How to Use traversal in a Sentence

traversal

noun
  • That wrong warp can save a lot of tedious traversal and avoid many threats at the same time.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 11 Apr. 2022
  • The game seems to have the right idea about how to do Sonic traversal in a big 3D space.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 14 June 2022
  • The Doom Slayer can even toss his shield and jump to it, acting like a form of traversal.
    — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Heavy ions tend to break up into lighter ions in thick shielding, but can survive traversal of thin shielding (blues) intact.
    — Bill Andrews, Discover Magazine, 30 May 2013
  • The traversal of a complete day and night is a useful frame for literature and drama.
    — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 July 2023
  • But getting to the traversal, the highest bar, is proving more difficult.
    — Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 20 Apr. 2022
  • For those worried that this may make the game too big, the one saving grace is that there are no vehicles, meaning all traversal will be on foot.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2023
  • And the time spent between each highlight is often wasted on lengthy traversal through massive levels.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 12 Dec. 2019
  • New demons and mechanics that add depth to both the combat and level traversal/exploration.
    — Ty Galiz-Rowe, Ars Technica, 25 Oct. 2022
  • The campaign, and Endgame, will feature some fun bells and whistles like grappling hook traversal and wingsuits.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Does the world need another traversal of Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas?
    — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 27 Nov. 2019
  • Armada is simply three ships out in the ocean, with boats, ziplines and old-fashioned swimming as your main methods of traversal.
    — Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2020
  • And some of the levels include cockamamie traversal paths that require players to run back and forth through cleared, no-combat zones of levels.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Throw in a Halo Infinite-style grappling hook that can be used for traversal or combat.
    — Ars Technica, 26 Feb. 2025
  • In addition to the combat skills, each Legion has an ability that helps traversal or unlocks new paths in each level.
    — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2019
  • But the Joro won‘t just resort to its traditional means of traversal to colonize new terrain.
    — Ben Turner, Scientific American, 7 Mar. 2022
  • The low rung garners four points, the medium six, the high bar 10, and the uppermost, known as the traversal, a solid 15.
    — Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Shackleton and his crew had intended to make the first complete traversal of Antarctica.
    — Eva Holland, The Atlantic, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Instead, the game's real victory is in traversal—in enabling it and in patting players on the back for doing it correctly.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 17 Nov. 2018
  • The character models used in the game's cinematic cut scenes are pretty much identical to those in traversal and combat, as well.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 6 Apr. 2020
  • Players will power up these weapons and gain new abilities that make traversal easier, further opening up areas to explore.
    — Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 18 Apr. 2025
  • At the shelter, players can also test their skills in training sessions that teach the finer points of weapons and traversal, preparing them for tougher challenges ahead.
    — Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2026
  • His traversal of the complete set, also recorded at the Cliburn, has now appeared on the Steinway & Sons label.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2023
  • The airship map, which is scheduled to come out in early 2021, has new tasks to complete as well as ladders and floating platforms for traversal.
    — Jay Peters, The Verge, 21 Jan. 2021
  • Then Chris pitched the idea of a pole-to-pole traversal bookended by stretches of driving in the Arctic and Antarctica.
    — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Levels have either a sci-fi or fantasy theme with it; each has a different kind of gameplay mechanic, and both girls have their own special traversal abilities.
    — George Yang, Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2024
  • How to make humanoids do versatile parkour jumping, clapping dance, cliff traversal, and box pick-and-move with a unified RL framework?
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 June 2024
  • Brig will also travel much further with Shield Bash — 10 meters — so that opens up some intriguing traversal options for her.
    — Kris Holt, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022
  • The combat and traversal in other survival games are implemented as means to an end — something to do before getting back to the more important work of mining and grinding.
    — Luke Winkie, Vulture, 9 Apr. 2021
  • In addition, the action includes top-tier spider combat and awesome web-slinging and web-gliding traversal abilities.
    — George Yang, PC Magazine, 1 May 2026

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