traverse
verb (used with object)
to pass or move over, along, or through.
had traversed
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past perfectof traverse.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The U.S. military shot down three separate aerial objects over the weekend, roughly one week after shooting down a Chinese surveillance balloon near the South Carolina coast after it had traversed most of the country.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 13, 2023
Minister Nikos Nouris said 94% of the 15,130 asylum-seekers who filed applications with the divided island’s internationally recognized government in the south through August this year had traversed the buffer zone.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 26, 2022
She had managed to bestow upon her painting the power to be truly transportive, taking her audience to depths she alone had traversed.
From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2021
Chin was one of Honnold’s longtime climbing buddies — the two met as members of North Face’s athlete team — who himself had traversed Everest, Annapurna and Meru.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2018
She did not look back now, but went on and on, thinking of the bluegrass meadow that she had traversed when a little child, believing that it had no beginning and no end.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
