How to Use traverse in a Sentence

traverse

1 of 2 verb

• The candidates traversed the state throughout the campaign.
• The river traverses the county.
• The crew traversed through five biomes.
  — Barbie Porter, Twin Cities, 18 Sep. 2025
• All kinds of fires, many of them in areas rarely traversed by humans.
  — River Selby august 25, Literary Hub, 25 Aug. 2025
• The june bug traverses the flagstones lit through the glass door.
  — María Ospina, The Dial, 31 Mar. 2026
• Or children who aren’t yet able to traverse rocky or steep inclines?
  — Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2023
• At least by someone who has spent four months traversing the country.
  — Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2026
• Anyone can join to traverse the trail in a people- or horse-powered way.
  — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026
• Trails have suffered erosion, so take care while traversing them.
  — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 29 Sep. 2025
• This report has a flip side—one that points out the safest states to traverse this summer.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 28 Apr. 2026
• Bear tracks showed where a pair of grizzlies had traversed our island and swum to the far shore.
  — John Todd, Outdoor Life, 9 July 2026
• Hikers can traverse looming sand dunes on 6 miles of trails.
  — Julia Sayers Gokhale, Midwest Living, 17 Apr. 2026
• Guests traverse the 300 steps down the hill to the private beach and beach club.
  — Jim Dobson, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
• Only 10 ships have traversed the strait in the last 24 hours.
  — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2026
• The two cars would then traverse the highway as a single vehicle.
  — Erica Klarreich, Quanta Magazine, 22 Apr. 2026
• As daylight breaks, mouflon sheep or axis deer start to traverse into his range.
  — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 31 July 2023
• That same sense of gravity is felt by golfers traversing the dynamic dunes.
  — Tim Corlett, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
• Habermas wished, in a sense, to vacate the hotel and traverse the abyss outside.
  — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
• Tristyn is then seen traversing the property through mud and water, then goes inside the home.
  — Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 10 June 2026
• These tank-like vehicles can traverse all types of snowy, icy, steep terrain in all weather.
  — Jen Murphy, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Mar. 2023
• Massive semi-trucks traverse the roads every day.
  — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, AZCentral.com, 28 Sep. 2025
• The doubt Gauff has while traversing through the tennis world must have been stratospheric.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2023
• Furthermore, our cosmos might be so vast that light simply hasn’t had enough time to traverse it.
  — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 23 May 2026
• Plenty of helpful signs are posted throughout, and main paths traverse the park.
  — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 May 2026
• It's designed to stably traverse loose, uneven terrain such as sand, mud and snow.
  — Ben Coxworth march 28, New Atlas, 28 Mar. 2026
• From there, the monks will walk together again, traversing six miles to the temple where their trip began.
  — Deepa Bharath, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2026
• From there, the monks will walk together again, traversing six miles to the temple where their trip began.
  — Tiffany Stanley, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2026
• In one scene, the Please Don’t Destroy boys are chased by a hawk while traversing rocks.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 17 Nov. 2023
• The traction devices are fitted over shoes and can be used to traverse moderate snow.
  — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2023
• So much of Janet Planet is about traversing space and being in nature.
  — Liz Appel, Vogue, 8 Sep. 2023

traverse

2 of 2 noun

• Why fell more trees or traverse rivers anew when the work had already been done?
  — Tom Mullaney, Quartz, 29 May 2021
• Some climbers hire guides for the trip, and some of those guides rope up clients for tougher traverses.
  — Craig R. McCoy / Staff Writer, Philly.com, 12 July 2017
• The trail, which can take four to five days to traverse, stretches just over 27 miles.
  — Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 22 June 2021
• The painting shows one such traverse, the bargees poling the barge across the river.
  — Literary Hub, 12 May 2026
• Do traverse rods still use the same cord and pully system to move clips or pins across a track to open and close the panels?
  — Catherine Gaugh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 May 2022
• That’s key on a rocky planet like Mars because much of its surface is too rough for a rover to traverse.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 5 Apr. 2021
• Shackleton and his men were to attempt the first full traverse of the frozen continent in the south.
  — Kraig Becker, Popular Mechanics, 20 June 2017
• People have tried to climb Everest and Lhotse in a single push across that traverse.
  — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 6 Dec. 2022
• For three years in a row, researchers embarked on a two-week traverse of Antarctica.
  — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
• Lines stretching along sidewalks, across parking lots and down streets took days to traverse, with folks there having to camp out overnight.
  — al, 26 July 2022
• Their up-and-down trajectory traverses space for just a few minutes.
  — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 29 June 2023
• In total, 13 climbers have died in falls along that traverse, the NPS said.
  — Paradise Afshar, CNN, 7 May 2022
• Today the primary meanings of traverse align with the spanning side.
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Dec. 2021
• The locals don’t stand for lollygagging on the single-file traverse.
  — Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 6 Jan. 2020
• Competitors navigated their way through mud pits, over a traverse wall and across a balance beam.
  — Daniel I. Dorfman, chicagotribune.com, 16 Sep. 2019
• It’s situated in a hilly area accessed by steep, windy roads that traverse ravines that drop off hundreds of yards on either side.
  — Bloomberg.com, 25 Nov. 2020
• Both men completed the traverse alone, off trail and unsupported.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2022
• So, which Class 4A section looks like the most treacherous to traverse?
  — Jim Paulsen, Star Tribune, 31 May 2021
• Spores from the fungus traverse throughout the ant’s body, persuading it to crawl into trees and bite onto leaves high above the ground.
  — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 29 Aug. 2020
• The path over the traverse makes use of chains and ladders, following a knife-edge ridge with drops of over a hundred meters on either side.
  — Joe Minihane, CNN, 14 July 2022
• An avatar traverses an imaginary world when a brief pinprick of light appears on the monitor.
  — John Kang, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
• During the episode, Pugh was shown learning how to traverse rapids, test river depth with a rope and rock and avoid poisonous snakes and deep cliff edges.
  — Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2022
• Birds that do stop in the area are now prone to attacks from coyotes or other predators who have more land to traverse, according to Stone.
  — ABC News, 18 July 2022
• The second line, after a swift traverse across the pistes, went down a tall mogul field under a crag, followed by more difficult passages through trees.
  — Simon Akam, Outside Online, 27 Nov. 2019
• That’s a lot to traverse before kicking off a Week 5 game across the country as a 5½-point underdog.
  — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 11 Oct. 2021
• Mammoth offers a few routes, from easy to difficult, that traverse the Caldera Overlook.
  — Sal Vaglica, USA TODAY, 18 June 2022
• A lot has — understandably — happened since Pluto's last traverse through the sign of the water bearer.
  — Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 23 Mar. 2023
• Start in New Haven and traverse Route 1 northeast to Stonington.
  — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 26 Aug. 2021
• Furthermore, during the traverse, the quadrotor should maximize the distance from the edges of the gap to avoid collisions.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Sep. 2016
• Those who make the traverse can reap the rewards while looking out for black bears, wild hogs, alligators and abundant avian residents in the wilderness area.
  — Patrick Connolly, orlandosentinel.com, 26 Feb. 2021