(v. i.) To walk or run about in a slatternly, careless, or thoughtless manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) This summer, my partner and I traipsed through Bedfordshire’s fields with our son, then two, and daughter, six months old, to join the protest outside Yarl’s Wood detention centre .
(2) That feels a lot more in the Christmas spirit than traipsing round the shops on the high street.
(3) The Pavlovic family, unaware of her fate and assisted by the Serbian embassy, spent three days traipsing from hospitals to morgues searching for her, reporting back to Aca as he recovered from his own surgeries at l’hôpital de Kremlin‑Bicêtre.
(4) There's only so much traipsing sodden hills one person can do; once your Pringles supply from the nearest point of civilisation has been depleted, and anyone with bones ripe for jumping carries the risk of a shared grandparent, it's a wonder more people don't while away the long nights with a spot of leisurely murder.
(5) The fact that we no longer had to traipse to our local chemist to develop a roll of holiday snaps encouraged us to experiment – after all, on a digital camera, the image could be easily deleted if we didn't like the results.
(6) "We've been traipsing through the fields of southern Illinois, and it is worse than the government says."
(7) For decades, instead of a long public process during which candidates traipsed from Iowa to New Hampshire and onwards across the country for series of primaries and caucuses, presidential nominees were chosen in overheated convention halls and the smoke-filled rooms in adjacent hotels.
(8) Currently, most stations have highly partisan commentators with intimate knowledge of their local clubs, who traipse around the country, broadcasting back to their local listeners.
(9) Things took a turn for the ridiculous from the beginning: while the traditional format of the show pairs one man and one woman together for the 21-day challenge, Rogen and Franco were both disappointed to learn that they were not going to spend the better part of a month traipsing through the woods with a naked, sinewy female companion but rather one another.
(10) Yet the worry is banks will mount a further legal challenge to the OFT's ruling, traipsing through the courts again, and this is where the PM comes in.
(11) Uruguay and Germany or Spain stand between the Dutch No10 and a quartet of prizes that would remove the right of all elite players to traipse home from tournaments moaning they were tired.
(12) I know this because I spent all last week not just in the poorest slums where Ebola is spreading but also traipsing around all the big charities’ Monrovia offices, trying to figure out who, if anyone, was doing anything for orphans.
(13) He also dismissed Hammond’s earlier remarks to Sky News that it would not be effective to have a “sort of committee of 10 traipsing in and out trying to talk to Russia”.
(14) As the world's leaders traipse home from Copenhagen, activist rock stars are doing the same, with Thom Yorke complaining that he feels "deeply traumatised" by his time at the UN climate change conference.
(15) Traipsing the kilometre-long gauntlet of novelty structures, past Daniel Libeskind’s twisted totem poles for Siemens and Norman Foster’s €60m rippling pink concrete walls for the United Arab Emirates , it’s hard not to see the whole endeavour as a monumentally misplaced allocation of resources.
(16) Egypt's attacks on press freedom unprecedented, says watchdog Read more The imagery of Cameron traipsing around an urban landscape that still bore the scars of revolutionary struggle was designed to convey a particular message: after decades of providing steadfast support to one of the Middle East’s most entrenched autocrats, Britain was supposedly ready to embrace a new type of politics.
(17) Aspiring assassin Arya Stark traipses the country with her fellow fugitive, the currish Hound, who finally got fed up with King Joffrey.
(18) "I'm not a fan of airports," says Richard Wilson, getting into the lift at the end of a low-ceilinged corridor, after traipsing through Heathrow's warren of tunnels and travelators.
(19) The whole point of a car is that you should drive it aggressively off road, spilling dirt and gravel over the bunny huggers who are traipsing around National Trust properties while nibbling on their falafel and ciabatta sandwiches.
(20) Alexander said: “Suggesting that Britain’s diplomatic role could only ever be as part of a so-called ‘traipsing committee of 10’ tells you a great deal more about the foreign secretary than it does about the United Kingdom.” Hammond retorted that “perhaps General Sir Richard Shirreff should consider carefully the meaning of the word irrelevance and where it might best be applied”.
Travel
Definition:
(v. i.) To labor; to travail.
(v. i.) To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets.
(v. i.) To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his health; he is traveling in California.
(v. i.) To pass; to go; to move.
(v. t.) To journey over; to traverse; as, to travel the continent.
(v. t.) To force to journey.
(n.) The act of traveling, or journeying from place to place; a journey.
(n.) An account, by a traveler, of occurrences and observations during a journey; as, a book of travels; -- often used as the title of a book; as, Travels in Italy.
(n.) The length of stroke of a reciprocating piece; as, the travel of a slide valve.
(n.) Labor; parturition; travail.
Example Sentences:
(1) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
(2) MI6 introduced him to the Spanish intelligence service and in 2006 he travelled to Madrid.
(3) Younge, a former head of US cable network the Travel Channel, succeeded Peter Salmon in the role last year.
(4) At the weekend the couple’s daughter, Holly Graham, 29, expressed frustration at the lack of information coming from the Foreign Office and the tour operator that her parents travelled with.
(5) Thirty-six dogs were seropositive, 28 of which had not traveled to endemic areas.
(6) The findings provide additional evidence that, for at least some cases, the likelihood of a physician's admitting a patient to the hospital is influenced by the patient's living arrangements, travel time to the physician's office, and the extent to which medical care would cause a financial hardship for the patient.
(7) Travel around Fukushima today and there is little evidence of disaster or trauma.
(8) Pulse-chase experiments showed that the ornithine transcarbamylase precursor and the thiolase traveled from the cytosol to the mitochondria with half-lives of less than 5 min, whereas the three fusion proteins traveled with half-lives of 10-15 min.
(9) Federal judges who blocked the bans cited harsh rhetoric employed by Trump on the campaign trail , specifically a pledge to ban all Muslims from entering the US and support for giving priority to Christian refugees, as being reflective of the intent behind his travel ban.
(10) For months, more than 170,000 mainly Syrian refugees travelling north from Greece have used Hungary as a thoroughfare to the safety of northern and western Europe.
(11) Ultimate nonsurvivors of ICU admission (36 per cent) had shorter out-of-hospital times, shorter travel distances, and increased interventional support, as assessed by the Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System applied over the telephone and prior to departure at the referring hospital.
(12) Routine vaccination of travellers to endemic areas cannot be recommended; however, for people travelling to regions with a high transmission rate vaccination should be considered.
(13) As travelling is generally increasing, this disease might be encountered more frequently also in Europe.
(14) Manchester United 3-1 Barcelona | match report Read more While, according to Louis van Gaal , Rojo was not on the flight because of an issue with his travel documents, the manager was unsure why Di María had failed to board the plane.
(15) Most cases of typhoid fever in the United States occur in international travelers, with the greatest risk associated with travel to Peru, India, Pakistan, and Chile.
(16) He knows polymer notes from travels in Australia, where they were first introduced in 1988, and he wants Britain to "move with the times" too.
(17) It won't be worth putting away his travel bags after returning from Perth as the G20 summit in Cannes, France, beckons.
(18) In a triple tier configuration, females concentrated 66% of their travel on the top tier.
(19) After filming, he stayed on in the Middle East for several weeks to travel.
(20) The findings suggest that health planning could be considerably enhanced by a better understanding of patient preferences for medical care travel behavior, the origins of these preferences, and their relationship to the use of available medical care opportunities.