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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Small secluded house, with turkeys traipsing through the yard in the morning, deer and bunnies at dusk, and bats at night.
    Carla Lalli Music, Bon Appetit, 10 July 2017
  • Small secluded house, with turkeys traipsing through the yard in the morning, deer and bunnies at dusk, and bats at night.
    Carla Lalli Music, Bon Appetit, 10 July 2017
  • To celebrate the occasion, 90min have traipsed through the archives to dig up the match report from that fateful day.
    SI.com, 16 Oct. 2019
  • This shoe is perfect for traipsing around Rome or simply going to the office.
    Todd Plummer, Travel + Leisure, 13 June 2023
  • Look at the way that his characters traipse through the grammar of toxic disaster.
    K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 30 Dec. 2022
  • And on off days, the relatively unknown cast was free to traipse around Prague, haunting local pubs in search of cheap beer.
    Ashley Spencer, Vulture, 11 May 2021

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