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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On day 20 of her journey, Catterall met her in Switzerland after she had traversed “a particularly spicy descent on a sketchy section of via ferrata,” according to Woods’ Instagram.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
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
Over the previous decade, they had traversed the country to disrupt all manner of events, including the funerals of American soldiers and the murdered gay man Matthew Shepherd.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 17, 2020
Inez showed Amari the boundaries of the little settlement—a river, a marsh, and the hills they had traversed earlier.
From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper
