How do you use Traipse in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like shlep or walk, plus the exact meaning.
Traipse meaning
- To walk in a messy or unattractively casual way; to trail through dirt.
- To walk about, especially when expending much effort, or unnecessary effort.
- To travel with purpose; usually a significant or tedious amount.
Using Traipse
- The main meaning on this page is: To walk in a messy or unattractively casual way; to trail through dirt. | To walk about, especially when expending much effort, or unnecessary effort. | To travel with purpose; usually a significant or tedious amount.
- Useful related words include: shlep, walk.
- In the example corpus, traipse often appears in combinations such as: traipse through, to traipse, traipse up.
Context around Traipse
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 5 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Traipse
- In this selection, "traipse" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, souta, obnoxious, media, halfway and too stand out and add context to how "traipse" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include allowed to traipse up those and and media traipse through the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "traipse" sits close to words such as aami, aat and abada, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with traipse
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Powerless to resist, we traipse up the steps. (8 words)
The general public haven’t been allowed to traipse up those steps recently, though. (14 words)
New public toilets are to be built on the Isle of so tourists don't have to traipse too far. (20 words)
In a bid to stop the exploitation, the Government has relaunched its annual Operation Karetu that tries to make thousands of young holiday goers who traipse to the islands each year aware of how they could be exploited. (38 words)
In 2017, I persuaded several of my friends in the United States to join me in Nebraska to enjoy the spectacle without forcing them to traipse halfway across the globe. (30 words)
Over the next four days, about 100,000 people in Barcelona are expected to traipse through the halls of Mobile World Congress, one of the tech industry’s biggest events. (30 words)
Example sentences (12)
As I traipse through this new sexually liberated landscape, it's really bugging me that this is still on my to do list.
Suzume and Souta traipse all around Japan shutting these magical portals, with the teen just phoning and texting her aunt to confirm she's okay.
Though Jim's slightly obnoxious traipse through Aziraphale's shop offers a solid dose of comedy, things aren't all good.
Dignitaries and media traipse through the pine forest on the north-eastern slopes of Mt Stromlo on the morning of 19 February 1973 to open the war-time capsule.
In 2017, I persuaded several of my friends in the United States to join me in Nebraska to enjoy the spectacle without forcing them to traipse halfway across the globe.
In a bid to stop the exploitation, the Government has relaunched its annual Operation Karetu that tries to make thousands of young holiday goers who traipse to the islands each year aware of how they could be exploited.
The general public haven’t been allowed to traipse up those steps recently, though.
New public toilets are to be built on the Isle of so tourists don't have to traipse too far.
Over the next four days, about 100,000 people in Barcelona are expected to traipse through the halls of Mobile World Congress, one of the tech industry’s biggest events.
You make your sex life sound like a traipse through a cornfield, except instead of ears of corn, there are giant dicks everywhere and they’re coming just for you.
Letting the Trump family traipse through the Gulf making business deals with sheikhs will get this county into entanglements we'll never get out of.
Powerless to resist, we traipse up the steps.
Common combinations with traipse
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- traipse through 6×
- to traipse 4×
- traipse up 2×