(v. i.) To ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion.
(v. i.) To ride on a jaunting car.
(v. t.) To jolt; to jounce.
(n.) A wearisome journey.
(n.) A short excursion for pleasure or refreshment; a ramble; a short journey.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is by no means a total success artistically but it has enough tension, feeling and originality of theme and speech to make the choice understandable, and the evening must have given to anyone who has wrestled with the mechanics of play-making an uneasy and yet not wasted jaunt, just as it must have awoken echoes in anyone one who has not forgotten the frustrations of youth.
(2) Caribou soon became a surprisingly hard-gigging unit, supporting Radiohead on their 2012 arena jaunt at the same time as Dan was touring the world’s premier techno clubs under his dance alias Daphni.
(3) Trump administration officials have argued that the president’s weekend jaunts are correctly described as working weekends: this includes hosting Japan’s prime minister, Shinzō Abe, over the weekend of 10 February and interviewing potential national security adviser picks over this past weekend.
(4) The fans cheered heartily as he broke away from ‘security’ to continue his jaunt.
(5) Your thoughts please: Has Marvel finally jumped the intergalactic space shark with this latest jaunt to planet weird?
(6) We'll go on a global jaunt to the places we've always craved to see.
(7) By day two, we’ve gone to visit his Scandi dream house, tried on his pilot’s hat, had dinner with his wife, and taken in more geysers and cross-country ski jaunts.
(8) May 19, 2017 Even before Trump’s trip morphed from a quick jaunt to Europe into a nine-day behemoth, White House aides were on edge about how the president would take to the grueling pressures of foreign travel: the time zone changes, the unfamiliar hotels, the local delicacies.
(9) Hillary missed the historic event, stuck out, as she was, in Timor-Leste, on one of her epic global jaunts as secretary of state; but she managed to catch it on computer at the residence of the local US ambassador.
(10) His current trip to the west coast, only the latest in a series of California jaunts, is devoted primarily to appealing for help with securing US defense networks – embracing the robust encryption that the FBI warns will lock law enforcement out of judicially-authorized criminal and national security investigations.
(11) Finally, Ned Stark's bastard, Jon Snow, rejoined the Night's Watch after a jaunt with the Wildlings left him with the lesson that love hurts.
(12) Ordinarily, it's an uneventful jaunt through suburbia.
(13) (“There are people who were really into us when we started but don’t think we’re cool any more.”) Despite their stumbles, Alt-J return next month with a strong sophomore record, This is All Yours , on which the familiar dreamy, half-murmured indie meanderings of An Awesome Wave are interwoven with some unexpected pop jags, a Miley Cyrus sample (on summer single Hunger of the Pine ) and the phrase “Gee whizz!” (in pop jaunt Left Hand Free ) among them.
(14) And given Bowie's famously electric stage performances, he might actually want to tour – the jaunt to promote his last album, 2003's Reality, lasted a year before it was cut short.
(15) Personally, I think they should cut it back now before they regret it,” she said of Trump’s long jaunt.
(16) Every Monday morning, Hill visits for a chat and sometimes a jaunt out.
(17) Equally, a powerful upturn in exports would help lift UK plc to solid ground – hence Osborne's jaunt to China last week – but with the eurozone, still our major market, just clambering out of recession, that looks highly unlikely.
(18) In French Polynesia, this was followed by a jaunt on David Geffen’s 45ft yacht with celebrities including Tom Hanks, Oprah Winfrey and Bruce Springsteen.
(19) Photograph: White House Sarah Palin showers Donald Trump with adoration in 'interview of the year' Read more Palin said Obama’s visit to her state was “a tourism jaunt, really”, and criticised the president for his attitude to Russia and China, both of which have increased their military presence near Alaska.
(20) Held every year at the vast Los Angeles convention centre (except for a couple of ill-remembered jaunts to Atlanta, and two years when it was semi-cancelled), it is a trade-only event that everyone in the business has to attend at least once.
Stroll
Definition:
(v. i.) To wander on foot; to ramble idly or leisurely; to rove.
(n.) A wandering on foot; an idle and leisurely walk; a ramble.
Example Sentences:
(1) George Clooney has strolled into one of the most bitter and longest-running controversies in the heritage world, saying it would be "very nice" if the British Museum sent the Parthenon Marbles back to Greece.
(2) For Manchester United this was a Saturday stroll that ended frantically, although the Premier League leaders' latest three points were made even sweeter by the return of their captain, Nemanja Vidic.
(3) Strolling around the perfectly formed FH training facility he laughs at the idea of one of these public spaces popping up in Britain.
(4) Just a short stroll from the start of this walk, the Norman Lockyer Observatory still holds two of his telescopes.
(5) I see a small group strolling along, a tall, handsome man at the centre.
(6) Around 100,000 Syrians live in Izmir, where until a few weeks ago when the EU-Turkey deal was put into effect, smugglers would stroll openly through the central square in the quarter of Basmane.
(7) The teams stroll out, Ivory Coast in their orange kit, Zambia wearing green tracksuit tops.
(8) Jason Puncheon is a lovely, careful passer of the ball and here he out-Cesc’ed Chelsea’s own midfield creator for long periods of the game, strolling about to great effect in his central playmaker role.
(9) Distance 1 mile (1.6km) Classification Gentle stroll Duration 1 hour 45 minutes Begins Salcombe Hill car park OS grid reference SY197889 Walk in a nutshell A mostly flat circuit around the summit of Salcombe Hill, which offers impressive views over the town of Sidmouth and, on a good day, as far as Portland Bill in Dorset.
(10) Not least when PSG aren’t just walking it in Ligue 1, they’re strolling, flaneur ing their way to another room-temperature domestic title, with seven league goals conceded away from home all season, territory and possession dominated each week.
(11) For a foodie reward, stroll to Rue Didot's row of boulangeries.
(12) I joined the Mayfair tour one Sunday afternoon, and for two and a half hours we strolled around looking at the offices of all the hedge funds and investment companies in the area.
(13) #rangers #kings #stanleycup June 12, 2014 2.56am BST Kings 1-2 Rangers, 4:22, 2nd period Williams sets up Stroll and he shoots wide of the net.
(14) Sometime after take-off, however, Pope Francis strolled to the back of the aircraft and gave them their answer.
(15) Those wanting to experience the concept of “shared space” and “naked streets” can stroll absentmindedly round any small town in Italy.
(16) Thankfully I only live a 10 minute stroll away from my office in central Bucharest.
(17) Brandon Belt stikes out, and then Gregor Blanco strolls to the plate.
(18) He strolls up, halts and strokes it into the bottom-right corner.
(19) Despite the lenses pressed against the glass, Yang Guang (his name means Sunshine) strolled around, his shoulders and hind quarters adopting the rolling gait of a prize fighter.
(20) A short stroll from Walker’s Point, where the ancestral estate of the Bush dynasty juts out commandingly into the Atlantic ocean, there is a political campaign slogan in urgent need of fresh clarification.