How to Use traverse in a Sentence

traverse

1 of 2 verb
  • The candidates traversed the state throughout the campaign.
  • The river traverses the county.
  • The crew traversed through five biomes.
    — Barbie Porter, Twin Cities, 18 Sep. 2025
  • All kinds of fires, many of them in areas rarely traversed by humans.
    — River Selby august 25, Literary Hub, 25 Aug. 2025
  • The june bug traverses the flagstones lit through the glass door.
    — María Ospina, The Dial, 31 Mar. 2026
  • At least by someone who has spent four months traversing the country.
    — Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2026
  • Anyone can join to traverse the trail in a people- or horse-powered way.
    — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Trails have suffered erosion, so take care while traversing them.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 29 Sep. 2025
  • This report has a flip side—one that points out the safest states to traverse this summer.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Hikers can traverse looming sand dunes on 6 miles of trails.
    — Julia Sayers Gokhale, Midwest Living, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Only 10 ships have traversed the strait in the last 24 hours.
    — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The two cars would then traverse the highway as a single vehicle.
    — Erica Klarreich, Quanta Magazine, 22 Apr. 2026
  • That same sense of gravity is felt by golfers traversing the dynamic dunes.
    — Tim Corlett, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Habermas wished, in a sense, to vacate the hotel and traverse the abyss outside.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
  • Tristyn is then seen traversing the property through mud and water, then goes inside the home.
    — Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 10 June 2026
  • Massive semi-trucks traverse the roads every day.
    — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, AZCentral.com, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Furthermore, our cosmos might be so vast that light simply hasn’t had enough time to traverse it.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 23 May 2026
  • Plenty of helpful signs are posted throughout, and main paths traverse the park.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 May 2026
  • It's designed to stably traverse loose, uneven terrain such as sand, mud and snow.
    — Ben Coxworth march 28, New Atlas, 28 Mar. 2026
  • From there, the monks will walk together again, traversing six miles to the temple where their trip began.
    — Tiffany Stanley, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2026
  • From there, the monks will walk together again, traversing six miles to the temple where their trip began.
    — Deepa Bharath, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Admission is free and guests are welcome to traverse trails through hammock and sand pine scrub habitats.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 1 Sep. 2025
  • But hardly any ships have traversed the strait since the war began in late February.
    — Justin Fishel, ABC News, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Practices can send a staff member with a wheelchair to help patients traverse long distances.
    — Paula Span, Miami Herald, 15 Dec. 2025
  • On the one hand, winter brings fresh powder, steep descents, and the chance to traverse beautiful glades.
    — Graham Averill, Outside, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Wake up to another day traversing the large island or just enjoying your campsite by the beach.
    — Kelsey Glennon, Southern Living, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Feel this, for instance, when Harry and pals traverse the moving staircase.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
  • More than 20% of the world’s oil output traversed through the waterway before the start of the war.
    — Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Oh, and don’t forget the walking paths that traverse 21 acres of Sonoran desert.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 19 Apr. 2026
  • The birds that traverse our skies over each of these landscapes provide the focus for the larger exhibit.
    — Edward Keegan, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2026

traverse

2 of 2 noun
  • Why fell more trees or traverse rivers anew when the work had already been done?
    — Tom Mullaney, Quartz, 29 May 2021
  • Some climbers hire guides for the trip, and some of those guides rope up clients for tougher traverses.
    — Craig R. McCoy / Staff Writer, Philly.com, 12 July 2017
  • The trail, which can take four to five days to traverse, stretches just over 27 miles.
    — Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 22 June 2021
  • The painting shows one such traverse, the bargees poling the barge across the river.
    — Literary Hub, 12 May 2026
  • Do traverse rods still use the same cord and pully system to move clips or pins across a track to open and close the panels?
    — Catherine Gaugh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 May 2022
  • That’s key on a rocky planet like Mars because much of its surface is too rough for a rover to traverse.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Shackleton and his men were to attempt the first full traverse of the frozen continent in the south.
    — Kraig Becker, Popular Mechanics, 20 June 2017
  • People have tried to climb Everest and Lhotse in a single push across that traverse.
    — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 6 Dec. 2022
  • For three years in a row, researchers embarked on a two-week traverse of Antarctica.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Lines stretching along sidewalks, across parking lots and down streets took days to traverse, with folks there having to camp out overnight.
    — al, 26 July 2022
  • Their up-and-down trajectory traverses space for just a few minutes.
    — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 29 June 2023
  • In total, 13 climbers have died in falls along that traverse, the NPS said.
    — Paradise Afshar, CNN, 7 May 2022
  • Today the primary meanings of traverse align with the spanning side.
    — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Dec. 2021
  • The locals don’t stand for lollygagging on the single-file traverse.
    — Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Competitors navigated their way through mud pits, over a traverse wall and across a balance beam.
    — Daniel I. Dorfman, chicagotribune.com, 16 Sep. 2019
  • It’s situated in a hilly area accessed by steep, windy roads that traverse ravines that drop off hundreds of yards on either side.
    — Bloomberg.com, 25 Nov. 2020
  • Both men completed the traverse alone, off trail and unsupported.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2022
  • So, which Class 4A section looks like the most treacherous to traverse?
    — Jim Paulsen, Star Tribune, 31 May 2021
  • Spores from the fungus traverse throughout the ant’s body, persuading it to crawl into trees and bite onto leaves high above the ground.
    — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 29 Aug. 2020
  • The path over the traverse makes use of chains and ladders, following a knife-edge ridge with drops of over a hundred meters on either side.
    — Joe Minihane, CNN, 14 July 2022
  • An avatar traverses an imaginary world when a brief pinprick of light appears on the monitor.
    — John Kang, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • During the episode, Pugh was shown learning how to traverse rapids, test river depth with a rope and rock and avoid poisonous snakes and deep cliff edges.
    — Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Birds that do stop in the area are now prone to attacks from coyotes or other predators who have more land to traverse, according to Stone.
    — ABC News, 18 July 2022
  • The second line, after a swift traverse across the pistes, went down a tall mogul field under a crag, followed by more difficult passages through trees.
    — Simon Akam, Outside Online, 27 Nov. 2019
  • That’s a lot to traverse before kicking off a Week 5 game across the country as a 5½-point underdog.
    — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 11 Oct. 2021
  • Mammoth offers a few routes, from easy to difficult, that traverse the Caldera Overlook.
    — Sal Vaglica, USA TODAY, 18 June 2022
  • A lot has — understandably — happened since Pluto's last traverse through the sign of the water bearer.
    — Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Start in New Haven and traverse Route 1 northeast to Stonington.
    — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Furthermore, during the traverse, the quadrotor should maximize the distance from the edges of the gap to avoid collisions.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Sep. 2016
  • Those who make the traverse can reap the rewards while looking out for black bears, wild hogs, alligators and abundant avian residents in the wilderness area.
    — Patrick Connolly, orlandosentinel.com, 26 Feb. 2021

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