TRAVEL in a Sentence

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For TRAVEL, below is one of 419 sentences:
Indignation was loud among the inhabitants of Atlanta and Decatur who were forced to use the road for travel between the two towns.

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 Meanings and Examples of TRAVEL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
travel
 n.  the act of going from one place to another
 v.  make a trip for pleasure
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The trouble with most of us Southerners," continued Rhett Butler, "is that we either don't travel enough or we don't profit enough by our travels.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  It had become the crossroads of travel north and south and east and west, and the little village leaped to life.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
3  When a Southerner took the trouble to pack a trunk and travel twenty miles for a visit, the visit was seldom of shorter duration than a month, usually much longer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  Indignation was loud among the inhabitants of Atlanta and Decatur who were forced to use the road for travel between the two towns.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
5  Beyond that her mind did not travel.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
6  And so he had leisure to muse on all its exquisite details, as a hard worker, on a holiday morning, might lie still and watch the beam of light travel gradually across his room.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
7  Through all this restless July after she had tasted Bresnahan's disturbing flavor of travel and gaiety, she wanted to go, but she said nothing.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
8  What you need is to get away from Dave and travel, yes, and go to every dog-gone kind of New Thought and Bahai and Swami and Hooptedoodle meeting you can find.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
9  At that instant she knew that in running away she had merely hidden her doubts behind the officious stir of travel.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
10  In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
11  When his deep-seeing eyes rested on me, I felt as if he were looking far ahead into the future for me, down the road I would have to travel.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XII
12  As soon as Mrs. Marshall was able to travel she was sent away in deep disgrace.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In III
13  All these have been abandoned, and regular travel is reduced to a minimum.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In VII
14  And then among them some one would "take a shine" to him, and they would go off together and travel for a week, exchanging reminiscences.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
15  were obliged to travel over the roots and holes in the "new."
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
Example Sentence: (209 in 14 pages)
16  So, pack your cycle clips and either pick up a brochure from your local travel agent or call us on freephone.
17  We couldn't induce the old lady to travel by air.
18  Now that she's an air hostess, foreign travel has lost its glamour for her.
19  People who travel by rail still read an immense amount.
20  It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
21  To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
22  To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
23  There are often discounts available for midweek travel.
24  Passes are available for one month's unlimited travel within Europe.
25  They travel to the nearest town on Saturdays for shopping or on Sundays for church.
26  Travel east or travel west, a man's own home is still the best.
27  The best that we find in our travel is an honest friend.
28  The company issues travel vouchers to all managers.
29  Small travel operators are facing bankruptcy.
30  The travel bureau is not so far from here.