How to Use tramp in a Sentence

tramp

1 of 2 verb
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  • And then workers have to hoist tools onto their backs and tramp through the brush.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2022
  • Two and a half hours later, the workers tramp over the porcine corpses, shooting those that aren’t already dead.
    — Elizabeth Barber, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
  • On June 23rd the residents of Turkey’s biggest city will be tramping to the polls all over again.
    — The Economist, 21 June 2019
  • The walls were spattered, from baseboard to ceiling, in blood and so much pooled on the floor that the police had to build a makeshift bridge to get to the body without tramping through it.
    — Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 23 July 2019
  • About a third of it is from outside, either blown in or tramped in on those offensive shoe bottoms.
    — Mark Patrick Taylor, CBS News, 26 May 2023
  • Television crews tramped across the Schoos' lawn, as well as the lawns of their extended family members.
    — Steve Lord, Aurora Beacon-News, 20 Dec. 2017
  • In The Road it’s been extinguished altogether; father and son tramp toward the nothing of a lifeless sea.
    — Joy Williams, Harper's Magazine, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Katie Holmes has spent the past couple of weeks tramping through Manhattan in an accretion of unusual shoes.
    — Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Squeezed in among the migrants were backpackers from England, Australia, Japan, and Brazil, who would soon be drinking coconut cocktails on the same beaches that some of these refugees would tramp across.
    — Jason Motlagh, Outside Online, 19 July 2016
  • To view these almost-overgrown messages and art today, our small group tramped through prickly underbrush and tried to imagine the hard, solitary lives the sheepherders led.
    — Sara Lessley, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Each day, people from all over Russia tramp up several flights of stairs in an old apartment building in central Moscow.
    — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Sep. 2022
  • On pavements where Soviet workers once tramped to shifts at the Uralmash heavy-machinery plant, babushkas now lay out their wares: apples, mushrooms, smoked fish.
    — The Economist, 3 Oct. 2019
  • In the meantime, Strong will continue tramping around fields in Vermont, looking for more of the striking birds that have become a significant part of his research.
    — Brian MacQuarrie, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2019
  • Malls in Dubai now have Chinese on their signs alongside Arabic and English, with tour groups tramping through and high-end shoppers targeting luxury stores.
    — Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2020
  • A group of young boys dressed in old-fashioned regimental uniforms tramped up a staircase and strode purposefully toward him, wooden rifles slung over their shoulders.
    — Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2016
  • Home to Regan is beyond the reach of modern technology, tramping the loamy forest foraging for mushrooms, wood sorrel and tiny wild strawberries.
    — Deborah Reid, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2019
  • Last year a tourist died after walking off a pedestrian boardwalk into a thermal area, a group of Canadian adventurers tramped around in the Grand Prismatic Spring, then publicized it.
    — Lew Freedman, idahostatesman, 6 May 2017
  • Some huts originated as outposts for miners, hunters, foresters, or shepherds, others as way stations for alpinists, scientists, tourists or tramping club members.
    — New York Times, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Over the next several years the German businessman, who made his fortune in trading raw materials for ammunition production, tramped around the Mediterranean.
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 6 Apr. 2017
  • Most backcountry tramping involves climbing mountains using tree roots as a ladder or shimmying across precarious three-wire bridges (or just plain old river crossings) and wading through mud up to your chest.
    — Liz Carlson, Outside Online, 24 June 2019
  • The directors spend long stretches of Cargo on characters tramping around the outback, or surveying their surroundings, or otherwise standing still.
    — Tasha Robinson, The Verge, 21 Apr. 2018
  • And then workers have to hoist tools onto their backs and tramp through the brush.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2022
  • Two and a half hours later, the workers tramp over the porcine corpses, shooting those that aren’t already dead.
    — Elizabeth Barber, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
  • On June 23rd the residents of Turkey’s biggest city will be tramping to the polls all over again.
    — The Economist, 21 June 2019
  • The walls were spattered, from baseboard to ceiling, in blood and so much pooled on the floor that the police had to build a makeshift bridge to get to the body without tramping through it.
    — Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 23 July 2019
  • About a third of it is from outside, either blown in or tramped in on those offensive shoe bottoms.
    — Mark Patrick Taylor, CBS News, 26 May 2023
  • Television crews tramped across the Schoos' lawn, as well as the lawns of their extended family members.
    — Steve Lord, Aurora Beacon-News, 20 Dec. 2017
  • In The Road it’s been extinguished altogether; father and son tramp toward the nothing of a lifeless sea.
    — Joy Williams, Harper's Magazine, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Katie Holmes has spent the past couple of weeks tramping through Manhattan in an accretion of unusual shoes.
    — Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Squeezed in among the migrants were backpackers from England, Australia, Japan, and Brazil, who would soon be drinking coconut cocktails on the same beaches that some of these refugees would tramp across.
    — Jason Motlagh, Outside Online, 19 July 2016
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tramp

2 of 2 noun
  • Wouldn't that be amazing, if Kim brought back the tramp stamp?
    — Charles Manning, Cosmopolitan, 26 July 2017
  • All eyes are drawn to the two tramp-like figures who command the stage.
    — Marilyn Stasio, Variety, 22 Aug. 2021
  • To steal a line from his book: While many think that the world is full of tramps, there are still a few ladies around.
    — Derek Blasberg, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Aug. 2011
  • Those who blame the victims - who call them whores and tramps and sluts - are as guilty as those who commit the acts.
    — Bob Sims, AL.com, 16 Apr. 2018
  • And finally, from the column of false negatives, the tart is a bit of a tramp.
    — Beth Segal, cleveland, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Victor Moore has one of his most priceless roles as the jolly tramp, Mac.
    — Jack D. Grant, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Dec. 2022
  • Mostly isolated in the Yukon, the little tramp cooks a shoe, falls in love, hangs from a cliff and strikes it rich.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Rent snowshoes from the resort’s Skyline Lodge and tramp around frozen Puffer Lake.
    — National Geographic, 23 Jan. 2020
  • The little tramp joins a circus, befriends a bareback rider and walks the tightrope.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2021
  • The flower girl becomes ill and the tramp takes it upon himself to provide for her.
    — Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Either way, the woman comes out the other end a victim and a champion, but as a tramp and a hussy too.
    — Benjy Hansen-Bundy, Glamour, 30 May 2018
  • Watch BigDog tramp through snow, get kicked, and otherwise abused---just to get up and keep going.
    — Sarah Zhang, Discover Magazine, 6 Mar. 2012
  • After all, those tramps weren’t dreaming of walking in the sun in Alabama.
    — Ken Capobianco, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2019
  • Send tips, comments, gypsies, tramps, and thieves to ‪‪Rebecca_Keegan@condenast.com‪. Follow me on Twitter @thatrebecca.
    — Rebecca Keegan, HWD, 17 Oct. 2017
  • The two writers took the long way home, stopping to talk with conjurers, tramps, convicts, and backwoods preachers all over the South.
    — Casey N. Cep, The New Yorker, 7 May 2018
  • Lock in the childhood spirit this summer with a big backyard trampoline of your own, like the Merax 12-foot tramp.
    — Sara Hendricks, USA TODAY, 25 June 2020
  • The second time netted $1,500 in gold and silver coins — and eventual life sentences because the crash killed a train fireman and a tramp.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Asian tramp snails, shown on a coffee leaf with rust fungus, can consume large amounts of the coffee rust before the disease can damage the plant, a new study shows.
    — Esther Horvath, National Geographic, 11 Mar. 2020
  • Maddox trains in trampoline and tramp wall skills, the latter of which is a Cirque du Soleil event that involves trampolining while using a wall.
    — Ramona Sentinel, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Gary was driving us to our first attempt at an extended tramp, a night in a bush hut a two-hour hike into the Orongorongo Valley.
    — Longreads, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Today, while the ornate 1920s library resounds with the tramp of tourists' feet, in the private former servants' quarters to the south, the sounds are of small children and the skitter of terriers' paws.
    — Stephen Patience, ELLE Decor, 6 Dec. 2016
  • An anonymous Depression Era saying put it this way: a tramp wanders and dreams, a hobo wanders and works, and a bum neither wanders nor works.
    — Austin Hewitt, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Outside the old man’s shop, an odd-looking cricket is dressed like a tramp, speaking in a folksy tongue that’s definitely not Italian.
    — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Be prepared to go without a shower or electricity for the duration of your tramp.
    — Ali Wunderman, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Mercedes Diaz tramps into a muddy soybean field and runs her brightly manicured fingers through the limbs of dozens of knee-high plants.
    — Marla Broadfoot, Scientific American, 22 Aug. 2017
  • Led by my father, a forester, the annual tramp through snowy forests of Snoqualmie Pass near Seattle was an event that meant the season had officially arrived.
    — Erin Kirkland, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Then Paul Brotherton, still searching for homeless tramps with Jerry Lucey, keyed his radio for the first time, answering his chief from somewhere high up in the warehouse.
    — Sean Flynn, Esquire, 9 Mar. 2017
  • Her family received calls and letters calling her a drug addict, a tramp, a communist.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2021
  • The leaf springs which were adequate with Falcon engine torque began to give trouble with axle tramp and spring wind-up during development with the 289-cu in Mustang V-8, so the springs were beefed up too.
    — Car and Driver, 17 Apr. 2020
  • The movie thus plays like a throwback in several respects, back to an era when audiences dutifully flocked to theaters to see the likes of Robert Taylor or Alan Ladd tramp around in armor.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 14 Oct. 2021

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