(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”.
Tread
Definition:
(v. i.) To set the foot; to step.
(v. i.) To walk or go; especially, to walk with a stately or a cautious step.
(v. i.) To copulate; said of birds, esp. the males.
(v. t.) To step or walk on.
(v. t.) To beat or press with the feet; as, to tread a path; to tread land when too light; a well-trodden path.
(v. t.) To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, or the like.
(v. t.) To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue.
(v. t.) To copulate with; to feather; to cover; -- said of the male bird.
(n.) A step or stepping; pressure with the foot; a footstep; as, a nimble tread; a cautious tread.
(n.) Manner or style of stepping; action; gait; as, the horse has a good tread.
(n.) Way; track; path.
(n.) The act of copulation in birds.
(n.) The upper horizontal part of a step, on which the foot is placed.
(n.) The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet.
(n.) The part of a wheel that bears upon the road or rail.
(n.) The part of a rail upon which car wheels bear.
(n.) The chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle.
(n.) A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes. See Interfere, 3.
Example Sentences:
(1) Will it continue treading water, deciding cases in pretty much the same way as the law lords used to do - although using blunter language?
(2) He has to tread some of the same path as Joe Biden but without the posturing and aggression.
(3) I'm not in the least ambitious, never have been, and I don't tread on people.
(4) Dombey treads proudly towards his doom with the author's unheard warnings ringing in his ears.
(5) Admittedly, there has been a bit of sour grapes in the English response to the success of Dempsey et al, and no doubt we will be treading those grapes into wine and drinking ourselves into oblivion if Team USA get much further – they are, as today's typically excitable NY Daily News front page informs us, now just "four wins from glory" .
(6) Kristen Woolf, girl-centred practice and strategy director, The Girl Hub , London, UK, @girleffect Don't lose focus on girls: Very clearly men and boys have got to be a central component of the solution, but we need to tread carefully here not to lose the focus on equality and empowerment for girls and women.
(7) Incongruous and illusory depth cues, arising from 'interference patterns' produced by overlapping linear grids at the edges of escalator treads, may contribute to the disorientation experienced by some escalator users, which in turn may contribute to the causes of some of the many escalator accidents which occur.
(8) This assignment to Cairo had been relatively routine - an opportunity to get to know Egyptian politics a little better; but with only three weeks on the ground, hardly time to do anything other than tread water.
(9) UK schools are treading water when we know that matching the very best could boost the growth rate by one percentage point every year.
(10) A noninvasive criterion of occlusions of the lower limb arteries was elaborated from the results of transcutaneous measurement of oxygen tension (TmO2) during treading on a treadmill.
(11) 1982) suggested to require DA (head weaving, reciprocal forepaw treading).
(12) But the oxygen saturations on swimming were in all patients higher than after tread-wheel exercise.
(13) The changes at CDC, which is supposed to invest where other investors fear to tread, follow criticism of the organisation for focusing too much on profits and not enough on development.
(14) Now he’s remarried, with a young, new family, and treading the boards on Broadway.
(15) These figures illustrate how millions of people are treading water, struggling to keep afloat and afford the very basics.
(16) It was only when I was criticized for writing science fiction that I realized I was treading on sacred ground."
(17) That line is trickier to tread for working-class comics, into which category Bishop – with a Liverpool accent so rich it's got calories – falls.
(18) We tread a fine line and, because each picture is judged on its merits on the day, it is very difficult to have hard and fast rules.
(19) Where German officials have feared to tread, dramatists have rushed in.
(20) That doesn’t mean no one should ever criticise Israel, for fear of treading on Jewish sensitivities.