journey
undertake a journey or trip
How often you will meet it
Rank 870 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 21,060 times across 191,625 chapters — 0.010% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
verb
- undertake a journey or trip also: travel
- travel upon or across also: travel travel the oceans
noun
- the act of traveling from one place to another also: journeying
journey in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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So Happy Jack started on his long journey around the open field.
The Adventures of Prickly Porky · Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess · Chapter 1
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I seemed to see that journey in the cab, those dances, those terrible between-dances ...
The Little Nugget · P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse · Chapter 1
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A journey which he was compelled to undertake for M. de Thaller consumed the balance of the week.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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He filled a bottle with the healing water, and then continued his journey in the best of spirits.
The Yellow Fairy Book: The Grateful Beasts · World Traditions (Celtic, Norse, Asian & Persian) · Chapter 1
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The Negro, for a long time after starting on the journey to Paris, did not realize his plight.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1