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How to use wanderer in a sentence

14 example sentences · noun

Wanderer means one who wanders, who travels aimlessly. Example: “She was, in fact, constitutionally impervious to statistics and preferred to study the be-headphoned group of fifteen or so lethargic wanderers who were taking even less notice of the remorseless squawkings than she was.”

Examples of wanderer by meaning

nounOne who wanders, who travels aimlessly.

  • She was, in fact, constitutionally impervious to statistics and preferred to study the be-headphoned group of fifteen or so lethargic wanderers who were taking even less notice of the remorseless squawkings than she was.1968, Christopher Hodder-Williams, “Hands”, in Fistful of Digits, London: Coronet Books, published 1972, →ISBN, page 125

More sentences with wanderer

  • I'm an internationalist You, wanderer, probably don't know what that is!2016, Robert Smail Jack, Fritz Scholz, Wilhelm Ostwald: The Autobiography, →ISBN, page 493. From the entry Internazi
  • I wrung the promise of that bill from His Majesty whilst he was still a throneless wanderer.1923, Rafael Sabatini, chapter 3, in Fortune's Fool. From the entry throneless
  • Towards them toiled with shuffling gait two ragged wanderers, becindered and begrimed.1921, George Randolph Chester, Lillian Chester, The Son of Wallingford, page 75. From the entry becindered
  • They were "persons without identity," and "passportless wanderers."2015, Rosemary Sullivan, Stalin's Daughter, →ISBN, page 150. From the entry passportless
  • But movement is scarce here tonight: stragglesome wanderers, looking purposeless and disattached, strolling for the sake of motion.2009, Jonathan Miles, Dear American Airlines. From the entry stragglesome
  • He’s a gypsy, a wanderer, a general messer-abouter, here today and gone tomorrow and God only knows where the day after.1965, Eric Frank Russell, The Mindwarpers, New York, N.Y.: Prestige Books, published December 1972, page 127. From the entry messer-abouter
  • Sagan and Percy agree that human beings are naturally wanderers and wonderers, but they disagree on why human beings wander and wonder.2002, Peter Augustine Lawler, Aliens in America: the strange truth about our souls. From the entry wonderer
  • A wanderer by nature, he earned his keep wherever he went by the might of his sword-arm, by his skill with weapons.1977, Gardner Francis Fox, “Shadow of a Demon”, in The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 3, →ISBN, page 32. From the entry sell-sword
  • The bindlestiff on the otherhand was the lowest of the low for he would steal from the bindles of his fellow wanderers.1950, James Blish, Cities in Flight. From the entry bindlestiff
  • It was not a singer of the fireside, but a hearthless wanderer, who put in all hearts the Anglo-Saxon's simple "Home, Sweet Home."1906, Henry Watterson, The compromises of life, page 343. From the entry hearthless
  • "Well," he met the Choco's glare, "we can't very well have him looking like some frithy trail wanderer out for a lowsun stroll, that looks bad on us.”2017, Joshua K. Sapp, The Shaky Season. From the entry frithy
  • Stuart Schram, one of Mao Zedong's most astute analysts, argued that Maoism's characteristic faith in thought reform was born of the CCP's dependence on rootless wanderers with questionable loyalties.2012, Aminda M. Smith, Thought Reform and China's Dangerous Classes, page 1. From the entry thought reform
  • Like most dreamers, to whom it is given sometimes to hear the music of the spheres, Heyst, the wanderer of the Archipelago, had a taste for silence.1915, Joseph Conrad, chapter 1, in Victory: An Island Tale. From the entry music of the spheres

Meaning of wanderer

  1. noun One who wanders, who travels aimlessly.
  2. noun Any of various far-migrating nymphalid butterflies of the genus Danaus.
  3. noun The wandering albatross, Diomedea exulans.

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Questions about wanderer in a sentence

How do you use wanderer in a sentence?
Wanderer is used as a noun. For example: “She was, in fact, constitutionally impervious to statistics and preferred to study the be-headphoned group of fifteen or so lethargic wanderers who were taking even less notice of the remorseless squawkings than she was.”
What is a short sentence with wanderer?
“They were "persons without identity," and "passportless wanderers."”
What does wanderer mean?
Wanderer means one who wanders, who travels aimlessly.

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