tramping
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of tramping
Example Sentences
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With a name like "Devil’s Tramping Ground," there’s no wonder why locals and tourists might be a little spooked.
From Fox News • Oct. 5, 2021
Tramping boots stomp against wooden floors, bunks creek as their inhabitants fling their bodies around, and an urgent, sleep-fogged crescendo of angry whispers is building in the gloom.
From The Guardian • Jan. 21, 2018
Tramping these post-industrial zones of makeshift enterprise, neglect and dilapidation, “bashed and bedraggled by the times”, the solitary heroine summons other rivers from her atlas of memory.
From Economist • Jan. 18, 2018
Tramping through damp, knee-high grass and purple wildflowers recently, Mr. Cutter pointed to old rock walls and thorn bushes, which he described as natural deterrents to intruders.
From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2015
Tramping is too easy with all this money.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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