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Synonyms for journey
Synonyms: Noun
expedition, passage, peregrination, travel(s), trek, trip
Synonyms: Verb
peregrinate, pilgrimage, tour, travel, trek, trip, voyage
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Examples of journey in a Sentence
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a long journey across the country She's on the last leg of a six-month journey through Europe. We wished her a safe and pleasant journey.Verb
She was the first woman to journey into space. an intense yearning to journey to distant lands
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Farrington was unable to make the journey to the clinic by himself and was helped by locals who carried him to a hospital, the report showed. — Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, "Bahama father tells story of losing his 5-year-old son in Hurricane Dorian storm surge: report," 6 Sep. 2019 As a result, the e-Beetle can store enough energy for a journey of over 150 km after charging for around an hour. — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, "Vintage VW Beetles and Buses Are Going Electric," 6 Sep. 2019 After all, no one thought the World Wide Web would come out of the same journey that led to the Large Hadron Collider. — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, "Can Spaceflight Save the Planet?," 6 Sep. 2019 The one-week interruption from school was well worth it for Radich who made the journey with her mother and father. — Emmett Hall, sun-sentinel.com, "All that glitters is gold for Fort Lauderdale diver Juliet Radich," 5 Sep. 2019 Her heroic journey through things no one should have to endure. — Ken Armstrong, ProPublica, "Netflix Series Based on Our Work Explores Costs of Not Believing Rape Victims," 5 Sep. 2019 Power began her journey with a visit to the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. — Daniel Bessner, The New Republic, "The Fog of Intervention," 4 Sep. 2019 That was perhaps the gnarliest part of the 2,058-mile journey for Dobbs, Timothy McGee of Longwood, Florida, and Troy Anzalone of Arlington, Nebraska. — Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, "From Llewellyn Glacier to Emmonak, these men in motorboats traveled the length of the Yukon River in less than 25 days," 31 Aug. 2019 Tarek El Moussa's insane success story had a pretty humble beginning—and tumultuous journey. — Elizabeth Gulino, House Beautiful, "Tarek El Moussa Reveals How He’s Kept Himself So Positive All These Years, Despite Everything He's Gone Through," 28 Aug. 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Verb
New Yorker The Underground Railroad’s complex history After Colson Whitehead’s magnificent novel The Underground Railroad debuted, there was renewed interest in the history of the abolitionist network that helped slaves journey North to freedom. — Ellen Mcgirt, Fortune, "The New York Times Launches the 1619 Project: raceAhead," 14 Aug. 2019 Over a 10-day period in August, hundreds of thousands of young people journeyed to Bethel, New York, and under rainy skies helped give birth to the legend of counterculture paradise at Woodstock. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "Woodstock, Manson and the march to Utopia," 13 Aug. 2019 Charlotte Tregger Judd 1/19/26-8/9/19 of Manchester, CT, formerly of East Hartford, born in Bridgeport, journeyed home on Friday surrounded by her loving family. — courant.com, "Charlotte Tregger Judd," 11 Aug. 2019 Two comfort dogs from North Texas journeyed west this week to console survivors and first responders from the mass shooting in El Paso. — Maria Elena Vizcaino, Dallas News, "Comfort dogs from North Texas soothe shooting survivors, caregivers in El Paso," 10 Aug. 2019 Kortzfleisch sneaks back onto the Moon on a spaceship jury-rigged by Russian engineer Sasha (Vladimir Burlakov) and urges Obi Washington (Lara Rossi), the daughter of the first film’s protagonists, to journey to the center of the Earth. — Samantha Nelson, The Verge, "In the sci-fi spoof Iron Sky: The Coming Race, Alien Hitler rides a T-Rex to war," 17 July 2019 The intervening years have seen Swift ascend to the highest echelon of pop stardom, but now the singer’s fans will have the opportunity to journey back to those early days. — Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, "Five early Taylor Swift songs are getting limited-edition vinyl releases," 11 July 2019 Showcase journeyed to the national event in Ohio in 2017 and to Palm Springs, California, last year. — Jack Marrion, Houston Chronicle, "Showcase, local gymnasts shine at Gymnastics For All National Championships," 24 June 2019 In its short life of nine years, journeying through thousands of miles of dense fishing grounds, the whale had endured at least one vessel strike and three entanglements in fishing gear. — David Abel, BostonGlobe.com, "As right whales surge north, one death too many," 15 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'journey.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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