TRAMP in a Sentence

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103 example sentences for TRAMP, such as:

1. Such was the beginning of his life as a tramp.
2. The tramp was arraigned on a charge of stealing.
3. She tramped up the beach to where he was sitting.
4. The tramp of horses' hoofs was heard along the road.
5. Poor Jurgis was now an outcast and a tramp once more.

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 Meanings and Examples of TRAMP
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
tramp
 v.  travel or wander through; cleanse clothes in water
Classic Sentence: (97 in 7 pages)
1  As he strode along through the snow the sense of such meanings glowed in his brain and mingled with the bodily flush produced by his sharp tramp.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  There was a ruffle of drums from the street below, the tramp of feet, the admiring cries of coachmen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  They went past, looking neither to left nor right, so silent that had it not been for the steady tramp of feet they might all have been ghosts.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
4  There was a quick command from Captain Jaffery on the front porch and the rapid tramp of feet.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
5  After a while I see a man coming across the stubble, and when he got close I see it was a tramp.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VI
6  So Ole jumped down and crawled under one of the wagons for shade, and the tramp got on the machine.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VI
7  She seated herself, for she was tired from her long tramp; and she began to rock gently and smooth out the folds of her silk parasol.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XX
8  Such was the beginning of his life as a tramp.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
9  Poor Jurgis was now an outcast and a tramp once more.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 27
10  She was awakened by loud shouts and outcries, the tramp of horses' feet, and the baying of dogs.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
11  The tramp of horses' hoofs was heard along the road.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
12  Behind the company the sound of wheels, the creaking of springs, and the tramp of horses' hoofs were heard.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
13  In the deathlike stillness only the tramp of horses was heard.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII
14  The adjutants and battalion and regimental commanders mounted, crossed themselves, gave final instructions, orders, and commissions to the baggage men who remained behind, and the monotonous tramp of thousands of feet resounded.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XIV
15  He touched his horse, gave the word of command, and immediately, hearing behind him the tramp of the horses of his deployed squadron, rode at full trot downhill toward the dragoons.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XV
Example Sentence:
1  We heard the tramp of men coming to the door, and heard them begin to fumble with the pad-lock, and heard a man say: "I TOLD you we'd be too soon; they haven't come -- the door is locked."
2  The tramp was arraigned on a charge of stealing.
3  She tramped up the beach to where he was sitting.
4  I could just make out a tall, pale, shadowy figure tramping through the undergrowth.
5  They came tramping through the kitchen leaving dirty footmarks.
6  We spent a week tramping the streets of Rome, looking for movie locations.