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jaunt

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verb

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Recent Examples of jaunt
Noun
Winter is coming, and that means curtailing my cruising, but the joys of jaunting around on this sweet ride should keep me warm even as the weather grows cold. WIRED, 29 Nov. 2024 Abrams in a white gown hugged Swift tightly and then bowed before jaunting down the catwalk to her exit point in the middle of the diamond. Bryan West, USA TODAY, 17 Nov. 2024
Verb
There’s also an off-property wine tasting jaunt, the Four Seasons Pritchard Hill Experience. Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025 So five months ago, Stapleton bought a prone paddle and started training, first with smaller treks along the pier, then longer jaunts along the coastline, clocking more than 452 miles of training in recent months. Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 16 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for jaunt
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jaunt
Noun
  • Shore excursions are designed to maximize time in the historic capital, but the result is often an exhausting day.
    David Nikel, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Picking an exact landing site will take some time, although NASA will place the mission in the south pole region of the moon where ice and other critical minerals may be available for astronauts to use for future excursions.
    Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • These proclaimed the Midpeninsula Wine Trail an easy way to get your wine fix without trekking to Wine Country.
    Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The common consensus is that some of the earliest Homo sapiens trekked thousands of miles from Africa and across the Middle East before reaching the Balkans.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Despite being signed to the culture-changing label Sub Pop for four albums in the 2000s, Fruit Bats never achieved the same level of acclaim as many of their labelmates, like the Shins and Sleater Kinney, and Johnson disbanded the collective at the end of its 2013 tour.
    Daniel Kohn, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Bargatze has released six comedy specials, hosted two episodes of Saturday Night Live and sold millions of stand-up tour tickets.
    Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Although the park attracts millions of nature-loving visitors every year, terrestrial cell phone signal quickly wanes once one wanders off populated areas and away from main roads.
    Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Wildlife officials euthanized a black bear this week after the animal wandered into a Dollar General in northern New Jersey and bit a woman.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Advertisement Travel to the country once limited essentially to pilgrimage and business travel, opened with a tourist e-visa in 2019 and has since become an engine of jobs and investment.
    Ali Shihabi, Time, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Next year will mark the culmination of its Jubilee Year celebrations, and through January, the city will continue to host pilgrimage events, public art installations, and expanded museum programming.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 4 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The firm has its own security force, armed and unarmed, that roam its numerous downtown properties, according to Copaken Brooks principal Jon Copaken.
    PJ Green September 20, Kansas City Star, 20 Sep. 2025
  • It’s built under the canopy of a large oak tree, chickens roam the property, and a creek runs along the grounds.
    Elly Leavitt, Vogue, 20 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Oklahoma’s Vintage Roadside Americana And Oktoberfest Road tripping in Oklahoma may be less about fall foliage and more about exploring the Sooner State’s nostalgia and charm.
    Emese Maczko, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Focusing on the lifestyle factor that most trips you up is likely to have a greater impact on your health, London said.
    Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Join Uniworld’s 12-night India’s Golden Triangle & The Sacred Ganges voyage from New Delhi to Kolkata, from $5,879 per person including all meals, unlimited beverages (including fine wines & spirits), daily excursions, airport transfers, and WiFi.
    Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025
  • Tristan told stories about the sea, voyages around the Cape of Good Hope, where the waves were high as houses.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 June 2025

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