Sentences with phrase «trudging home»

They include very large paintings of wild ponies on Exmoor, galloping polo ponies, the last horse - launched lifeboat being pulled into a boiling sea, heavy working horses pulling felled timber and hard - working farm horses trudging home at the end of the day.

SENIOR ROAD TEST EDITOR NATALIE NEFF: My first thought upon coming out of this car after trudging home through yet another blast of crappy winter weather: «I could live with this car.»

If there's nothing else that stopped me and reminded me of how much time has passed, it was trudging home tonight from work and stepping over a pile of leaves to reach my front steps.

I use to work in a Walmart Tire & Lube Express during college, and still remember trudging home exhausted with oil and grit in every pore.

It struck me, as I watched dozens of ticket holders get turned away from the oversubscribed event, that there was perhaps no better symbol of the speculative mania we've been witnessing in recent weeks than the sight of 70 would - be attendees sadly zip up their rain jackets, reverse course, and trudge home from an event that, not so long ago, would have been attended by few people.

Growing up, my babysitter would feed me cinnamon sugar toast on cold winter afternoons, after I had trudged home from school in the snow.

After a long day at the Little Shop of Melancholy he trudges home to be greeted by his hypochondriac, alcoholic mother.

Like all debt products, it's very easy to go down that road but a difficult trudge home.

The black man and child gathered their tools and trudged home.

Chinese railway builders look up from their labors, workers trudge home in the slightly menacing twilight of Pyongyang, a new day or a new season fills the horizon.

As the family lawyer trudges home after many hours of work his heart is slightly lighter because the day involved a sensible negotiated settlement of a complex case.

Not exact matches

Remote work isn't without its drawbacks, such as the tendency for people to work too much from home, while at the same time getting less exercise than if they had to trudge into an office.

Awakens is a film of prodigals; over the course of the film some return home, some start that long trudge back to open arms while others turn their back on that welcoming embrace.

We're all desperate for reconciliation — sometimes we're walking home, other times we're waiting at the door, desperate to see someone else trudge over the top of the hill.

But while I was trudging past the almost - deserted Christmas - tree store in the Catholic school parking lot, a salesman suddenly leaned over the fence to ask if I wanted a wr ¥ ath to take home.

Still, it was a perfect moment until the phone incident and I had a good laugh to myself as I trudged on through the icy sidewalks heading home.

I trudged around in comfy pajamas, and Chris carted all of the food home.

Both of my children were breastfed, the first one, miserably, hidden away in public toilets or upstairs rooms («we set this one aside for you»), or on the sofa at home, following a long trudge back from town («no, I can't feed you now, I know you're hungry, I hear your cries, but someone might see»).

Under the gray, noxious air, trusting residents returned to their homes in Lower Manhattan, unsuspecting children returned to their schools, and hundreds of thousands of downtown workers trudged to their desks.

It's almost a miracle, given the enormity of her pregnant belly, that Marlo (Charlize Theron) even manages to trudge down the stairs of her home in the opening shot of Jason Reitman's Tully.

People trudge to their work or homes, there is very little joy, and advertisements for home suicide kits are more prominent than those for consumer items.

After years in development limbo, trudging between different studio homes and finding then losing filmmakers and cast members, thriller Triple Frontier is finally getting ready to shoot.

We trudge along the same old route, often without noticing any variety or having any sense of leisure, and in too much of a hurry to get back home again.

However, the defeated player doesn't have their mechs destroyed, rather their mechs, workers and avatar are all sent back to their home base, making the horrible trudge of shame.

If, for example, you are configuring a computer on your own home network for easy remote access, it would be foolish to toggle «Connect and view my screen» to «After confirmation», because you'd have to trudge all the way down to the basement server to manually confirm remote access.

In Active phones past, it was always jarring to use an Active smartphone with its 3 physical buttons after using the physical home button / capacitive buttons of Samsung's S and Note phones, but the S7 Active's physical keys are just «clicky,» pleasant to use, and no longer make you feel as if your fingers are «trudging through mud» to use them.

In addition to this there's no way to go to the app info page from the home screen on LG's new launcher, there's just simply not an option, meaning you'll need to trudge through more menus to get to apps, find the app in a list and then get to its settings to restrict notifications, manage permissions or storage, etc..

After all, this is where most of the dirty clothing originates, so why should home owners trudge down to the basement with their hampers?

During a cold winter, particularly in areas that receive snow and wind, people don't want to trudge outside in search of a home.