tramping
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of tramping
Example Sentences
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Only in the past couple of years, Sansom explained, did watchful staff members start swooping in to “borrow” Bamberger’s chain saw whenever they caught him tramping around the property with one.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026
After poring over existing records and tramping through the English countryside, it was "incredible" to establish there could be two million, she told me.
From BBC • Jun. 29, 2022
Still, she spends every Sunday morning tramping across hillsides to reset traps and refill poison stations, just to be safe.
From New York Times • Jun. 5, 2022
“I had no choice,” Dennis, 42, said, while tramping across the acreage to take stock of his losses.
From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2022
Colonel Cathcart began tramping back and forth reflectively in the narrow corridors left between his bushels of plum tomatoes and the desk and wooden chairs in the center of the room.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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