She walked carefully across the garden path, wary of the trodden rose petals beneath her boots.

She carefully scraped the trodden flowers from the pavement and laid them in a small bundle.

After the engine failed, the sailors had trodden water for hours before the rescue ship arrived.

We followed the well-trodden path through the forest to the village.

Her crow-trodden eyes softened as she watched the children play.

The moss-covered stairs, trodden lightly by midnight visitors, made hardly a sound as they descended.

Having trodden the boards since her teens, she finally landed a leading role in the West End production.