How to Use tromp in a Sentence

tromp

verb
  • We tromped over the grass.
  • Workmen were tromping through the building all day.
  • But many braved the elements and tried to tromp home on foot.
    — Mike Klingaman, baltimoresun.com, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Watch as men tromp about with flashlights, set up torches.
    — Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Arbus couldn’t just go, fully clothed, and tromp around the camps.
    — Alicia Ault, Smithsonian, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Rikki heard someone coming up the stairs, the heavy strain of weight tromping up the steps.
    — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
  • Cersei and Jaime are tromping around on one; Dany is planning her attacks on one.
    — vanityfair.com, 24 July 2017
  • After tromping up hills and around bends, nearly everyone is wiping sweat away.
    — Adam Harris, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2019
  • For 18 years, the scientists tromped through these patches every summer.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2019
  • With that many people, having everyone tromp up to the main house to do their business quickly became untenable.
    — Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Nov. 2021
  • The duo tromped through the heat, humidity and clouds of mosquitoes, recording some 50 birds in just seven days.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Christopher McDougall’s Born to Run spurred thousands to tromp through the woods barefoot.
    — Sheon Han February 9, Longreads, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Dress appropriately for the weather and the likelihood of tromping through snow.
    — John Meyer, The Know, 22 Nov. 2019
  • Human denizens tromped back to the lodge to compare observations and share images on small LED screens.
    — Clark Fair, Alaska Dispatch News, 29 July 2017
  • While the fabric did not do any damage, the activists were prosecuted for tromping across the site and leaving visible trails in the desert near the glyph.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 3 Feb. 2018
  • While their classmates are partying, the Outing Club members are tromping around in the woods, says Waltz.
    — Gloria Liu, Outside Online, 14 May 2018
  • Back in the United States, my parents, like others searching for healthy hobbies, tromped on volksmarches.
    — Washington Post, 25 Dec. 2019
  • Brotherton and Lucey walked back across the roof to the AB stairs, tromped down one flight, and started searching the top floor for people.
    — Sean Flynn, Esquire, 9 Mar. 2017
  • This shoe is ideal for anyone tromping around in wet terrain, providing the breathability of a sandal with the protection of a full shoe.
    — Janna Irons, Popular Mechanics, 26 Mar. 2020
  • Visitors have also heard the sounds of boots tromping above, probably from the Federal soldiers once stationed there.
    — Verna Gates, al, 14 Oct. 2019
  • From tromping through dense forest to rappelling off cliffs, the team does what’s necessary to collect seeds and cuttings and to identify areas that need protection.
    — Chris Johns, National Geographic, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Venechuk, 27, and Hoxie, 25, were among the undergraduate students who tromped out to the bluff to do laser scanning.
    — Devin Kelly, Anchorage Daily News, 12 June 2019
  • Wind gusts pushed the fire through forests like blow torches, leaving firefighters with little opportunity to stop or slow down the walls of flames tromping across wild lands and across highways overnight.
    — Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Interviewers tromped through her Bowery apartment; TV talk show hosts invited her to speak onscreen.
    — Maggie Doherty, New Republic, 8 Sep. 2017
  • So, how in the world does a building stay standing for nearly 2,000 years, through earthquakes and invasions, not to mention millions of tromping tourists?
    — Christine Van Blokland, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2017
  • Their analysis suggests that the creatures were Columbian mammoths, a species that tromped from Canada to modern Nicaragua starting nearly a million years ago.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 26 Feb. 2018
  • But aside from a tendency to have characters tromp down the creaky movable seating at West of Lenin, the staging has a simplicity that serves the material just fine.
    — Dusty Somers, The Seattle Times, 30 May 2017
  • The Danish-made felt boots with rubber soles have proven to be the ideal inside-outside shoe, with ankle-high coverage that adds just enough protection to tromp around through a light dusting of snow or stroll along a woodsy trail.
    — Lily Ritter, Outside, 18 Nov. 2025
  • But for the prosecutors Monday tromping through the brush, the evidence that factions of the gang were joining forces was just as strong a signal affirming that those working to bring them to justice needed to as well.
    — Lynh Bui, Washington Post, 1 July 2019
  • This could lead to serious environmental problems as the creatures tromp through fragile ecosystems, outcompete native species and deposit enormous amounts of feces in waterways.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Nov. 2023

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