Verb (used with object) : A bridge traverses the stream. ,The climbers traversed the east face of the mountain. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : a point in the river where we could traverse. From Dictionary.com.
I’m pretty sure that is ballpark because the season when it is frozen and can be traversed is shortened. From Wordnik.com. [BBC Radio 4: The Battle for Influence – Overselling Climate Change « Climate Audit] Reference
That so much has been traversed, is a goad. From Wordnik.com. [Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative, by William Gilmore Simms, Esq. In Two Volumes: Vol. II. I. Southern Passages and Pictures; II. Historical and Dramatic Sketches; III. Scripture Legends; IV. Francesca Da Rimini] Reference
My staff and I traversed the country raising funds. From Wordnik.com. [Dillard University, five years after Katrina] Reference
Two roads were traversed by the troops in this move. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
I believe that the road to love is more swiftly traversed. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He traversed a courtyard where the grass grew among the stones. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
She was dreaming thus, in the shade traversed by arrows of light, when. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
One fine night I set out and traversed the road that led to her house. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The carriage, having traversed the fields bordered with willows, went up. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Thus pondering, he traversed much ground, hardly knowing where he was going. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
She traversed the square; her steps followed the happy impatience of her desire. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
They walked on, and shouted without ceasing, and thus traversed a portion of the way. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
This they traversed, and at length worked their way once more to the edge of the cliff. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
The road to the Volt has been long and rocky, and GM has traversed it in fits and starts. From Wordnik.com. [GM flashes back to its electric future] Reference
At present, the Middle Kingdom is traversed by relatively few cars -- only about 20 million. From Wordnik.com. [THE HIGH ROAD] Reference
It was traversed at last, and he descended the slope to the place from which he had started. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
They traversed several groups of people and bent their steps in the direction of the chateau. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
I will as far as possible procure horses from the regions of country traversed by our cavalry. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
While thus conversing, they had traversed the forest, and emerged on the hill overlooking Vivey. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Most of its 376 acres are heavily wooded, traversed by a pair of two-lane roads and a bike trail. From Wordnik.com. [Washington National Opera singer's slaying leaves family with questions] Reference
She traversed the Place de la Concorde with the same convulsive haste, and passed toward the bridge. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
They traversed, in silence, the picture-gallery, the vestibule, and then mounted the main staircase. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
M. de Camors traversed this room with feelings we shall not attempt to describe and gained the street. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
For some hours they traversed the waters, carried swiftly on by the united forces of the wind and tide. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
He returned to society and traversed the midst of miscellaneous parlors, greenrooms, and Bohemian society. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
These traversed the wood separating us, without escort, and directed him to push forward; but he did not come. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
The distant rumbling of the thunder announced the end of the storm; but a few flashes still traversed the horizon. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Constantinople time, arriving there in one hour and thirteen minutes over the route they traversed in the morning. From Wordnik.com. [The Dominion in 1983] Reference
My nightmare traversed oceans and continents and returned as a lump in my throat three days after the Mumbai attacks. From Wordnik.com. [‘It Is Never Over, Never Escaped’] Reference
It seems then that everything is dark about us, and our endless night is traversed by morbid visions, and peopled with phantoms. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
That distance, traversed over generations, isn't just about the family's financial or professional successes, Tancil Holmes said. From Wordnik.com. [For descendants of slaves, a powerful connection] Reference
He gazed over the woods and the clearings, which he had so often traversed light of heart and of foot, and felt mortally unhappy. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
At present, the Middle Kingdom is traversed by only eight cars per 1,000 people, compared with 940 per 1,000 in the United States. From Wordnik.com. [The High Road] Reference
At last the young pair arrived at the banks of a stream, which traversed the path and had become swollen by the recent heavy rains. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Then, recovering, they continued their way, traversed the lower court below the terraces, and disappeared in the direction of the lake. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
For 45 minutes, Philippe Petit traversed a steel wire strung over the canyon between the North and South Towers of the World Trade Center. From Wordnik.com. [He Had New York At His Feet] Reference
Thereafter, Aimard struck something like form, was poetic if restrained in the Larghetto, and traversed the final rondo with playful grace. From Wordnik.com. [BBCSO/Nott] Reference
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