Definitions

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  • noun the act or process of traveling from one place to another.

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  • verb Present participle of journey.
  • noun gerund of journeying

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  • noun the act of traveling from one place to another

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Examples

  • “Work,” he says, reading a text message, his expression journeying through increasing stages of concern.

    Left Neglected Lisa Genova 2011

  • “Work,” he says, reading a text message, his expression journeying through increasing stages of concern.

    Left Neglected Lisa Genova 2011

  • In 2006's Lonely Planet, Rosefeldt himself plays a bandana-wearing backpacker on an impossible quest for the authentic Indian experience, journeying from the desert through Mumbai's slums and on to a Bollywood movie set over and over again.

    Artist of the week 110: Julian Rosefeldt Skye Sherwin 2010

  • Through my life I was weaned in journeying to death

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • After journeying from the Holy Land back to his own small village, he finds his nightmare is just beginning.

    The Jester: Summary and book reviews of The Jester by James Patterson. 2003

  • In Ac 18: 18, 19, Paul, in journeying from Corinth to

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • The stroller toiling on his own account, "padding the hoof," as he called journeying on foot -- a small bundle under his arm, containing a few clothes and professional appliances -- wandered from place to place, stopping now at a fair, now at a tavern, now at a country-house, to deliver recitations and speeches, and to gain such reward for his labours as he might.

    A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Dutton Cook 1856

  • The constant journeying, which is hard to keep track of as written, may become even more confusing on screen in a "wait, we just got here, why are we leaving? oh, wait that was the other group that just stopped but they're leaving too" kind of way.

    What if HBO doesn't pick up the series? 2008

  • Burton, already cloyed with civilization, conceived the idea of journeying, via Zeila in Somaliland, to the forbidden and therefore almost unknown city of Harar, and thence to Zanzibar.

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

  • It was while staying at Bombay as Mr. Lumsden's guest that Burton, already cloyed with civilization, conceived the idea of journeying, via Zeila in Somaliland, to the forbidden and therefore almost unknown city of Harar, and thence to Zanzibar.

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton Wright, Thomas, 1859-1936 1906

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