Also means
traverse
Usage Note
Sillonner comes from sillon ('furrow') and evokes the image of cutting paths across a surface, as a plow does. It is commonly used to describe travelling extensively across a territory — sillonner la France ('to criss-cross France'). It can also describe roads or rivers that cross a landscape: des routes qui sillonnent la plaine ('roads that cross the plain').
Examples
"Ils ont sillonné l'Europe pendant un mois."
Natural Translation
They criss-crossed Europe for a month.
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