(n.) Travel or passage from one place to another; hence, figuratively, a passage through life.
(v. i.) To travel from place to place; to go from home to a distance.
(v. t.) To traverse; to travel over or through.
Example Sentences:
(1) On Friday night, in a stadium built in an area once deemed an urban wasteland, the flame that has journeyed from Athens to every corner of these islands will light the fire that launches the London Olympics of 2012.
(2) The Trans-Siberian railway , the greatest train journey in the world, is where our love story began.
(3) For his lone, perilous journey that defied the US occupation authorities, Burchett was pilloried, not least by his embedded colleagues.
(4) The buses recently went up by 50p per journey, but my wages went up with national inflation which was pennies.
(5) The playing fields on which all those players began their journeys have been underfunded for years and are now facing a renewed crisis because of cuts to local authority budgets.
(6) The cause has been innumerable "VIP movements", as journeys undertaken by those considered important enough for all other traffic to be held up, sometimes for hours, are described in South Asian bureaucratic speak.
(7) The development of pulmonary edema in high-altitude residents with upper respiratory infections and no antecedent low-altitude journey is consistent with the presence of other factors such as inflammation, which may play a role in the pathogenesis of the edema.
(8) "I saw my role, and continue to do so, as doing everything I can to accelerate the Lib Dems' journey from a party of protest to a party of government," he said.
(9) An alternative route is the one via Paris, from where the journey continues to Holland or Great Britain.
(10) His torturous journey for a safer life has led to no life .
(11) He points to the seat where his friend was hit; he says only pride prevents him from lying on the floor for the entire journey.
(12) Davies, who worked closely with AHTSYL's producers to ensure an accurate picture, worries that some medical stories are sold solely as "emotional journeys".
(13) Greece standoff over €86bn bailout eases after Brussels deal Read more But while the bailout chiefs are poised to agree on a route map, the journey for the Greek people seems no less long and arduous.
(14) We wish to thank once again all the Chinese people and people around the world who have supported Beijing 2022 in this extraordinary bid journey.” Earlier, the president Xi threw his weight behind China’s bid, promising the “strongest support” for the Beijing Games in a one-minute video address to the IOC delegates.
(15) On Saturday I made my second trip to the campsite in Lower Stumble – my first journey was on 28 July.
(16) One of those queueing on Sunday morning was Veerle Schmits, 43, a social services worker from Haringey, north London, who was due to travel to Belgium on Saturday to see her family for a belated new year’s party but was forced to delay her journey.
(17) Which certainly isn't a charge you can level at Sony – in recent years, it has conspicuously championed indies (winning a hatful of Baftas for Journey and The Unfinished Swan in the process).
(18) Photograph: Martin Argles for the Guardian A journey that started five years ago with a promise to bring Labour together – to avoid the civil strife that traditionally followed election defeat – risks ending where it began: contemplating electoral wilderness.
(19) During their last conversation in April, Gulru told her that Isis had given the family $30,000 for their journey to Aleppo.
(20) But the controversy generated by Lindsay Lohan's Indian Journey, documenting the Hollywood actor's investigation into child trafficking was not quite matched by its ratings, with 224,000 viewers on Thursday, 1 April.
Odyssey
Definition:
(n.) An epic poem attributed to Homer, which describes the return of Ulysses to Ithaca after the siege of Troy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Odyssey House has conducted an annual marathon therapy group for women who are rape survivors.
(2) "We went through our own little odyssey off-screen as well."
(3) In the mid-70s these other clubs started rising – Studio 54, which was the glitzy manhattan club, where Andy Warhol, Grace Jones and Liza Minelli hung out, and places like 2001 Odyssey, which were for the working-class Brooklynites.” But in the end it was Cohn’s article and Saturday Night Fever that gave the decade its cultural identity.
(4) She is Odysseus's protector in the Odyssey, on hand to provide magical disguises or pep-talks.
(5) This is not Das Kapital or the Constitution of Liberty it's more an odyssey by Candide.
(6) Off the south-west coast of Ibiza stands Es Vedrà, a 400m-high limestone rock which legend suggests was the island of the Sirens who lured sailors to their deaths in Homer's Odyssey.
(7) He wrote in his last book, The Unfinished Life: An Odyssey of Love and Cancer , of deliberately trying to compress what should have been long leisurely years of fatherhood into a few months: one daughter needing to understand where he got his beliefs and ideas, while the other "asked me to write down every likely eventuality that might befall her, and supply a satisfactory answer", as if to keep him always by her side.
(8) In the queue for ferry tickets, stories were exchanged of personal odysseys.
(9) MH What the Grown-ups Were Doing: An Odyssey Through 1950s Suburbia by Michele Hanson is published by Simon & Schuster.
(10) England’s World Cup odyssey will continue with a trip to Ottawa where Norway await them in the round of 16 on Monday evening.
(11) • +30 26740 33565 Don't miss: Homer sights Ithaka makes much of its connection with Homer and there are various sites around the island that are speculatively connected to locations in the Odyssey.
(12) Onset of sufficient treatment was preceded by a diagnostic Odyssey, lasting up to 9 years.
(13) This week, I’m at the SXSW festival for the world premiere of my new film, Beyond Clueless: a feature-length odyssey through the teen genre.
(14) Thus the 'helpless expert' can turn helper, a true therapist (Greek: therapon = servant) and spare the patient a long and futile Odyssey from doctor to doctor.
(15) This distinctive subgenre encompasses the operatic red-earth journey of Priscilla, the heart-wrenching campfire odyssey of My Own Private Idaho , the incandescent howl of The Living End , the wide, open skies of Transamerica and the west-coast desert escapades of this year's Bruno & Earlene Go to Vegas .
(16) By the time it was opened in 1958, Johnson was growing bored with modernist orthodoxies and had embarked on his long, unpredictable stylistic odyssey.
(17) But for the most part the past six years have been an odyssey of self-discipline, of learning to bite his tongue and stick either to his communications portfolio or the Coalition script, whatever he thought of its contents.
(18) Alia Bhatt #VogueEmpower The Ohio State Marching Band Oct. 18 halftime show Pulling shapes “Breakdance Conversation” with Jimmy Fallon & Brad Pitt Body language Ultimate Backflop - The Slow Mo Guys Hitting the water Racial Profiling Experiment Race row Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey Trailer Out of this world Source: Viral Video Chart .
(19) According to many sources, the title of his seventh novel derives from Book Eleven of The Odyssey , a passage where, with “As I lay dying…”, Agamemnon tells Odysseus about his murder.
(20) Farage is easily most animated when discussing his Common Sense Tour of last year, an auto-parodic-sounding meet-and-greet odyssey around the country, but one of which he speaks so fondly that you can't begrudge him it.