tramp

Example Sentences

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“Consider the Consequences” is a breezy, ironic tramp through the social rituals of the interwar period.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

Then, “step would follow step until we should have established justice and abolished alike the tramp and the millionaire.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2023

The near silence of the hall was occasionally broken as the officers standing vigil changed, with the precise tramp of boots echoing through the room.

From BBC • Sep. 14, 2022

In this atmospheric novel, the pursuers and their prey tramp past chilly lakes beneath snow flurries and starry skies.

From Washington Post • Sep. 3, 2022

Every evening at quitting time my exhausted grandfather would come out of the factory and tramp across to an adjacent building housing the Ford English School.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides