How to Use tramp in a Sentence

tramp

1 of 2 verb
  • We spent the day tramping through the woods.
  • He tramped the streets looking for his dog.
  • The three of us tramped through stands of alder and shafts of sunlight.
    — Ben Goldfarb, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
  • And then workers have to hoist tools onto their backs and tramp through the brush.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2022
  • Imagine The Goonies with a half dozen adults tramping through the caves.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Imagine The Goonies with a half dozen adults tramping through the caves.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Two and a half hours later, the workers tramp over the porcine corpses, shooting those that aren’t already dead.
    — Elizabeth Barber, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
  • Their feet tramped past the November leaves on the grass of the surrounding yards.
    — Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2023
  • About a third of it is from outside, either blown in or tramped in on those offensive shoe bottoms.
    — Mark Patrick Taylor, CBS News, 26 May 2023
  • Teams hike across waterways, tramp under overpasses and scour parks for signs of tents.
    — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2025
  • The pair’s snow boots tramped the nearly week-old Kansas City snow, two candles clutched in their small hands.
    — Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 30 Jan. 2026
  • At MacDowell, the group tramped along a forested path to Wilder’s stone cabin.
    — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Television crews tramped across the Schoos' lawn, as well as the lawns of their extended family members.
    — Steve Lord, Aurora Beacon-News, 20 Dec. 2017
  • To see the Sasquatch crew tramping across a ridge, outlined against a pearlescent sky, is to grasp the fragility of their existence, and of ours.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 12 Apr. 2024
  • In the right of the picture, a platoon of soldiers, heavily armed and preceded by a pair of gun carriages, tramp through a defile.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2025
  • On June 23rd the residents of Turkey’s biggest city will be tramping to the polls all over again.
    — The Economist, 21 June 2019
  • The walls were spattered, from baseboard to ceiling, in blood and so much pooled on the floor that the police had to build a makeshift bridge to get to the body without tramping through it.
    — Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 23 July 2019
  • The bathroom in the apartment, as in most floor-throughs, was off the bedroom in the rear of the flat, meaning guests had to tramp through the kitchen and bedroom in order to get to it.
    — Nicholas Pileggi, Curbed, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The students tramp upstairs to a room of artifacts owned by a Black family in the 1860s.
    — Cory Turner, NPR, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Katie Holmes has spent the past couple of weeks tramping through Manhattan in an accretion of unusual shoes.
    — Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Each day, people from all over Russia tramp up several flights of stairs in an old apartment building in central Moscow.
    — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Sep. 2022
  • To view these almost-overgrown messages and art today, our small group tramped through prickly underbrush and tried to imagine the hard, solitary lives the sheepherders led.
    — Sara Lessley, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2019
  • In The Road it’s been extinguished altogether; father and son tramp toward the nothing of a lifeless sea.
    — Joy Williams, Harper's Magazine, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Twenty years later, in 1614, John Smith tacked up and down the New England coast, tramping the dunes, for gold.
    — Paul Theroux, Harper's Magazine, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Some huts originated as outposts for miners, hunters, foresters, or shepherds, others as way stations for alpinists, scientists, tourists or tramping club members.
    — New York Times, 14 Feb. 2018
  • So kids and adults alike can take a quick bathroom break without having to tramp through the interior, getting back to the outdoor activities of the day without peeling off muddy boots or clothes.
    — New Atlas, 4 Nov. 2025
  • But because of its delicate nature, would-be visitors have to enter a daily lottery to get a permit, helping limit the number of people tramping over the sandstone.
    — Mindy Sink, Denver Post, 2 Apr. 2025
  • In the meantime, Strong will continue tramping around fields in Vermont, looking for more of the striking birds that have become a significant part of his research.
    — Brian MacQuarrie, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2019
  • Home to Regan is beyond the reach of modern technology, tramping the loamy forest foraging for mushrooms, wood sorrel and tiny wild strawberries.
    — Deborah Reid, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2019
  • Most backcountry tramping involves climbing mountains using tree roots as a ladder or shimmying across precarious three-wire bridges (or just plain old river crossings) and wading through mud up to your chest.
    — Liz Carlson, Outside Online, 24 June 2019

tramp

2 of 2 noun
  • Wouldn't that be amazing, if Kim brought back the tramp stamp?
    — Charles Manning, Cosmopolitan, 26 July 2017
  • There’s a tramp, a ditz, a bad boss, a hippie, a by-the-book good girl.
    — Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2026
  • All eyes are drawn to the two tramp-like figures who command the stage.
    — Marilyn Stasio, Variety, 22 Aug. 2021
  • The flower girl becomes ill and the tramp takes it upon himself to provide for her.
    — Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Jan. 2023
  • And finally, from the column of false negatives, the tart is a bit of a tramp.
    — Beth Segal, cleveland, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Victor Moore has one of his most priceless roles as the jolly tramp, Mac.
    — Jack D. Grant, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Dec. 2022
  • The little tramp joins a circus, befriends a bareback rider and walks the tightrope.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2021
  • Either way, the woman comes out the other end a victim and a champion, but as a tramp and a hussy too.
    — Benjy Hansen-Bundy, Glamour, 30 May 2018
  • After all, those tramps weren’t dreaming of walking in the sun in Alabama.
    — Ken Capobianco, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2019
  • Watch BigDog tramp through snow, get kicked, and otherwise abused---just to get up and keep going.
    — Sarah Zhang, Discover Magazine, 6 Mar. 2012
  • The scene inspired future comedy gags showing drifters and tramps losing their pants to dogs chasing them.
    — Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Be prepared to go without a shower or electricity for the duration of your tramp.
    — Ali Wunderman, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Rent snowshoes from the resort’s Skyline Lodge and tramp around frozen Puffer Lake.
    — National Geographic, 23 Jan. 2020
  • Her family received calls and letters calling her a drug addict, a tramp, a communist.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Help, of course, isn’t coming—not over the Indian Ocean, not in the nursing home, not on the tramps’ moonlit road.
    — Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2025
  • There’s also some poetic justice in his casting — Monte really is a tramp.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Asian tramp snails, shown on a coffee leaf with rust fungus, can consume large amounts of the coffee rust before the disease can damage the plant, a new study shows.
    — Esther Horvath, National Geographic, 11 Mar. 2020
  • The two writers took the long way home, stopping to talk with conjurers, tramps, convicts, and backwoods preachers all over the South.
    — Casey N. Cep, The New Yorker, 7 May 2018
  • Lock in the childhood spirit this summer with a big backyard trampoline of your own, like the Merax 12-foot tramp.
    — Sara Hendricks, USA TODAY, 25 June 2020
  • Outside the old man’s shop, an odd-looking cricket is dressed like a tramp, speaking in a folksy tongue that’s definitely not Italian.
    — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Plus, the police are looking for a tramp (David Wilmot) who lives in the forest nearby, and may know something about what happened to her.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 30 Apr. 2026
  • One of his most enduring characters, the little tramp, was a sympathetic outsider who was never flattened by the blows life dealt.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 16 Dec. 2017
  • Gary was driving us to our first attempt at an extended tramp, a night in a bush hut a two-hour hike into the Orongorongo Valley.
    — Longreads, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Maddox trains in trampoline and tramp wall skills, the latter of which is a Cirque du Soleil event that involves trampolining while using a wall.
    — Ramona Sentinel, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Once per act, a second duo crashes in on Didi and Gogo, providing the tramps’ power balance with a lurid, distended foil.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The second time netted $1,500 in gold and silver coins — and eventual life sentences because the crash killed a train fireman and a tramp.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2022
  • As historian Kelly Lytle Hernández writes, one thing that stood in the way of this vision was the figure of the tramp.
    — JSTOR Daily, 21 Oct. 2025
  • An emperor and a tycoon are as vulnerable as a tramp before the mechanisms of the natural world, who will grind each one of us back down to our cellular origins.
    — The School Of Life, CNN, 27 May 2020
  • Sitting atop an immaculate glass coffee table was an overflowing ashtray and a small pile of hardcover books, the top one of which teased a history of tramp steamers.
    — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Led by my father, a forester, the annual tramp through snowy forests of Snoqualmie Pass near Seattle was an event that meant the season had officially arrived.
    — Erin Kirkland, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2017

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