How to Use traipse in a Sentence

traipse

verb
  • I traipsed all over town looking for the right dress.
  • I'm too old to go traipsing around Europe.
  • Mule deer, their perky ears alert, traipse across the two-lane state highway.
    — Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Or for strangers traipsing in and out in dirty shoes, for that matter.
    — Dana McMahan, The Courier-Journal, 10 May 2018
  • Locals complained tourist gawked at them or traipsed through their yards.
    — ABC News, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Just keep a garbage can handy outside so folks don’t have to traipse in and out of your home.
    — Dana McMahan, The Courier-Journal, 7 July 2020
  • Your first step isn’t to look at the video—that would be like traipsing through a crime scene.
    — Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Spend an hour traipsing through flat grass paths on the farm with the owner and goat herder.
    — Susan McDonald, The Providence Journal, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Think lots of fans traipsed through the music room during open houses?
    — Lauren Beale, latimes.com, 4 June 2018
  • Deer, red fox and coyotes can be spotted traipsing around the park.
    — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 28 June 2024
  • But birding at this landfill does not mean traipsing through the trash.
    — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 14 May 2026
  • What followed was a medley of hits that traipsed by so quickly that some were easy to miss.
    — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Why, yes, hapless kid traipsing across our lawn, our shotgun is loaded with rock salt.
    — Davey G. Johnson, Car and Driver, 3 Nov. 2017
  • No, this one will be good for a lunch hour of climbing mountains like an ibex or traipsing through the jungle.
    — New Atlas, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Technicians doing the work will not need to traipse through the home’s living areas to do the work.
    — Hartford Courant, 4 Feb. 2023
  • At least one ocelot has also been photographed traipsing through the area multiple times.
    — Ian James, azcentral, 28 Apr. 2019
  • Black women traipse this bumpy road called life with an Atlas-sized burden on our shoulders.
    — Tonja Renée Stidhum, The Root, 1 Oct. 2017
  • Mahaney traipsed around in the dark, photographing buildings and cars caked with layers of snow.
    — Coralie Kraft, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2019
  • To play, the couple’s three children had to traipse through the master bedroom to get to the backyard.
    — Emily Young, latimes.com, 12 July 2019
  • The victim's friends were able to traipse through the crime scene to collect personal effects.
    — Keith Sharon, Nashville Tennessean, 7 Oct. 2025
  • From lifeguards at the pool to the caddies traipsing the golf course, cute boys were simply one of my favorite things.
    — Ree Drummond, Country Living, 6 June 2017
  • The kids traipsed through the set and into the director’s tent, where a producer showed them the script on her screen.
    — Dennis Zhou, New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2025
  • The high ankle fitting is perfect for teens who go traipsing around in the backcountry.
    — Karthika Gupta, Parents, 7 June 2023
  • This shoe is perfect for traipsing around Rome or simply going to the office.
    — Todd Plummer, Travel + Leisure, 13 June 2023
  • Look at the way that his characters traipse through the grammar of toxic disaster.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 30 Dec. 2022
  • But the seeming ease of traipsing down a short trail right off the highway still entices many of the unprepared.
    — Rebecca Worby, Outside Online, 29 Mar. 2018
  • This guy comes for a holiday and has 23 cars and a bike squad traipsing around, and the same again at his next port of call.
    — Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Still, Clark put her fears aside and joined the masses who traipsed to the Mall for the day’s showstopper.
    — Mary Claire Molloy, Washington Post, 4 July 2023
  • Prada sprinted so that Emily in Paris could traipse around France in a red beret.
    — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 22 Dec. 2021
  • On a recent day, a steady stream of patients traipsed through the door, took seats and flipped through magazines, awaiting their turn.
    — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2017

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