How to Use traipse in a Sentence

traipse

verb
  • I traipsed all over town looking for the right dress.
  • I'm too old to go traipsing around Europe.
  • But the men aren’t asked to keep traipsing across the stage in lingerie.
    Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Just keep a garbage can handy outside so folks don’t have to traipse in and out of your home.
    Dana McMahan, The Courier-Journal, 7 July 2020
  • Dua Lipa traipsed around Paris this spring with a black one.
    Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2024
  • Or for strangers traipsing in and out in dirty shoes, for that matter.
    Dana McMahan, The Courier-Journal, 10 May 2018
  • Still, Clark put her fears aside and joined the masses who traipsed to the Mall for the day’s showstopper.
    Mary Claire Molloy, Washington Post, 4 July 2023
  • To play, the couple’s three children had to traipse through the master bedroom to get to the backyard.
    Emily Young, latimes.com, 12 July 2019
  • With so much rain, traipsing around in nature in the last year could be like walking on a soaked sponge.
    Julia Rentsch, baltimoresun.com, 18 Aug. 2019
  • Deer, red fox and coyotes can be spotted traipsing around the park.
    Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 28 June 2024
  • What followed was a medley of hits that traipsed by so quickly that some were easy to miss.
    Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Technicians doing the work will not need to traipse through the home’s living areas to do the work.
    Hartford Courant, 4 Feb. 2023
  • Think lots of fans traipsed through the music room during open houses?
    Lauren Beale, latimes.com, 4 June 2018
  • From lifeguards at the pool to the caddies traipsing the golf course, cute boys were simply one of my favorite things.
    Ree Drummond, Country Living, 6 June 2017
  • Prada sprinted so that Emily in Paris could traipse around France in a red beret.
    Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 22 Dec. 2021
  • This year, like every year, a group of Swiss will traipse up through the mountains to the Rhone Glacier, hauling huge white blankets.
    Rafi Letzter, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2018
  • Traipsing to the penalty box can drain the energy Nashville needs to keep pace with the Penguins.
    Teresa M. Walker, The Seattle Times, 2 June 2017
  • As the horse traipsed through the brush, the smell of the cut plants was sweet, vegetal, unmistakable: These agaves were ready to be distilled.
    Tucker Harris, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2024
  • But the seeming ease of traipsing down a short trail right off the highway still entices many of the unprepared.
    Rebecca Worby, Outside Online, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Along with his son and a detachment of men, Antoine traipsed around the forested countryside in search of the beast.
    Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 26 June 2017
  • Along with his son and a detachment of men, Antoine traipsed around the forested countryside in search of the beast.
    Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 26 June 2017
  • Who wants to traipse around San Francisco in stilettos?
    George McCalman, SFChronicle.com, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Going to the ballpark is a load more fun, though those traipsing off to see their teams play in Queens or the Bronx would surely disagree.
    Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The sound of wind howled on a speaker as the women lifted their heavy skirts to traipse over the tall grass of the field where the half-naked bodies of the mother and daughter were found.
    Amy Guthrie, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2019
  • Mahaney traipsed around in the dark, photographing buildings and cars caked with layers of snow.
    Coralie Kraft, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2019
  • On a recent day, a steady stream of patients traipsed through the door, took seats and flipped through magazines, awaiting their turn.
    Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2017
  • The result is a plethora of curious and clever machines that are beginning to traipse and hop all over the place.
    Matt Simon, WIRED, 28 June 2018
  • This was Wade Boggs on the back of a horse traipsing through Yankee Stadium.
    Jeff Metcalfe, azcentral, 26 Dec. 2019
  • But reminders of Lynnette slowly appeared everywhere: in the small snack shop at the airport; along the traffic-dense roadways; and even while walking among throngs of tourists traipsing down a main street in search of food.
    Tykesha Spivey Burton, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 July 2024
  • But subway riders have to traipse through roads and grassy patches of business park land to get to some of those locations, as most of the current infrastructure there is built for car commuters.
    Dan Belson, Baltimore Sun, 25 June 2024

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