Sample Sentences for
traverse
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    A ghastly number of scars traverse his torso.†  (source)
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    Tonight the Sunday clothes would be wrapped in newspaper and hung for Sunday and the shoes would be packed away to be brought out again only when the weather turned so cold that bare feet could no longer traverse the frozen roads; but for today we all suffered.†  (source)
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    Standing atop the tower anchoring the eastern end of the span, I attach myself to the cable with rock-climbing hardware and begin to pull myself across, hand over hand, executing what mountaineers call a Tyrolean traverse.†  (source)
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    One of our favorites was to ride the streetcars that traversed the city.†  (source)
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    Four stories up, the Austrians clap another shell into the smoking breech of the 88 and double-check the traverse and clamp their ears as the gun discharges, but down here Werner hears only the radio voices of his childhood.†  (source)
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    "We are now traversing the night side ..." he said in a hushed voice.†  (source)
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    There were little cliffs to be scaled, some to be used as paths, lengthy traverses where one used hands as well as feet.†  (source)
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    Eddis controls the only easily traversable pass through the mountains between Sounis and Attolia, the two wealthiest trading countries in this part of the world.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
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    Two quiet figures were within the room; two figures, equally still and impassive, equally removed by an untraversable distance from the teeming earth and all that it contains, though soon to lie in it.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in untraversable means not and reverses the meaning of traversable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    The sun traversed a shallow arc over the horizon and soon set.†  (source)
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    He could traverse the length of the kennel and gain the clear summer night air that way—a few seconds' travel, if he hurried.†  (source)
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    She starts in the corner and writes steadily across, my name and my name traversing everything else.†  (source)
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    Lousy Lane traverses the Grim River, a body of water that is nine-tenths mud and that contains extremely unnerving fish, and it encircles a horseradish factory, so the entire area smells bitter and strong.†  (source)
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