Example Sentences

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The volunteers are traversing villages, including in rebel-held territories, advising residents on preventive measures, as well as on seeking early treatment when symptoms appear.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026

These female queens are traversing gender boundaries as well as putting on outrageously entertaining performances, often in the face of prejudice and misogyny, even within queer culture.

From The Guardian • Jul. 10, 2017

Brown believes that we are traversing the arc of justice even now, when the movement feels imperceptible.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 2, 2017

“I think we need some über knowledge of how these individuals are traversing the system.”

From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2011

Her active agents are placed in Southern Abyssinia, and are traversing the borders of the Great Bahr-el-Abiad; while the northern shores of Africa will speedily be her own.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 by Various