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How to use traverse in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb, adverb

Traverse means a route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent. Example: “He will succeed, as long as there are no unlucky traverses not under his control.”

Examples of traverse by meaning

nounSomething that thwarts or obstructs.

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

nounThe zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.

  • Nautilus, had made history by completing the first undersea traverse of the North Pole.1990 August, John Bockstoce, “Changing Images of the Northwest Passage”, in National Geographic, volume 178, number 2, page 15

nounIn trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.

  • At night, when the Federal guns slowed their fire, the men created new traverses and bombproofs.1994, Stephen R. Wise, Gate of Hell: Campaign for Charleston Harbor, 1863, page 160

verbTo travel across, to go through, to pass through, particularly under difficult conditions.

  • He will have to traverse the mountain to get to the other side.
  • The twin tracks, after traversing a scissors crossover, become the down and up roads through the station, which possesses an extensive goods yard.1951 September, B. D. J. Walsh, “The Sudbury and Haverhill Line, Eastern Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 619

verbTo visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.

  • to traverse all nodes in a network

verbTo rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.

  • to traverse a cannon

verbTo (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate.

  • 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.

verbTo plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.

  • to traverse a board

More sentences with traverse

  • Such a ship was too big to traverse the C&D, whose locks could not accommodate it.From the entry C&D
  • A course was plotted to traverse the ocean.From the entry course
  • Sarner's being a baby about his resurrection.” “I traversed the black mountain.2023 August 14, Dominic Dierkes, “The Ping Pong Table” (17:50 from the start), in Solar Opposites, season 4, episode 1, spoken by Korvo…. From the entry expense
  • Reaching Taiwan would mean traversing Chinese territorial waters that surround Hong Kong.2020 August 31, Shibani Mahtani, Nick Aspinwall, Ryan Ho Kilpatrick, “Hong Kong refugees captured at sea spent months plotting daring dash…. From the entry Sai Kung
  • An athletic course in which Mario must traverse rotating lifts and stretch blocks.2018, Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia, Milwaukie: Dark Horse, →OCLC, page 65. From the entry athletic
  • They advanced after grenading the next traverse, much like the British did.2015, Gordon L. Rottman, The Hand Grenade, page 46. From the entry grenade
  • Anterior segment tumors traverse aqueous outflow pathways, preexisting emissarial canals, or perforations in the cornea.2012, Aparna Ramasubramanian, Carol L Shields, Retinoblastoma, →ISBN, page 216. From the entry emissarial
  • In the program given above, tree is constructed and is traversed in inorder, preorder and postorder traversal.2006, ISRD Group, Data Structures Using C, Tata McGraw-Hill Education, page 254. From the entry preorder
  • The traverse miscloses by +0.44 ft in latitudes and +0.20 ft in departures.2003, Paul A. Cuomo, Surveying Principles for Civil Engineers, page 47. From the entry misclose
  • But no one had ever traversed the Northwest Passage under wind power alone.1989 May, Jeff MacInnis, “Braving the Northwest Passage”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 586. From the entry arctic
  • It made him work harder as he traversed the low parallel bars to practice his walking.1981, Jerry Ahern, The Opium Hunter. From the entry retone
  • Men employed locally acted as dorymen and as assistants in traversing.1971 January 26, Bennett L. Smith, “Introduction”, in Geology of the Rencontre East Area, page 3. From the entry doryman
  • To the north at An-hsi the route divides to traverse the Lop and Taklamakan deserts.1959, Basil Gray, Buddhist Cave Paintings at Tun-huang, University of Chicago Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 17. From the entry Tun-huang
  • The photo plate is traversed so that each lenslet tracks along the dotted line.1958 August, Charles M. Huggins, “An Analytical Evaluation of the Lenticular-Plate Cinemicrograph and the Image-Dissection Process”, in…. From the entry lenslet
  • Sail-propelled trolley used by lifeboatmen for traversing the Spurn Head Railway.1940 December, “The Spurn Head Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 655, photo caption. From the entry lifeboatman
  • This mountain system traverses Tibet from the west to the east and is parallel with Himalaya.1934, Sven Hedin, A Conquest of Tibet, New York: National Travel Club, →OCLC, pages 239–240. From the entry Transhimalaya
  • Tarzan had been wont to traverse the Rue Maule on his way home at night.1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “What Happened in the Rue Maule”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt…. From the entry berth
  • The entrances to the works through the gorge are protected by the traverses G.1913, Gustave Joseph Fiebeger, A text-book on field fortification, page 44. From the entry redout
  • Warwick passed through one of the wide brick arches and traversed the building with a leisurely step.1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company…. From the entry step
  • Police said evidence, including footprints, was found where they believe the climbers had begun to traverse the slopes beneath Zurbriggen Ridge.2024 December 6, James Legge, “Three climbers from the US and Canada are believed to have died in a fall on New Zealand’s highest peak”…. From the entry climber
  • As of yesterday, one can already read socmed posts on taking hours to traverse short stretches of highways north and south.2023 April 11, Nigel Paul Villarete, “Cebu's worsening traffic congestion”, in The Philippine Star, →OCLC, archived from the original on…. From the entry socmed
  • I recall a bevy of queenlettes, all besashed and bathing suited, observing the procession having already traversed the route.2020 June 10, Jerome Christenson, “A drum, horses and a parade”, in La Crosse Tribune, volume 117, number 26, La Crosse, Wis., page B3…. From the entry besashed
  • They thus require precise and timed jumps to traverse.2019, S. M. Lucas, V. Volz, “Tile pattern KL-divergence for analysing and evolving game levels”, in Proceedings of the Genetic and…. From the entry athletic
  • As an example of application, we derive a new subgridding method with material traverse, arbitrary grid refinement, and guaranteed stability.2016, Fadime Bekmambetova, Xinyue Zhang, Piero Triverio, “A Dissipative Systems Theory for FDTD with Application to Stability Analysis and…. From the entry subgridding
  • However the cultures were parasynchronous, indicating the nitrous oxide may inhibit cell cycle traverse at points other than M.2012, George Rothblat, Growth, Nutrition, and Metabolism of Cells In Culture, →ISBN. From the entry parasynchronous
  • Use the Iterator pattern to provide a uniform interface for traversing different aggregate structures (that is, to support polymorphic iteration).2011, Amnon H. Eden, Codecharts: Roadmaps and blueprints for object-oriented programs, page 145. From the entry polymorphic iteration
  • Two short pitches up a chimney-crack are followed by a traverse right to the centre of the buttress.2010, Tony Howard, Treks and Climbs in Wadi Rum, Jordan, →ISBN, page 84. From the entry buttress
  • This avoids the problems inherent in ECVS, which merely traverses the circuit (after levelization) and makes the earliest seen feasible move.2008, David Chinnery, Kurt Keutzer, Closing the Power Gap between ASIC & Custom. From the entry levelization
  • The high-level parser then converts that string into XML and traverses it, organizing its sumti into data structures.2005, Brandon Wirick, Lojban as a Tool for Encoding Prose on the Semantic Web (Masters Thesis, California Polytechnic State University)…. From the entry sumti
  • Each taenia traverses one of the following surfaces of the colon: the anterior surface, the posteroinferior surface, and the posterosuperior surface.2004, Janice C. Colwell, Fecal and Urinary Diversions: Management and Principles, page 49. From the entry taenia

Meaning of traverse

  1. noun A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
  2. noun A series of points, with angles and distances measured between, traveled around a subject, usually for use as "control" i.e. angular reference system for later surveying work.
  3. noun A screen or partition.

Full definition of traverse

Questions about traverse in a sentence

How do you use traverse in a sentence?
Traverse is used as a noun, verb and adverb. For example: “He will succeed, as long as there are no unlucky traverses not under his control.”
What is a short sentence with traverse?
“to traverse a board”
What does traverse mean?
Traverse means a route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.

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