TRAVERSE in a Sentence

traverse

 v.  go through or across, often under difficult conditions

1  He could traverse the bridge in the shadow of the cart.

Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D'AUSTERLITZ BEARS C...

2  Javert reached the bridge in season to see Jean Valjean traverse the small illuminated spot on the other side of the water, leading Cosette by the hand.

Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT

3  Or chance decreed that Marius should traverse Rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau between Enjolras and Courfeyrac.

Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—MARIUS' ASTONISHMENTS

4  Hard years; difficult, some of them, to traverse, others to climb.

Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS POOR

5  Marius had risen, and was staring in a sort of stupor at this being, who was almost like the forms of the shadows which traverse dreams.

Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—A ROSE IN MISERY

6  He found a means to traverse the throng and to pass the bivouac of the troops, he shunned the patrols, he avoided the sentinels.

Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER I—FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS

7  Great public assassinations, political and religious butcheries, traverse this underground passage of civilization, and thrust their corpses there.

Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER

8  obliged to traverse the boys' court in order to reach the parlor.

Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—JAVERT

9  At the bottom of the ravine he found water which he was obliged to traverse.

Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS...

10  D'Artagnan ran home immediately, and although it was three o'clock in the morning and he had some of the worst quarters of Paris to traverse, he met with no misadventure.

The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 23 THE RENDEZVOUS

11  I have but a field or two to traverse, and then I shall cross the road and reach the gates.

Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII

12  Looking through the window, I saw him traverse the garden.

Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI

13  The old man frequently stretched his eyes ahead to gaze over the tract that he had yet to traverse.

Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble

14  I suppose it took her a minute or so to traverse the place, but to me she seemed to shoot across the room like a rocket.

The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In III

15  I traversed all Russia; I was a long time an inn-holder's servant at Riga, the same at Rostock, at Vismar, at Leipzig, at Cassel, at Utrecht, at Leyden, at the Hague, at Rotterdam.

Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XII

1  When you traverse this field alone, be careful of the bull.

2  You could not now traverse the gallery, once so hushed, nor enter the front chambers, once so tenantless, without encountering a smart lady's-maid or a dandy valet.

3  The film is thus structured as a race against time adventure in which odd couple protagonists Joy and Sadness must traverse disparate locales in order to return home.

4  Having descended a staircase, traversed a portion of the house below, and succeeded in opening and shutting, without noise, two doors, I reached another flight of steps.

5  Till, emerging from the total and somewhat dreary silence pervading that portion of the house we had traversed, we came upon the hum of many voices, and presently entered a wide, long room.

6  With an outsize extravaganza that reached deep into the repertory of classical music and ballet, traversed the sights and sounds of the world's largest geopolitical expanse, soared into outer space and swept across millenniums of history in a celebration of everything from czarist military might to Soviet monumentalism, a swaggering, resurgent Russia turned its Winter Olympic aspirations into reality on Friday night.

7  Stanley traversed the continent from west to east.

8  These shoes, bound pieces of denim with soft soles designed to leave no trace in the Arizona desert, have been lost or abandoned by illegal immigrants traversing Mr Chiltern's 50,000-acre cattle ranch.