Read full poem →The better man she walks with still,
Though now ’tis not with Fred.
Dictionary Entry
To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare run.
In a Sentence
“To walk briskly for an hour every day is to keep fit.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. walkswalks longwalks one
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Antonyms
Poetry examples for “walks”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →And sure enough beneath the tree
There walks another love with me,
And overhead the aspen heaves
Read full poem →She went from opera, park, assembly, play,
To morning-walks, and prayers three hours a-day:
To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea,
Read full poem →And first a reaper from the field appears: 30
Sweating he walks, while loads of golden grain
O'ercharge the shoulders of the seeming swain:
Read full poem →He starves with cold to save them from the fire;
For you he walks the streets through rain or dust,
For not in chariots Peter puts his trust;
Read full poem →Transformèd, gazes on himself again.
Here aged trees cathedral walks compose,
And mount the hill in venerable rows:
Read full poem →One bent; the handle this, and that the spout:
A pipkin there, like Homer's tripod walks;
Here sighs a jar, and there a goose-pie talks;
Read full poem →Bethel, I'm told, will soon be here;
Some morning walks along the Mall,
And evening friends, will end the year.
Read full poem →Unspotted long with human blood.
War, horrid war, your thoughtful walks invades,
And steel now glitters in the Muses' shades.
Read full poem →For while our cloisters echoed frosty feet,
And our long walks were stripped as bare as brooms,
We did but talk you over, pledge you all