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How to use itinerant in a sentence

17 example sentences · adjective, noun

Itinerant means habitually travelling from place to place. Example: “The Greek term translated as “apostle” derives from the concept of being sent, thus underlining the missionary and more itinerant nature of the ministry.”

Examples of itinerant by meaning

adjectiveHabitually travelling from place to place.

  • an itinerant preacher or peddler
  • most children in trouble were placed in detention homes, in institutions for the retarded, on wards with psychotic adults, or were left at home to fester there, occasionally seen by an itinerant teacher.1971, Richard Austin King, Clifford Thomas Morgan, Readings for an Introduction to Psychology
  • The Greek term translated as “apostle” derives from the concept of being sent, thus underlining the missionary and more itinerant nature of the ministry.2010, Craig Ott, Gene Wilson, Global Church Planting

More sentences with itinerant

  • Familism was spread in England by Christopher Vittels, an itinerant joiner of Dutch origin.1972, Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down, Folio Society, published 2016, page 15. From the entry familism
  • Itinerant short con and carny hyp men have burned down the croakers of Texas. . . .1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 13. From the entry hyp
  • Over the humblest peon family they wielded supreme sway through their fat itinerant friars.1918, John Lewin McLeish, High Lights of the Mexican Revolution: Some Previously Unwritten History of the Beginning and Growth of…. From the entry third sex
  • The temporary-permanent workers facilitate the itinerant traders’ activities.2012, Gaëlle Lacaze, “Prostitution and the Transformation of the Chinese Trading Town of Ereen”, in Franck Billé, Grégory Delapace…. From the entry Zamyn-Üüd
  • Itinerant priests, “adorators” of God, would have a profound influence on the young Muhammad and his subsequent ministry.2005, Joseph Azzi, translated by Maurice Saliba, “Islam before Islam-Nosrania Sectarianism in Islam”, in David Bentley, editor, The Priest…. From the entry adorator
  • It is no wonder that itinerant agricultural workers travel on the toby and sleep in casual wards between jobs.1931 October 17, Eric Blair, “Hop-picking”, in The New Statesman. From the entry toby
  • Much of this extraction was conducted by itinerant quacks or jacks-of-all-trades who did it as a side line to their business.1929, Howard W[ilcox] Haggard, “‘In Sorrow Thou shalt Bring forth Children’”, in Devils, Drugs, and Doctors: The Story of the Science of…. From the entry jack of all trades
  • Strange copper objects found in western Manchuria and procured by the writer from an itinerant dealer in refuse-copper.1912, Robert Coventry Forsyth, editor, Shantung the Sacred Province of China, Shanghai: Christian Literature Society for China, →OCLC…. From the entry Chungshan
  • He began his career as an itinerant meat wagon driver who sold cut beef to farmers and working-class families along a regular route.2003, Adams Media, Erik Herman, San Francisco Job Bank, →ISBN. From the entry meat wagon
  • Whether we translate them as 'nightwandering wizards' or as 'itinerant diviners and magicians', they remain shadowy figures, working at the margins of society.1999, Valerie Flint, Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: Ancient Greece and Rome, London: University of London Press, →ISBN, page 103. From the entry nightwandering
  • Taken together, Henry I's reforms transformed medieval government from an itinerant and often poorly organised household into a highly sophisticated administrative kingship based on permanent, static departments.2021, Tracy Borman, Crown and Sceptre: A New History of the British Monarchy, from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II, Grove Atlantic…. From the entry pipe roll
  • If Dr Anderson is a high priest of access, then Ms Wheen, itinerant commentatrix of the arts, is, if not exactly a high priestess, a pretty high-up vestal virgin.1994 August 7, “Gerald Kaufman deplores those who will sink to anything to make great art more ‘accessible’”, in The Sunday Telegraph…. From the entry commentatrix
  • Tora (Kiyoshi Atsumi), our feckless itinerant peddler, dreams he's leading his relatives in a pursuit of the bluebird of happiness, which takes them to a veritable Shangri-La.1987 May 8, Kevin Thomas, “'Bluebird': Tora-san no. 37 is bittersweet”, in Los Angeles Times, retrieved 09 Feb 2022. From the entry bluebird of happiness
  • Paying the manufacturer's list price shown on the window sticker of a new car may be about as smart as snapping up an itinerant rug merchant's opening offer.1966 April 29, “Autos: How to Pay Less for a New Car”, in Time. From the entry list price

Meaning of itinerant

  1. adjective Habitually travelling from place to place.
  2. noun One who travels from place to place.
  3. noun A member of the Travelling Community, whether settled or not.

Full definition of itinerant

Questions about itinerant in a sentence

How do you use itinerant in a sentence?
Itinerant is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “The Greek term translated as “apostle” derives from the concept of being sent, thus underlining the missionary and more itinerant nature of the ministry.”
What is a short sentence with itinerant?
“an itinerant preacher or peddler”
What does itinerant mean?
Itinerant means habitually travelling from place to place.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: itinerant (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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