Example Sentences

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Everyone has an era in which they can reel off the details of every final - those childhood-turned-teenage years when the kits, colours, goalscorers and captains traipsing Wembley's steep steps are etched in the memory.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

So in order to fly the tricolore in Milan, they would have had to give up their multimillion NHL salaries and spend a couple seasons traipsing around the Alps for virtually nothing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

The kind of bowl you crave after traipsing home through slushy streets with cold fingers.

From Salon • Dec. 16, 2025

Between August and September, the bear was spotted in Sylmar before returning to the Santa Susana Mountains and eventually traipsing into Malibu, where she was captured on Pepperdine University campus security footage.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 16, 2025

“No. We were led here, and here my looking ends. I can’t go traipsing through the state like some old fool, searching out psychics. I’m not meant to do it and I won’t.”

From "Missing May" by Cynthia Rylant