tramp
Example Sentences
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“Consider the Consequences” is a breezy, ironic tramp through the social rituals of the interwar period.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
Then, “step would follow step until we should have established justice and abolished alike the tramp and the millionaire.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2023
The near silence of the hall was occasionally broken as the officers standing vigil changed, with the precise tramp of boots echoing through the room.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2022
In this atmospheric novel, the pursuers and their prey tramp past chilly lakes beneath snow flurries and starry skies.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2022
Beth started, leaned forward, smiled and nodded, watched the passer-by till his quick tramp died away, then said softly as if to herself, “How strong and well and happy that dear boy looks.”
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
Vocabulary lists containing tramp
"Of Mice and Men"
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"Paul Revere's Ride" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"
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