traipse
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But I still had to traipse to the group bathrooms and showers and couldn’t eat or drink there.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
“I had to come downstairs late at night in my pajamas to a kitchen filled with six people and traipse through them,” Glusac, a writer, said.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 22, 2025
A traipse to London is no longer a necessity.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2024
We know that doesn’t happen from the first scene of the story, which rolls out afterward as a traipse through The Captain's memory.
From Salon ● May 27, 2024
“They just want an excuse to traipse through here. And of course, they’d love to get their hands on Papi.”
From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez
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George Cukor’s black-and-white vision traipses its heroines through dress fittings, manicures and facials, day drinking and backstabbing all the way, save for an interruption by a Technicolor fashion show.
From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2025
The staging, which can seem cluttered and breathless in the early going, traipses through these seedy locales with a theatrical swiftness that captures the milieu that bred the syncopated rhythm of the Jazz Age.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2024
Before that day, her regular walks included traipses to the Mall and around the Capitol.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 4, 2022
Every hour or so, a crew traipses the paths to collect them.
From Washington Times ● May 26, 2018
Like “An Unfinished Piece,” “Country Life” traipses between tragedy and farce.
From New York Times ● May 4, 2018
In search of someone to teach him the art, Francis traipsed around Los Angeles looking for an internship.
From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2025
After all, that is exactly what Mamdani was doing as he traipsed from Throwing Fits to Derek Thompson to Charlamagne tha God.
From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2025
In 2021, he traipsed for five months and 2,000 miles between London, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Dublin and Belfast; before climbing Ben Nevis, Snowdon and Scafell Pike.
From BBC ● May 30, 2025
Within hours of the mid-morning ribbon cutting, dozens of children traipsed through the play areas, seniors were deep into a bingo game and families lined up for a Little League baseball ceremony.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2025
Chiltington and the others traipsed off to have breakfast, but Kyle and Akimi stayed with the holographic librarian.
From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein
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As the first ray of sun hit on an unexpectedly frosty August morning, a few hundred just-graduated Ukrainian paratroopers were traipsing across a corn and rapeseed field, preparing for their first jump.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
Everyone has an era in which they can reel off the details of every final - those childhood-turned-teenage years when the kits, colours, goalscorers and captains traipsing Wembley's steep steps are etched in the memory.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
So in order to fly the tricolore in Milan, they would have had to give up their multimillion NHL salaries and spend a couple seasons traipsing around the Alps for virtually nothing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
The kind of bowl you crave after traipsing home through slushy streets with cold fingers.
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2025
“I’ve been seeing you traipsing around for a year now,” he’d said.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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