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.
• Guests traverse the 300 steps down the hill to the private beach and beach club.
  — Jim Dobson, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
• In one scene, the Please Don’t Destroy boys are chased by a hawk while traversing rocks.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 17 Nov. 2023
• For Europe, the effect is even bigger: 40% of clothes and 50% of shoes traverse the Red Sea.
  — Paul Wiseman and Mae Anderson The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 30 Jan. 2024
• For Europe, the impact is even bigger: 40% of clothes and 50% of shoes traverse the Red Sea.
  — Paul Wiseman and Mae Anderson, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Jan. 2024
• The doubt Gauff has while traversing through the tennis world must have been stratospheric.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2023
• The Lions also will traverse a league-low eight time zones.
  — Detroit Free Press, 11 May 2023
• Or children who aren’t yet able to traverse rocky or steep inclines?
  — Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2023
• So much of Janet Planet is about traversing space and being in nature.
  — Liz Appel, Vogue, 8 Sep. 2023
• Migrants, from all over the world, caught on camera footage traversing some of the 150 smuggling trails on the property.
  — Longreads, 23 Feb. 2024
• Adult females also traverse the ground to lay their eggs.
  — Tree Meinch, Discover Magazine, 15 Feb. 2023
• At Skijor Skowhegan, the team time-trial racers will traverse a 1,000-foot track of gates and jumps.
  — Necee Regis, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Jan. 2023
• The truth is sometimes stranger than fiction and traversing Discovery+ will take you on a journey of extreme fact-finding.
  — Briana Richert, James Mercadante, EW.com, 19 Feb. 2024
• So many have crossed that Chinese citizens are now the fourth-largest group traversing the jungle.
  — Eileen Sullivan, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2023
• Many have held out hope, traversing Maui with posters of the missing, placing them in post offices, hotels, parks and shelters.
  — Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2023
• The traction devices are fitted over shoes and can be used to traverse moderate snow.
  — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2023
• Greater Holland features more than 150 miles of bike paths and off-road trails, many of which traverse the city’s most popular parks.
  — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 29 Nov. 2023
• A lot of that energy savings comes from the data traversing less copper.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Feb. 2024
• In the case of one man who spoke at the meeting, carrying his cart out to the road for pickup would involve traversing a set of 57 steps on the way down and back up, Abbott said.
  — Heather Gann | [e-mail], al, 8 Aug. 2023
• And while that might sound far in the future, a mission would need to get off the ground relatively soon in order to traverse the vast distance to Uranus.
  — Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 30 Mar. 2023
• These tank-like vehicles can traverse all types of snowy, icy, steep terrain in all weather.
  — Jen Murphy, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Mar. 2023
• To reach us, a burst from outside the Milky Way must traverse millions or billions of light-years of the near-empty space between galaxies.
  — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 19 Oct. 2023
• This 40-mile road traverses ocean straits on colossal bridges connecting some of the Geiyo Islands and was built with cyclists in mind.
  — Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 26 Jan. 2024
• As daylight breaks, mouflon sheep or axis deer start to traverse into his range.
  — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 31 July 2023
• Tim Breuer, 58, was the first official orchestrator of the Ridge to Rivers trail system that now traverses the Foothills.
  — Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
• Its 21 crew members, 20 from India and one from Sri Lanka, had traversed an enormous distance to get there.
  — William Wan, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2024
• One of the first and longest road trip routes during that time was Route 66, which traveled between Chicago and Los Angeles and traversed eight states.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 5 May 2023
• To walk through a Meow Wolf space is akin to traversing a video game, where guests have multiple paths and create their own narrative.
  — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2023
• Held on the Seabrook nature trails, runners traverse a habitat of fresh and salt marshes on the Galveston Bay that are home to wildlife and bird sanctuaries.
  — Rebecca Treon, Chron, 20 Jan. 2023

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traverse

2 of 2 noun

• In total, 13 climbers have died in falls along that traverse, the NPS said.
  — Paradise Afshar, CNN, 7 May 2022
• The trail, which can take four to five days to traverse, stretches just over 27 miles.
  — Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 22 June 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
• Why fell more trees or traverse rivers anew when the work had already been done?
  — Tom Mullaney, Quartz, 29 May 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
• 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
• Djibouti stands at the entrance to the Red Sea, which about 12% of all seaborne trade traverses on scores of ships using the Suez Canal.
  — Costas Paris, WSJ, 21 Feb. 2019
• And speaking of that, the saw is equipped with 16-inch wheels to help it better ride over bumpy surfaces and traverse stairs, if need be.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 24 Feb. 2021
• People have tried to climb Everest and Lhotse in a single push across that traverse.
  — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 6 Dec. 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
• So, which Class 4A section looks like the most treacherous to traverse?
  — Jim Paulsen, Star Tribune, 31 May 2021
• 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
• Start in New Haven and traverse Route 1 northeast to Stonington.
  — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 26 Aug. 2021
• 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
• The Peak Walk will also have a glass floor, so those making the traverse can peer into the 6,500-foot chasm that separates the two summits.
  — Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 5 Sep. 2014
• 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
• Today the primary meanings of traverse align with the spanning side.
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Dec. 2021
• The scientists want the rover to clamber up and down the hilly terrain of the river delta and eventually drive all the way out of the crater to get a view from the rim, a traverse of 15 miles.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 16 Feb. 2021
• 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
• There to guide me on a traverse of the Kuresoo was Aivar Ruukel, a local expert, redoubtable in camo fatigues and a knee-length poncho.
  — Henry Wismayer, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2016
• Polleros helped him and his 10-year-old sister traverse Mexico.
  — Seth Harp, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2021
• 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 locals don’t stand for lollygagging on the single-file traverse.
  — Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 6 Jan. 2020
• Many people left behind their jobs and spent their life savings on the quest, and at least four people died along the treacherous traverse through the Rocky Mountains.
  — Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2020
• What made the traverse of the Moose’s Tooth massif an infatuation for you and Wilkinson as climbers, as well as a compelling subject for the film?
  — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 12 May 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
• A lot has — understandably — happened since Pluto's last traverse through the sign of the water bearer.
  — Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 23 Mar. 2023
• 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
• Horn promptly invited him on his next adventure: a traverse of the Arctic ice cap on skis.
  — Adventure, 23 Dec. 2020

Last Updated: 6 May 2024