How to Use travel in a Sentence

travel

1 of 2 verb
  • The pain traveled down his back.
  • The birds are traveling south for the winter.
  • The order is traveling by plane.
  • That car was really traveling when it passed us.
  • His job requires him to travel frequently.
  • She enjoys traveling around Europe.
  • They traveled cross-country from New York to California.
  • That has to do with how the waves travel through the crust.
    Allison Chinchar, CNN, 1 May 2021
  • So, for the past year, the two of us have traveled around the globe to talk to them.
    Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Your next step is to travel and race the rest of the people in the world.
    Tyler Dragon, The Enquirer, 11 July 2020
  • The bus Galindez was traveling broke down on the side of the road.
    Stefano Pozzebon and Marilia Brocchetto, CNN, 24 Dec. 2017
  • The key to traveling with cheese is to take a whole cheese.
    Lauren Sanchez, Vogue, 6 July 2018
  • But the craft appeared to be traveling much faster than the jets of the time.
    Sarah Scoles, Wired, 3 Mar. 2020
  • Soni helped the workers travel to the White House and stage a hunger strike.
    Sarah Stillman, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2021
  • And then as the week goes on, have ourselves ready to travel.
    Tom Green | [email protected], al, 13 Sep. 2021
  • If lightning strikes the tree, the ground charge from the strike could travel into you.
    Staff Reports, The Arizona Republic, 31 Aug. 2023
  • If one of your goals is to travel more in the coming year, this post can help.
    Geoff Whitmore, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Our plan is to travel by boat but to eat, sleep, and explore on land.
    John Huey, Southern Living, 10 July 2020
  • Godley didn't have to travel very far to join the Brewers.
    Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 June 2021
  • Epstein and Maxwell took her in, gave her a job and traveled with her around the world.
    Mola Lenghi, CBS News, 31 Aug. 2019
  • Colbert isn’t the first late-night host to travel to Russia.
    Laura Bradley, VanityFair.com, 27 June 2017
  • New ideas and trends travel faster around the globe now, and food is no exception.
    Alex Canter, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
  • If people were willing to travel, to be able to do that as well.
    Eric Johnson, Recode, 12 Nov. 2018
  • And there's talk about doing it all in one city, so the players don't have to travel from place to place.
    Kirsten Chuba, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Apr. 2020
  • It’s pretty clear this is meant to imply that the Flash can time travel.
    Ryan Britt, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2021
  • As the forest warms, the carbon dioxide its soils emit will travel far across the globe.
    Drew Pendergrass, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2020
  • Those who must travel on days six to 10 should wear a mask for their entire trip.
    Helen Regan, CNN, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Campbell knew from the start that traveling this much would come at a cost.
    Amy Pedulla, STAT, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The calf can then be released into the ocean once her pod travels nearby, John said Thursday at the news conference.
    Andrew Jeong, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2024
  • But there is also an interesting cultural clash angle as the two women come back to rural Denmark after having travelled around the world.
    Annika Pham, Variety, 6 Apr. 2024
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travel

2 of 2 noun
  • The book discusses the future of travel in outer space.
  • Air travel was affected by the storm.
  • She doesn't enjoy foreign travel.
  • We extended our travels for another week.
  • The essence of travel, to me, is being catered to in that kind of way.
    Kaitlin Menza, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Aug. 2021
  • And that time travel is a big theme of the current saga.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 20 Sep. 2022
  • This is the travel-sized wagon that dreams are made of.
    Jamie Spain, Good Housekeeping, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Keep up-to-date on the latest in food, travel, the great outdoors … and more.
    Fox News, 17 Sep. 2019
  • People can look at my travel records and see that that is not the case.
    Emma Colton, Washington Examiner, 31 Mar. 2021
  • And yes, the whole gut health thing comes in handy after a long day of travel too.
    Aliza Abarbanel, Bon Appétit, 28 Aug. 2019
  • The brain then moves to the new surface and travels from state to state along this surface.
    Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 15 Aug. 2018
  • For most, when trapped midair at the three-point line, the play would’ve ended in a travel or turnover.
    Jayda Evans, The Seattle Times, 20 Feb. 2019
  • Summer air travel is back in full swing—and so are the headaches that come with it.
    Jake Smith, Glamour, 20 July 2022
  • Our shared love of travel allowed us to forge a new bond.
    Stefanie Ellis, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2019
  • There is no mileage fee added for travel less than 60 miles.
    Ben Thomas | [email protected], al, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Any longer, and the future of air travel could be altered for good.
    The Economist, 15 Mar. 2020
  • What are your travel plans for this weekend and the summer?
    CNN, 23 May 2022
  • The physics of space travel are a non-negotiable thing.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 11 July 2021
  • The airport expected March 23 and March 30 to be the peak travel days for spring break.
    Journal Sentinel, 24 Mar. 2024
  • Jill Biden’s pace of travel is on par with the president's.
    Darlene Superville, Chron, 3 July 2021
  • Global travel is back—and so are the jet-setters who do it in the utmost style.
    Todd Plummer, Robb Report, 5 May 2022
  • That’s a way to combine trips and save money on travel.
    Randy Johnson, Star Tribune, 6 Nov. 2020
  • This bar comes in a chic and travel-friendly tin, and will deeply hydrate your body.
    Tatjana Freund, ELLE, 25 Aug. 2022
  • And the questions shifts from whether travel is possible to where to go next.
    Ashley Stahl, Forbes, 16 May 2022
  • Much has changed since those golden days of air travel.
    Leena Kim, Town & Country, 4 Dec. 2022
  • This polyester bag fits skis up to 200 cm and is ideal for air travel and busy weekends on the slopes.
    Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 22 Feb. 2023
  • But it was disbanded in the 1970s, a victim of cheap air travel.
    Lucy Alexander, Robb Report, 23 Apr. 2023
  • Make sure all your travel-sized liquids fit in one quart-sized bag.
    Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 30 Mar. 2023
  • With the new partnership, Priceline has become the first and only online travel booking site to sell Breeze flights, the airline shared with Travel + Leisure.
    Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Almost immediately Boeing and the aviation industry was hit by a near halt in air travel caused by the pandemic, which caused demand for planes to come to a near halt.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 5 Apr. 2024

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