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Example sentences for "traversing"

Lexicographically close words:
traversable; traverse; traversed; traverser; traverses; travertine; travestied; travesties; travesty; travois
  1. The following morning found me on the other side of the St. Francis, traversing the swamp which Uhl and I had had such trouble to cross nine months ago.

  2. Traversing a savage gorge, we soon come to the marble quarries of Chassal and Molinges, also, at the former place, ochre quarries.

  3. Her active agents are placed in Southern Abyssinia, and are traversing the borders of the Great Bahr-el-Abiad; while the northern shores of Africa will speedily be her own.

  4. His intentions are sufficiently decided, and he has no means of traversing our schemes.

  5. We were traversing the boulevard, and I cried all at once-- "'Get to ground!

  6. By this regulation the labour of traversing from one street to another, in search of any article which the purchaser might wish to have a choice of, was avoided*.

  7. Near Berisal I crossed one which had recently come to rest, traversing the road.

  8. But in traversing a pass you normally ascend the bottom of a glacier valley, and the fine views are ahead and on both hands.

  9. The sun goes down on my second day in the train; as we are traversing a fine valley with rolling hills on either side.

  10. We are now traversing a rolling desert, sometimes whirling round a bluff in our rapid descent, or crossing a dry water-course on trestles, the features of the scenery every moment changing.

  11. If there be no such network of railway traversing the length and breadth of the southwestern section of China, Canton could not be developed up to our expectations.

  12. After traversing a number of dark streets, we suddenly entered this enormous edifice, whose six rows of boxes blazed with tapers.

  13. But I soon roused myself, and testified some impatience to see the great chapel, at which we at length arrived, after traversing another labyrinth of cloisters.

  14. Traversing the desert of locusts, I hailed the Adriatic, and plunged into its bosom.

  15. Traversing a wild thicket, we soon regained the shore, where I rambled a few minutes whilst the peasant went for the boatmen.

  16. For these ten days past have I been traversing Lapland: winds whistling in my ears, and cones showering down upon my head from the wilds of pine through which our route conducted us.

  17. After traversing many long alleys, brown with impending foliage, I emerged into a green opening on the brow of the hill, and seated myself under the statue of Ceres.

  18. The isothermal line of 57° and 59°, after traversing the country between the Black and the Caspian Seas, inflects abruptly toward the South again, reaching the Caspian.

  19. Traversing the sunny castle-garth, we pass a circular receptacle formed in the ground for melting the lead aforesaid.

  20. Meanwhile, traversing a broad green meadow, we approach the ivy-wreathed walls and turrets of the castle.

  21. Traversing the pebbly beach, we pass near to Lydstep Point, a picturesque headland curiously scarped by disused limestone quarries.

  22. Anon we diverge seawards again, and, traversing the grassy mounds of a prehistoric camp, we look down into the depths of a profound abyss known as the Cauldron.

  23. A country lad opens a gate giving access to a rough meadow, flanked by the remains of barbican walls and ruined bastions; traversing which we presently draw rein before the broad, landward front of the castle.

  24. Some of the Arabs believe that it was built over a sepulchre; others, that it is a monument to mark the spot where the Khalif Omar pitched his tent after traversing the Valley of Jehoshaphat.

  25. It is much the same delight as that felt in traversing a winding woodland road, intensified many fold.

  26. After traversing a distance of perhaps 200 miles, it empties its pure waters into the Hellgate river, just west of Missoula.

  27. His faculty of traversing dense jungles and windfalls is equally astonishing.

  28. All that night he trudged on in a westerly direction, traversing a road which was hardly deserving of the name.

  29. He had strayed from the road now, and was traversing a strip of moorland which ran between it and the river.

  30. Already you have learned something of the difficulties of traversing a field of ice, and I am sure, therefore, you will acquiesce in my wish to continue our explorations while the water is still open.

  31. Of the balloon not a vestige remained, and contrary to previous computation, the comet had merely grazed the earth, and was traversing the regions of space, again far away!

  32. I thought, major, that it was not unlikely you were in ignorance of the fact that both Ceuta and Gibraltar have been traversing the solar regions on the surface of a comet.

  33. Through many a month of toil and trouble did this host pass while traversing the land of the savage in scattered bands.

  34. They were traversing at the time a jungle so dense that it would have been impassable but for a Kafir-path which had been kept open by wild animals.

  35. For five days did they struggle up this short glen; two of these days being occupied in traversing only three miles of a rugged defile, to which they gave the name of Eildon Cleugh.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "traversing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.