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Recent Examples of jaunt
Noun
Korean Air is said to be dropping its longest 747 flight, the 7,200-mile jaunt from Seoul to Atlanta, in March 2025. Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025 This could be one of the best short loops in the park, as the 3-mile jaunt passes through a spring supporting an oasis before climbing to the top of the peak for a view of the southern portion of the park. Graham Averill, Outside Online, 27 Dec. 2024
Verb
But for a sip of the old optimism, consider wrapping your Green Line jaunt with a detour to The Cove (Christian name: the Cove Lounge), one of the Near South Side’s best dive bars and one of the most quintessentially Chicago nights out anywhere. Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2024 And the rest of their whirlwind jaunt together through Pyongyang was equally as romantic: inspecting troops, petting and feeding white horses, lavishing each other with gifts. Syl Sobel, Baltimore Sun, 1 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for jaunt
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jaunt
Noun
  • Elite status in the casino program, on the other hand, comes with the same perks as Pearl and other preceding levels, plus exclusive benefits like $1,000 in onboard credit and a $500 shore excursion credit.
    Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2025
  • That first day on the Northwest Passage is far and away the most colorful, the tundra dappled with the autumn colors and shore excursions to view the two-billion-year-old stromatolites at Port Epworth, an area nominated for UNESCO World Heritage status.
    Joe Yogerst, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • The team then trekked into Svalbard’s mountains and set up timelapse cameras at 13 den sites from 2016 through 2020 and in 2023.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Past cohorts have trekked across to France to train on Alpha Jets, although Canada is set to take over this leg.
    Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 22 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The tour will officially launch on May 24 with a the Fuego Fuego Festival in Montreal, followed by a date at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Toronto, followed by the start of U.S. dates on May 28 at The Anthem in Washington, D.C.
    Thania Garcia, Variety, 10 Mar. 2025
  • The Counting Crows have announced a massive world tour in support of their upcoming first album in over a decade, Butter Miracle, the Complete Sweets!
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Let your mind wander over the prompts without judging what comes up.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
  • For nonmembers, who can enter at 9 a.m., the event represents a great time to wander the gardens, buy plants and seek inspiration from gardening experts.
    Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel, 6 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • People pilgrimage here to sample the best of traditional rural Portuguese cuisine in a delightful countryside setting.
    Isabelle Kliger, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
  • And hundreds were killed outside Mecca in a stampede during the annual hajj pilgrimage in 2015.
    N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Stray cats are all over the nation, roaming people's backyards and sometimes redistributing themselves to a new home.
    Krystal Nurse, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2025
  • About 1,800 pandas live in the wild, roaming mountain ranges in the Chinese provinces of Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu, WWF says.
    Chris Lau, CNN, 28 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Sure, trips to the salon for cut, color, treatment and styling provide some form of hair and scalp care, but only on a cosmetic level.
    Bianca Salonga, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Denver then countered a White-to-Kornet lob and a White 3-pointer on back-to-back Boston trips with consecutive threes from Braun and Murray, who was far more effective over the final three quarters.
    Zack Cox, Hartford Courant, 2 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The uncrewed lander, named Blue Ghost, made its touch down early Sunday on the lunar surface after more than six weeks voyaging millions of miles through the cosmos.
    Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2025
  • The Star Princess will debut its inaugural cruise season in the Mediterranean, move to the Caribbean and then Alaska voyages in the spring of 2026.
    Kanika Talwar, WWD, 13 Feb. 2025

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“Jaunt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jaunt. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.

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