How to Use traverse in a Sentence

traverse

1 of 3 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 | Hgann@al.com, 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
  • Nomadland, the Oscar-winning film also released that year, is about a woman traversing the country in her RV.
    Melvin Backman, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2024
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traverse

2 of 3 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
  • Their up-and-down trajectory traverses space for just a few minutes.
    Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 29 June 2023
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traverse

3 of 3 adjective
  • Finland’s Finnair has been forced to reroute many of its flights from the region that its aircraft typically traverse.
    Emma Brown, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2022
  • The route would have taken them through quiet countryside a few centuries ago, but today sees them traverse the busy city.
    CNN, 24 Oct. 2021
  • The Fairhope parade will include lining up floats parked along Section Street and have vehicles traverse along the parade route.
    al, 27 Nov. 2020
  • So the new course is probably going to start in Milwaukee and traverse to southern counties.
    Lori Nickel, Journal Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Parts of the 6-mile trail for off-road biking or hiking are heavily forested and traverse steep ancient dunes; $6 per vehicle.
    Clara Bosonetto, ajc, 17 Dec. 2013
  • How should marketers traverse this quickly evolving space?
    Matthew Lieberman, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Similarly, some projects are simply too big or traverse too many internal silos to be handled by a single AI tool.
    David Drai, Forbes, 3 May 2022
  • Most of these competitions take place on trails, or terrain off the paved roadways runners traverse during traditional road races.
    Brett Williams, Men's Health, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Common backpacking circumstances that warrant a dedicated ice pick include the need to clear and traverse snowy trails, as well as preparation of backcountry campsites and removal of ice from hard surfaces including wood, rock, and asphalt.
    Popular Science, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Finland’s Finnair has been forced to reroute many of its flights from the region that its aircraft typically traverse.
    Emma Brown, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2022
  • The route would have taken them through quiet countryside a few centuries ago, but today sees them traverse the busy city.
    CNN, 24 Oct. 2021
  • The Fairhope parade will include lining up floats parked along Section Street and have vehicles traverse along the parade route.
    al, 27 Nov. 2020
  • So the new course is probably going to start in Milwaukee and traverse to southern counties.
    Lori Nickel, Journal Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Parts of the 6-mile trail for off-road biking or hiking are heavily forested and traverse steep ancient dunes; $6 per vehicle.
    Clara Bosonetto, ajc, 17 Dec. 2013
  • How should marketers traverse this quickly evolving space?
    Matthew Lieberman, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Similarly, some projects are simply too big or traverse too many internal silos to be handled by a single AI tool.
    David Drai, Forbes, 3 May 2022
  • Most of these competitions take place on trails, or terrain off the paved roadways runners traverse during traditional road races.
    Brett Williams, Men's Health, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Common backpacking circumstances that warrant a dedicated ice pick include the need to clear and traverse snowy trails, as well as preparation of backcountry campsites and removal of ice from hard surfaces including wood, rock, and asphalt.
    Popular Science, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Finland’s Finnair has been forced to reroute many of its flights from the region that its aircraft typically traverse.
    Emma Brown, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2022
  • The route would have taken them through quiet countryside a few centuries ago, but today sees them traverse the busy city.
    CNN, 24 Oct. 2021
  • The Fairhope parade will include lining up floats parked along Section Street and have vehicles traverse along the parade route.
    al, 27 Nov. 2020
  • So the new course is probably going to start in Milwaukee and traverse to southern counties.
    Lori Nickel, Journal Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Parts of the 6-mile trail for off-road biking or hiking are heavily forested and traverse steep ancient dunes; $6 per vehicle.
    Clara Bosonetto, ajc, 17 Dec. 2013
  • How should marketers traverse this quickly evolving space?
    Matthew Lieberman, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Similarly, some projects are simply too big or traverse too many internal silos to be handled by a single AI tool.
    David Drai, Forbes, 3 May 2022
  • Most of these competitions take place on trails, or terrain off the paved roadways runners traverse during traditional road races.
    Brett Williams, Men's Health, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Common backpacking circumstances that warrant a dedicated ice pick include the need to clear and traverse snowy trails, as well as preparation of backcountry campsites and removal of ice from hard surfaces including wood, rock, and asphalt.
    Popular Science, 25 Feb. 2021

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