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jaunt

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verb

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of jaunt
Noun
The Holiday 100 makes its annual jolly jaunt back to Billboard’s charts menu. Gary Trust, Billboard, 2 Dec. 2024 Winter is coming, and that means curtailing my cruising, but the joys of jaunting around on this sweet ride should keep me warm even as the weather grows cold. WIRED, 29 Nov. 2024
Verb
Of course, this home offers more than just a quick jaunt to your flight. Erika Owen, Architectural Digest, 23 Sep. 2025 They were sandwiched around a 42-yard jaunt by Baez. Mike Cook, Twin Cities, 20 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for jaunt
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jaunt
Noun
  • The route passes through Lake Ontario and Lake Erie, with a Niagara Falls excursion.
    Maia Pandey, jsonline.com, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Over the summer the actress hit the desert and jetted to the islands with her boyfriend Van Hunt and wore an array of bikinis for their excursions.
    Starr Bowenbank, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • First by shadowing a refugee smuggler and some refugees preparing to trek through the treacherous Darién Gap rainforest.
    Randy Myers, Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Mark’s work has taken him trekking in the Papua Highlands, ice climbing in the Canadian Rockies, and scuba diving in Maldivian, Caribbean, and Australian reefs.
    Mark Johanson, Outside, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • For more information, to schedule a tour or for research appointments, call 414-372-7677.
    Mary Spicuzza, jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The show gave local independent musicians exposure on its soundtrack, increased the popularity of venues like The Bluebird Cafe, inspired cast tours and years later, sparked reunion tours.
    Audrey Gibbs, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • There’s the feeling that this is all just another day at the office, albeit one with enormous gladiators wandering around in the background.
    Richard Lawson, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Sandberg was there wandering around the clubhouse sopping wet from a mixture of champagne, beer and rain water along with other Cub greats, protected by a yellow rain slicker.
    Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Advertisement Travel to the country once limited essentially to pilgrimage and business travel, opened with a tourist e-visa in 2019 and has since become an engine of jobs and investment.
    Ali Shihabi, Time, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Next year will mark the culmination of its Jubilee Year celebrations, and through January, the city will continue to host pilgrimage events, public art installations, and expanded museum programming.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 4 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • One of the game's best sections – and one that probably plays really well in its VR counterpart – involves facehuggers and roaming around a hive unarmed while the Xenomorphs aren't a threat.
    Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • In addition to yards of open grassy areas for Pickles and Franklin to roam freely, there is a pool, sauna, pickleball court, outdoor kitchen, and lots of shaded or umbrella-covered seating.
    Lennie Omalza, Louisville Courier Journal, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Georges Mikautadze tripped before getting back on his feet to score Villarreal’s 18th-minute opener from a Nicolas Pepe assist.
    Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • In the Cowboys’ lone OT possession, inside the Packers’ 5-yard line, Dak was feeling some pressure, and running when he was barely tripped from behind by his old teammate to return to the original line of scrimmage.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • And with her last-day outfit ready to go, she gets set to voyage home feeling centered, not chaotic.
    Alesandra Dubin, Southern Living, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Born around 1755 into a vast web of royal lineage that stretched across Hawaii, he was connected to nearly every major ruling family of his time and became the first Hawaiian chief to voyage beyond the islands.
    JP Mangalindan, Time, 1 Aug. 2025

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“Jaunt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jaunt. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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