Example Sentences

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He has picked his way across roads and railways, forded local streams and swum across the River Danube.

From BBC • Sep. 22, 2025

Akil continues down the road that Blume's 1975 novel forded, accurately capturing adolescence's hidden longing and confusion.

From Salon • May 21, 2025

Klemperer and his colleagues, including collaborators in China, traversed dirt roads and forded streams to collect samples from some 200 natural springs across nearly 1000 kilometers of southern Tibet.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 9, 2024

Over the May holiday celebrating Montenegro’s 12-year independence, we hiked lightly traveled but well-signed paths, forded streams, crossed under waterfalls and picnicked on lakeside boulders in fragrant pine groves.

From New York Times • Aug. 22, 2018

He probably understood that if he was patient and waited, the river would eventually drop to a level where it could be safely forded.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer