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Collocations for journey - noun

ADJ.

long, marathon | brief, short | outward | homeward, return | onward
The bus driver told us where to change buses for our onward journey.
bus, car, rail, railway, train, etc. | five-mile, four-hour, etc. | comfortable, easy, good, pleasant, safe
I hope you had a good journey. | Have a safe journey.
arduous, awkward, bad, difficult, gruelling, hard, tedious, terrible, tiring, tortuous | dangerous, hazardous, perilous | overland | cross-country | daily | overnight | epic
an epic journey across Africa on foot
wasted
The library was closed when I got there, so it was a wasted journey.
emotional, sentimental, spiritual
He made the emotional journey back to the house he grew up in.

VERB + JOURNEY

go on, have, make
He wasn''t there and we had a wasted journey.
break
We broke our return journey in San Francisco.
begin, set out on | continue, resume
They continued their journey on foot.
complete

JOURNEY + VERB

take (sb)
The journey takes about five hours. | His journey took him across central Asia.
begin | end

JOURNEY + NOUN

time

PREP.

on ~
They were on a journey to the Far East.
~ by
a journey by air/bus/land/rail/sea, etc.
~ across, ~ between, ~ down
the journey down the Rhine
~ from, ~ of
a journey of 300 miles a journey of five days
~ through, ~ to
The bus journey from London to Athens took 60 hours.
~ up

PHRASES

be tired after/from a journey, a leg/stage of a journey
Dawn was breaking as we set out on the last leg of our journey.

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