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How to use tramp in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Tramp means the act of walking with heavy steps. Example: “We tramped through the woods for hours before we found the main path again.”

Examples of tramp by meaning

nounThe act of walking with heavy steps.

  • My dear sirs, did you actually imagine that one could not follow every clumsy move you made, with Joolby's low comedy tramp and the other two stealing in like a couple of hired assassins in a penny gaff melodrama?1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London

nounAny ship which does not have a fixed schedule or published ports of call.

  • Then I think I conceive of other worlds and vast structures that pass us by, within a few miles, without the slightest desire to communicate, quite as tramp vessels pass many islands without particularizing one from another.1919, Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, chapter 10
  • Some of these are regular ocean liners; others are casual tramp ships.1924, George Sutherland, Texas Transport Terminal Company v. New Orleans: Dissent Brandeis
  • Shipping of every sort, from passenger liners to ferry steamers, tramps to tugs and trailing barges, feluccas to speedboats and yachts, from warships to caiques, chugs, hoots, glides or churns its way in all directions.1950 July, J. C. Mertens, “By the "Taurus Express" to Baghdad”, in Railway Magazine, page 435

nounA long walk, possibly of more than one day, in a scenic or wilderness area.

  • The starting place for the tramp is reached over a gravel road that begins on Route 3 about a mile south of Gorham spur.1968, John W. Allen, It Happened in Southern Illinois, page 75
  • Speaking of knockout panoramas, if you′re fit then consider doing the taxing, winding, 8km tramp up Mt Roy (1578m; five to six hours return), start 6km from Wanaka on Mt Aspiring Rd.2005, Paul Smitz, Australia & New Zealand on a Shoestring, Lonely Planet, page 734
  • The 1½-hour tramp passes through banksia, gum, and wattle forests, with spectacular views of peaks and valleys.2006, Marc Llewellyn, Lee Mylne, Frommer′s Australia from $60 a Day, page 186

nounOf objects, stray, intrusive and unwanted.

  • Your last delivery of copper ore contained half a hundredweight of tramp metal.2015 September 29 (last accessed), Mining Magazine, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2016

verbTo walk for a long time (usually through difficult terrain).

  • We tramped through the woods for hours before we found the main path again.

verbTo travel or wander through.

