that the soldiers of President Lincoln prevented them from expressing their sympathy with the rebellion.
The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
Thou hast trodden down all them that depart from thy statutes: for they imagine but deceit.
Not worth a rush became a common comparison for anything worthless; the rush being of so little value as to be trodden under foot.
The testimony of God has always been rejected, and his people trodden under foot.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trodden" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: even; flat; flush; horizontal; level; plain; plane; smooth; squashed; tabloid; tabular
