Traverse

//tɹəˈvɝs//

"Traverse" in a Sentence (32 examples)

On December 7th 1941 Japanese fleet consisting of 6 aircraft carriers: Akagi, Kaga, Hiryū, Sōryū, Shōkaku, and Zuikaku and additional two line battleships: Hiei und Kirishima were spotted on the traverse to the Oahu island, Hawaii.

Unfamiliar terrain can be difficult to traverse.

There are no inhabitants of this land of despair. A band of Pawnees or of Blackfeet may occasionally traverse it in order to reach other hunting-grounds, but the hardiest of the braves are glad to lose sight of those awesome plains, and to find themselves once more upon the prairies.

They had to traverse an uncharted mountain range.

Like their counterparts on land, autonomous ships are emerging as a new way to traverse the world’s oceans.

That's an area that's impossible to traverse on foot.

She says trucks are unable to traverse the treacherously narrow roads.

Traverse City is in the divot between the pinky finger and the ring finger.

Bumpy sidewalks can be difficult to traverse for people in wheelchairs or parents with strollers.

At the entrance of the king, the first traverse was drawn, and the lower descent of the mountain discovered, which was the pendant of a hill to life, with divers boscages and grovets upon the steep or hanging grounds thereof.

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Than sholde ye see there pressynge in a pace / Of one and other that wolde this lady see, / Whiche sat behynde a traves of sylke fyne, / Of golde of tessew the fynest that myghte be […]

At the entrance of the king, / The first traverse was drawn.

He will succeed, as long as there are no unlucky traverses not under his control.

At night, when the Federal guns slowed their fire, the men created new traverses and bombproofs.

The whole care of the vessel rested, therefore, upon me, and I was obliged to direct her by my former experience, not being able to work a traverse.

He will have to traverse the mountain to get to the other side.

What seas you travers'd, and what fields you fought! / Your country's peace how oft, how dearly bought!

Here the line is joined by the Colne Valley branch, and both tracks are carried into Haverhill station upon a high embankment from which the town can be seen on the south side. The twin tracks, after traversing a scissors crossover, become the down and up roads through the station, which possesses an extensive goods yard.

The journey is worth an article in itself, but all I can give is a flavour of a railway which traverses a bleak but dramatic coastline that's regularly battered by the elements - especially around Parton, where the line is constantly threatened by the sea.

to traverse all nodes in a network

The parts should be often traversed, or crossed, by the flowing of the folds.

to traverse a cannon

the road traversed the face of the ridge as the right-of-way climbed the mountain

The last run, weary, I traversed the descents in no hurry to reach the lodge.

The well meaning Prieſt ſuffered him to deceive himſelf, fully determined to traverſe his views, inſtead of ſeconding them.

I cannot but […] admit the force of this reasoning, which I yet hope to traverse.

My purpose is to […] traverse the nature, principles, and properties of this detestable vice—ingratitude.

to traverse a board

Without their coſt, you terminate the cauſe; / And ſave th' expence of long litigious laws: / Where ſuits are travers'd; and ſo little won, / That he who conquers, is but laſt undone: […]

paths cut with traverse trenches

Oak […] being strong in all positions, may be better trusted in cross and traverse work.

the ridges of the fallow field lay trauerse

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