road-trips

Definition of road-tripsnext
present tense third-person singular of road-trip

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for road-trips
Verb
  • The endangered species migrates each summer from Mexico into the southernmost reaches of the United States.
    Susan Montoya Bryan, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Showers and storms are possible starting in the early morning Thursday and lingering throughout the day as the system migrates eastward.
    Lauren Bostwick, CBS News, 5 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • In the second—and maddest—section of the poem, the narrator, having fled in panic to France, roams the Breton shoreline.
    James Parker, The Atlantic, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Scarlet wakes up in the Otherworld, an endless, arid landscape with an ocean for sky where a dragon roams.
    Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • When Elizabeth wanders down below and sees the Creature, the two are mesmerized by one another.
    Jenelle Riley, Variety, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Where is that strange, clueless child who wanders from cause to cause, Greta Thunberg?
    Bobby Zirkin, Baltimore Sun, 8 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Even his father Roman Skornikov — an Olympian for Uzbekistan who coaches his son with his wife, Tatiana Malinina — thought the idea of doing four-and-a-half revolutions in one jump was crazy.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2026
  • While Paul helped recruit Super Bowl champion coaches Mike Holmgren and Pete Carroll, Jody Allen oversaw the hiring of current coach Mike Macdonald, after making the decision to move on from Carroll in 2024.
    Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 8 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Kachina rambles for 5 miles but the most vibrant color is found on the first half of the hike.
    Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The residence rambles over more than 14,500 square feet with 13 bedrooms and nine and a half baths.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Esty Shapiro, a 19-year-old woman from a Hasidic Jewish sect in Brooklyn, pockets a secret wad of cash, picks up a passport, and hops on a plane to Berlin, all set to the tense soundtrack of a thriller.
    Stephanie Bai, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2026
  • View gallery - 4 images Electric passenger ferries offer a promising alternative to polluting fossil-fuel guzzlers given the relatively short hops these vessels need to make per trip.
    Stefan Ionescu February 04, New Atlas, 4 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Between the river’s source, entrusted to an order of Orthodox nuns, and its southern delta, where caviar bound for the Kremlin is harvested, the author journeys through a defiant country transformed by war, sanctions, and reinvigorated patriotism.
    The New Yorker, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Twelve-year-old Atari (Koyu Rankin) soon journeys there aboard a miniature Junior Turboprop to reunite with his bodyguard pup, Spots (Liev Schreiber).
    James Mercadante, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • The resulting rambles through town, aboard motorcycle taxis on which all three pile up along with the drivers, become, for Folarin, trips through his own memories.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Boat trips with the hotel’s fleet of luxury liners or a heli ride take you island-hopping to Hydra and Spetses.
    Jemima Sissons, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Jan. 2026
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“Road-trips.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/road-trips. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.

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