wandering star
Example Sentences
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That’s just the sort of factoid you might learn on a TV show that, in its own way, risked becoming a wandering star: “It’s Academic.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 4, 2022
Ms. Stafford was also born under a wandering star.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2022
A comet – by virtue of its unpredictability as a stella errans – a wandering star – induced feelings of instability and possible apocalypse.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 29, 2018
For it is a nomadic accent - it was born under a wandering star.
From Reuters ● Aug. 25, 2011
He drifted about, with no ties of affection, with no ambitions, like a wandering star in Úrsula's planetary system.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
