traverse

Example Sentences

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The bridge pinches off faster than light could traverse it, rendering it non-traversable.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2026

Older residents who need mobility aids such as walkers or wheelchairs are left without options to traverse their own neighborhoods because of the broken sidewalks, she told The Times afterward.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

The fate of the global oil markets—and the global economy—rests on whether ships can traverse the 22-mile-wide waterway from the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman.

From Barron's • Mar. 11, 2026

Shipping traffic remains throttled in the Strait of Hormuz, a trade route off Iran’s coast that fully a third of the world’s seagoing oil exports traverse in a normal year.

From Slate • Mar. 11, 2026

In some town or city somewhere their wives and children live while the husbands traverse the nation carrying every kind of food and product and machine.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck