Sample Sentences fortraverse (editor-reviewed)
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Each year, more than 120,000 ships traverse the pirate-infested waters off Southeast Asia.traverse = travel across
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The tunnel has been cleared of water, so trains can traverse the river again.
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A hundred miles, and only one day to traverse them! (source)
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The wind is cool and goose bumps traverse the length of Sam's arms.† (source)
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The traverse that leads to him is the hardest section of the route.† (source)
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A ghastly number of scars traverse his torso.† (source)
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One of our favorites was to ride the streetcars that traversed the city.† (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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"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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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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Flocks of birds, flying at great speed, were wheeling and circling, and traversing all the land as if they were searching for something; and they were steadily drawing nearer.† (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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