traipse
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And then, upon reaching Georgia, they should turn around and do a traipse northward to Maine, because next season’s not looking so hot, either.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
But traipse past the principal’s office, scale a short incline, and you’ll be rewarded with an 80-foot-long mural that explodes with color.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2026
“I had to come downstairs late at night in my pajamas to a kitchen filled with six people and traipse through them,” Glusac, a writer, said.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 22, 2025
A traipse to London is no longer a necessity.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2024
“They just want an excuse to traipse through here. And of course, they’d love to get their hands on Papi.”
From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez
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George Cukor’s black-and-white vision traipses its heroines through dress fittings, manicures and facials, day drinking and backstabbing all the way, save for an interruption by a Technicolor fashion show.
From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2025
The film tackles the immigrant experience but also traipses into moments from the director’s personal history, Mexican history and dreamlike combinations of the two.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2023
The commitment to C.G.I. realism is so potent that when a triceratops herd traipses through a dark cave, it’s portrayed in faux night vision, with grayed-out colors and glinting eyeballs.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2022
Schumer, whose flip phone is a ubiquitous presence next to his ear as he traipses the Capitol, has been similarly chatty with administration officials after lawmakers left Washington until at least April 20.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 7, 2020
The exhibit runs through Tuesday at the W. J. Niederkorn Library in Port Washington before it traipses through the state over the next 11 months.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 8, 2016
In search of someone to teach him the art, Francis traipsed around Los Angeles looking for an internship.
From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2025
In 2021, he traipsed for five months and 2,000 miles between London, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Dublin and Belfast; before climbing Ben Nevis, Snowdon and Scafell Pike.
From BBC ● May 30, 2025
Survivors traipsed through muck to find drinking water, power, Wi-Fi and cell service.
From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2024
He likely traipsed through poison oak while out in the wilderness and the swelling in his paws had not subsided as of Thursday, Dawes said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2024
Herbie gawked at this serene woman who traipsed so placidly about her Shangri-la.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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As the first ray of sun hit on an unexpectedly frosty August morning, a few hundred just-graduated Ukrainian paratroopers were traipsing across a corn and rapeseed field, preparing for their first jump.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
So in order to fly the tricolore in Milan, they would have had to give up their multimillion NHL salaries and spend a couple seasons traipsing around the Alps for virtually nothing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
The kind of bowl you crave after traipsing home through slushy streets with cold fingers.
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2025
Youngsters making the transition to the seniors go left, to their own dressing room, saving them from traipsing across from the academy building on the other side of the complex for training.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2025
‘Here you come traipsing in after everbody done finished supper. Seem to me like I never will get off from work.’
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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