  • to tramp the country

More sentences with tramp

  • Functions should use matching variable names for tramp data to improve readability.From the entry tramp data
  • The tramp wore a tatty old overcoat.From the entry tatty
  • The policeman moved the tramp on.From the entry on
  • That one-night stand that some tramp gave him is a gift that keeps on giving — he's had syphilis for years now.From the entry gift that keeps on giving
  • Sirens, soldiers tramping past singing, Luftwaffe engines in the night sky.2020 April 19, Neal Ascherson, “After the crisis, a new world won’t emerge as if by magic. We will have to fight for it”, in The Guardian…. From the entry Luftwaffe
  • Does he make him compete in a bumfight with the tramp who sits outside Londis?2010, Helen Zaltzman, Olly Mann, Answer Me This, page 118. From the entry bumfight
  • Well you'd better think of something because middle-aged tramps aren't cute, they're pathetic.2005, In Her Shoes. From the entry pathetic
  • The tramp would make a living stealing but there would be mutual respect between them.1950, James Blish, Cities in Flight. From the entry bindlestiff
  • The blueberries grew far away and the Old Lady had many a tramp after them.1912, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Old Lady Lloyd”, in Chronicles of Avonlea, Boston: L.C. Page, page 43. From the entry boneache
  • I'm revisiting all my favorite Y2K trends, including slogan tees, trucker hats, wedge flip-flops, and barbed wire tramp stamps.2024 July 25, Meg Donohue, Dale Chong, “Same Same But Different: We're Feeling Bratty This Summer”, in Elle, archived from the original on…. From the entry bratty
  • "Vigilant?" asked the dock tramp, “and what will the mutton shunters be doing whilst we are remaining vigilant?”2016, George Mann -, Associates of Sherlock Holmes. From the entry mutton shunter
  • The tramps scarpered, the street-traders pushing prams scarpered, half of Dublin scarpered as if they all had something to hide.1998, Ardal O’Hanlon, chapter 1, in The Talk of the Town, London: Sceptre, published 1999, →ISBN, page 7. From the entry scarper
  • Same kid who broke crosshairs on firefinder, tramped down nails in bear board and set my binoculars on the hot stove.1977, Edward Abbey, quoting Scotty Beaton, [Lookout logbook of Scotty Beaton], September 11, 1950, quoted in The Journey Home: Some Words…. From the entry bear board
  • A gaycat is a young punk who runs with an older tramp and there is always a connotation of homosexuality.1962, Raymond Chandler, Raymond Chandler Speaking, page 87. From the entry finger man
  • Beattie is a sundown town for tramps since the fire.1946 August 8, J. D. Stosz, “Jay Dee's Column”, in The Marysville Advocate, Marysville, Kansas, via Newspapers.com, page 11. From the entry sundown town
  • I say it is a long tramp, isn't it?"1918, Ethel Penman Hope, Dr. Paul, page 127. From the entry dogged
  • Jean had thought that the prowler might be some tramp who had wandered far off the beaten path of migratory humans.1915, B. M. Bower, chapter 10, in Jean of the Lazy A. From the entry off the beaten path
  • It has been urged, "You are unpracticable; you want a world of tramps--how are you going to live?"1913, Stephen Graham, A Tramp's Sketches. From the entry unpracticable
  • No three tramps that one could have met in a Surrey lane could have looked more hopeless and bedraggled.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter XIV, in The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry bedraggled
  • A “swamper” is a man tramping without his swag, which he entrusts to a teamster to bring on his waggon.1901, May Vivienne, Travels in Western Australia: Being A Description of the Various Cities and Towns, Goldfields, and Agricultural…. From the entry swamper
  • Wallach tramp art rules absolutely, most unusually in a large cupboard that has the mass of a Dutch kast armoire and is painted light green.2007 January 19, Roberta Smith, “Decorative Tradition, Laced With Bursts of Eccentricity”, in New York Times. From the entry kast
  • As far as space is concerned, Mary Lamb finds herself at the farthest margin of society - among tramps - when the novel begins.1999, Pierre François, Inlets of the Soul: Contemporary Fiction in English and the Myth of the Fall, page 186. From the entry margin
  • You have to tramp three or four versts to get to the exhibition of war loot, past Fabergé eggs and the Impressionists.1988, Anthony Burgess, Any Old Iron. From the entry verst
  • "Jesus, what a tramp," he said.1937, John Steinbeck, chapter 2, in Of Mice and Men. From the entry purty
  • I have even read in a book of criminology that the tramp is an atavism, a throw-back to the nomadic stage of humanity.1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXXVI, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz…. From the entry atavism
  • He had two subjects of conversation, the shame and come-down of being a tramp, and the best way of getting a free meal.1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXVIII, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz…. From the entry comedown
  • And to-morrow you shall take me out as early as you like and tramp me and freckle me and dustify me to your heart's content.1924, John Eyton, Expectancy, page 254. From the entry dustify
  • All day long and all night men tramped back and forth, Dostoyevskeian figures in rough garb—and slept there, rested and ate there, held services even.1920, The Nineteenth Century and After, volume 88, page 1102. From the entry Dostoyevskeian
  • As I tramped along, the rearmost of the four, I could not help smiling at the appearance of my three companions in front.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry rearmost
  • If you appear like a tramp or grease-monkey how can you expect to meet the people who are able to support your business.1910, Antonin Gilbert Sertillanges, Jeanne d'Arc et l'Union française - discours prononcé à Notre-Dame le 8 Mai 1910 en la première fête…. From the entry grease monkey

Meaning of tramp

  1. noun The act of walking with heavy steps.
  2. noun A homeless person; a vagabond.
  3. noun A disreputable, promiscuous woman; a slut.

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Questions about tramp in a sentence

How do you use tramp in a sentence?
Tramp is used as a noun and verb. For example: “We tramped through the woods for hours before we found the main path again.”
What is a short sentence with tramp?
“to tramp the country”
What does tramp mean?
Tramp means the act of walking with heavy steps.

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