traverse

Example Sentences

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Each passing week tankers can’t traverse the narrow waterway, the world loses 70 million barrels of oil, as well as a host of other products vital for chip manufacturing, medical equipment and consumer goods.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 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

Iranian media reported on Monday that Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corp. had closed the Strait of Hormuz, promising to fire on any ship that attempts to traverse it, according to a Reuters report.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 2, 2026

Disregarding army notices alerting them to landmines, men and women traverse the dry, open ground that now stands where the ancient forest once grew.

From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026

I know bits of The Flower Drum Song, which I sing as we traverse the courtyard and mount the steps to the bathhouse.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides