tromped; tromping; tromps
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: tramp sense 1
a lot of knocking on doors, tromping from room to room—
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: to step hard : stamp
tromped on the brake
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Examples of tromp in a Sentence
We tromped over the grass.
Workmen were tromping through the building all day.
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California’s water officials on Tuesday will tromp out to Phillips Station near Sierra-at-Tahoe ski resort to take their second monthly manual snowpack reading of the season — a largely ceremonial event in an age when snow gauges across the Sierra provide digital readings every day.
—Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2024
This could lead to serious environmental problems as the creatures tromp through fragile ecosystems, outcompete native species and deposit enormous amounts of feces in waterways.
—Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Nov. 2023
Christopher McDougall’s Born to Run spurred thousands to tromp through the woods barefoot.
—Sheon Han February 9, Longreads, 9 Feb. 2023
And these toadlets, which tromp about the mountainous cloud forests of Brazil, are found in leafy habitats where larger ones are not, Pie said, suggesting that their petiteness is in some way essential to their survival there.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 15 June 2022
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Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2024
This could lead to serious environmental problems as the creatures tromp through fragile ecosystems, outcompete native species and deposit enormous amounts of feces in waterways.
—Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Nov. 2023
Christopher McDougall’s Born to Run spurred thousands to tromp through the woods barefoot.
—Sheon Han February 9, Longreads, 9 Feb. 2023
And these toadlets, which tromp about the mountainous cloud forests of Brazil, are found in leafy habitats where larger ones are not, Pie said, suggesting that their petiteness is in some way essential to their survival there.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 15 June 2022
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“Tromp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tromp. Accessed 15 Nov. 2024.
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