Verb (used without object) : to trudge up a long flight of steps.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used with object) : He trudged the deserted road for hours.    From Dictionary.com. 

Apparently "he trudged from the field to rapturous applause".    From Wordnik.com.  [After Years Of Waiting ....] Reference

N the homeward journey Tony again trudged behind while the officers held their post at Constance's side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jerry Junior] Reference

Brian trudged downstairs and into the living room.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plinktonians] Reference

He trudged along, his shoes making a squelching noise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Once There Was A Man] Reference

I had trudged too far on along the lakeshore for that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Country diary: Lake District] Reference

"How's the knee?" someone asked as Haynesworth trudged past.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sally Jenkins: Coach Mike Shanahan is testing Albert Haynesworth's loyalty more than his fitness] Reference

 With something akin to surrender, I trudged back to the house.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unspoken Bonds] Reference

He'd trudged to an auto parts factory scheduled to close down soon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will There Be Cake?] Reference

Squaring his shoulders and wincing in pain, he trudged in their wake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who's There?] Reference

She always looked so very tired as she trudged her wares at 7: 25 am.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cheap Date] Reference

At the War Memorial, Daley trudged out to greet the rain-soaked crowd.    From Wordnik.com.  [What A Long, Strange Trip] Reference

I abdicated and trudged through my daily routine as her belly swelled.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mouths of Babes] Reference

As we trudged on through the sand together he kept muttering to himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference

The boys were in high spirits and joked and laughed as they trudged along.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs] Reference

Her own car she left beside it, and trudged the remaining distance on foot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncanny Tales] Reference

As losses mounted in 2008, Mason trudged to With's house to lay off his friend.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meet The Fastest Growing Company Ever] Reference

"Your sister seems much interested in motoring," remarked Ed as they trudged along.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Motor Girls] Reference

As I trudged back down the slope to wait for her to return, the mountain moaned again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neophyte and Paradox] Reference

But his companions seemed not to mind their discomfort, and he trudged along with them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hero of Hill House] Reference

All this traveling weighed on me as we trudged through the town -- wet, hungry and tired.    From Wordnik.com.  [Domesticity Never Looked So Exciting] Reference

He trudged on over hill and through the woods, as though his frame might be made of steel.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Trapper Jim in the North Woods] Reference

Since last year the two have trudged from Paris to Bonn, negotiating, often without success.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Behind Rupert's Roll] Reference

The murderous brutes trudged off to go back to work, leaving what was left of my neighbor to rot.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saved Man] Reference

Shadrack grunted his assent, and they trudged along the road, looking for an opening to the left.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom of the Raiders] Reference

“I feel a little overdressed,” I said from behind the veil as I trudged through his front yard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behind the (Beekeeper's) Veil] Reference

Beyond the doctor's abode the houses were far apart -- farther and farther apart as she trudged on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret] Reference

Giants coach Tom Coughlin just shook his head in frustration while Eli dejectedly trudged to the sideline.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manning Bowl: Peyton Routs Eli As Colts Top Giants 38-14] Reference

It was difficult to find the way back now in the darkness, but the two lonely, frightened girls trudged on.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Motor Girls on Cedar Lake Or the Hermit of Fern Island] Reference

European Pressphoto Agency A tribesman trudged along a road on the outskirts of Guwahati, India, on Tuesday.    From Wordnik.com.  [India This Week] Reference

"But if you want back your doublet, the road to the forest lies at the end of this lane;" and he trudged away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Granny's Wonderful Chair] Reference

Where I went, whether I trudged along the high road or tramped across country, I have not to-day the slightest idea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Motor Pirate] Reference

As they trudged at Jerry's heels he had explained to them, before entering the woods, the mode of operation to be carried out.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys] Reference

I trudged around school in a gothic stupor and exchanged hardly a word with Jeffrey, sullen and deft at my side in physiology lab.    From Wordnik.com.  [LIGHT FINGERS] Reference

Beyond the city gates, where the palm trees grew and the camels trudged lazily toward the distant desert, he was suddenly accosted by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends] Reference

So the boy trudged through the three years, at the end of them having been trusted far more than is usually the case with errand boys.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference

So when he trudged out on to the mountain-side, he was not sad and alone, but glad in the knowledge that his unseen Friend was with him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of the Saints by Candle-Light] Reference

Back and forth in the puncheon-floored kitchen trudged old Dilsey Rust's heavy-shod foot, carrying her upon the appointed tasks of the day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference