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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of traipse.

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Examples

  • Palmer told the jury that when he called police, the responding officers "traipsed" through the area and acted "non-professional."

    Police defend their handling of Levy investigation Keith L. Alexander 2010

  • Palmer told the jury that when he called police, the responding officers "traipsed" through the area and acted "non-professional."

    Police defend their handling of Levy investigation Keith L. Alexander 2010

  • The man who first found some of Chandra Levy's remains in Rock Creek Park testified in D.C. Superior Court Wednesday that the police officers who responded to his call "traipsed" up and down the site, making light of the find and acting unprofessionally.

    Man who found Levy's remains testifies Washington Post Editors 2010

  • For the past two weeks an overwhelmed and under-numbered contingent of unarmed Arab League monitors traipsed around Syria at the beck and call of Assad's handlers to monitor Assad's compliance with his promise to stop the shooting, yet over 400 more Syrians were murdered as the monitors stood helplessly by.

    Amb. Marc Ginsberg: Can Assad's "Iron Fist" Be Broken? Amb. Marc Ginsberg 2012

  • For the past two weeks an overwhelmed and under-numbered contingent of unarmed Arab League monitors traipsed around Syria at the beck and call of Assad's handlers to monitor Assad's compliance with his promise to stop the shooting, yet over 400 more Syrians were murdered as the monitors stood helplessly by.

    Amb. Marc Ginsberg: Can Assad's "Iron Fist" Be Broken? Amb. Marc Ginsberg 2012

  • He traipsed through Death Valley to study puzzling microbial crusts known as desert varnish, which might be another model for extraterrestrial life.

    Is There Anybody Out There? Carl Zimmer 2011

  • This time, after they had traipsed around a sharp bend in the path, Kira stopped walking and turned to face him.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011

  • She marveled at the Spanish girls, who wore enough makeup to entirely coat their eyelids, and who traipsed through the cobblestones on spindly, towering boots that came up past their knees, talking and laughing with each other, their eyes fixed on their cell phones.

    Klondike Kelli Trapnell 2011

  • Lise Bruneau and Helen Pafumi are giggly delights as the Pigeon sisters, the lusty English lassies of the second act (of three); with their mod-colored dresses and broad double-entendres, they seem to have traipsed in from an Austin Powers movie.

    At Theater J, a graceful and nuanced revival of classic 'Odd Couple' Nelson Pressley 2010

  • For the past two weeks an overwhelmed and under-numbered contingent of unarmed Arab League monitors traipsed around Syria at the beck and call of Assad's handlers to monitor Assad's compliance with his promise to stop the shooting, yet over 400 more Syrians were murdered as the monitors stood helplessly by.

    Amb. Marc Ginsberg: Can Assad's "Iron Fist" Be Broken? Amb. Marc Ginsberg 2012

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