wayfaring

Example Sentences

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Much of that might have been true, but they were also living the other version of the wayfaring life.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2024

Lanky and silver-haired, Mr. Waller looked the part of the handsome wayfaring stranger, going so far as to say, “Of course I’m Robert Kincaid. Just look at me.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 10, 2017

“I appreciate the policy—and indeed respect the wisdom behind it—of not allowing every wayfaring scholar, not to mention dabblers and rank amateurs, to sift through the Justice’s papers,” Kluger wrote.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 24, 2014

Amid the world's continuous wayfaring, the Roman station church pilgrimage has a unique character, combining history, art, architecture and the human quest for truth.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2014

I soon discovered that if a wayfaring stranger wishes to eavesdrop on a local population the places for him to slip in and hold his peace are bars and churches.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck