Stomp all over

Usage examples of trod.

Ghostly footfalls trod the old Beld mansion, and bloodshed and murder followed in their wake!

I trod water and organized the nylon cord, then struck out for the edge of the cenote, paying out the cord behind me, until I grasped a tree root at water-level.

The sly puss went out quickly enough, but I was as sharp as she, and trod on the tail of her dress so that she could not shut the door after her.

Dew lay heavy on the grass, as the dainty heels of my captresses testified, yet they trod lightly upon daisies wide-open to the blue sky, while daffadowndillies stooped in a silence broken only by their laughter.

Once Rollo, William of Normandy, the Hohenstaufen, Coeur de Lion, de Bouillon, the Teutonic Knights, Rainald van Dassel, Gustav Adolf, Wallenstein, Alba, Cromwell, Richelieu, Turenne, de Saxe, Frederick the Great, Pitt, Napoleon, Bismarck, trod this soil.

In its wake the stink of masticated sulfur and burning brimstone corrupted the air, and bootprints fused the sand where they had trod into dungy glass.

The road wound uphill, giving a magnificent view of the coast in the distance, and presently he parked the car and trod up a narrow path to the estalagem, and since it was still warm in the afternoon sun, they had tea on its terrace.

Saw you not sister what was in the house, what great store of jewels, what glittering robes, what Gemmes, what gold we trod on?

If people trod upon him accidentally, which they often did, Grumps uttered a solitary heart-rending yell proportioned in intensity to the excruciating nature of the torture he endured, then instantly resumed his position and his fascinated stare.

Now their bare, dirty feet trod the mosaic floor where Hest himself had once walked.

From the edge of the rich, flowery fields on which I trod to the midway sides of the snowy Olympus, the ground could only here and there show an abrupt crag, or a high straggling ridge that up-shouldered itself from out of the wilderness of myrtles, and of the thousand bright-leaved shrubs that twined their arms together in lovesome tangles.

Did the holy man lustrate this chamber, for wherever Lovell trod Sathanas walked in his tracks?

It was mixed with black grit and people trod in it with their shoes on, dogs peed and did their dirt into it.

It was the second man, Raff Darnley, who would eventually tread where no human being had previously trod.

Thus refreshed, they set out once more after the leader who wandered aimlessly beneath the shade of the tall jungle trees amidst the gorgeous tropic blooms and gay, songless birds-- and of the twelve only the leader saw the beauties that surrounded them or felt the strange, mysterious influence of the untracked world they trod.