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
But now the hordes of tourists disgorged by the railway every few minutes are taking their toll, tramping across the pastures towards the lake and crushing the flowers.
From BBC • Jul. 25, 2024
By all accounts, she was happiest tramping through the mud in Scotland, where she hung out in Balmoral but also drove her own Land Rover until fairly recently.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 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
With the Judge’s sons, hunting and tramping, it had been a working partnership; with the Judge’s grandsons, a sort of pompous guardianship; and with the Judge himself, a stately and dignified friendship.
From "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London
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