traversable

Example Sentences

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And, ingeniously, three ancient Roman pavement-mosaics, recessed, are now visible beneath traversable glass floors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025

Many migrants crossing illegally into the United States, officials said, are cutting through traversable woods that may still be perilous.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 12, 2024

But most of the highways were not traversable due to fallen debris, and the other roads were jammed with people trying to leave in a panic.

From Salon • Aug. 15, 2023

This visual style, Dr. Kessler argues, invokes landscapes that are at once traversable in theory and staggeringly vast, following a distinctly American graphic language burrowed deep in our collective psyches.

From New York Times • Jul. 12, 2022

The Bering land bridge, during its millennia of intermittent existence, would have been up to a thousand miles wide, covered by open tundra, and easily traversable by people adapted to cold conditions.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond