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itinerate

[ahy-tin-uh-rayt, ih-tin-] / aɪˈtɪn əˌreɪt, ɪˈtɪn- /


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After the short, with Hall playing an itinerate gambler, made it into the Sundance Film Festival, Anderson expanded it into his feature debut, 1997’s “Hard Eight,” which catapulted Hall’s career.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 13, 2022

Fired from that job when new owners bought the Minneapolis station, the itinerate newsman landed as city editor of the fictional Los Angeles Tribune in the hour-long series that bore his name.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 31, 2021

In 1789 he quitted the seafaring life, and commenced to itinerate for subscribers to enable him to publish his poems.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Charles Rogers

His strong suit was his itinerate susceptibility; but his main anchorage was his better five-fifths.

From Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope by R. D. (Robert Dalziel) Cumming

Nor was there a whipsaw in the whole country round with which to work, the itinerate sawyer having gone on with his property to another creek.

From Blue Ridge Country by Erskine Caldwell

Both were energetic country parsons, and both itinerated; but Berridge went over a wider field than Grimshaw.

From The English Church in the Eighteenth Century by Charles J. (Charles John) Abbey

For many years she itinerated as a preacher, and at the great age of one hundred and three her health is still vigorous.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 86, February, 1875 by Various

As on the way I itinerated, A rural person I obviated, Interrogating time’s transitation, And of the passage demonstration.

From A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn

As a flame of fire, Fisher itinerated all over California and Oregon, kindling a blaze of revival in almost every place he touched.

From California Sketches, Second Series by O. P. Fitzgerald

The Penningtons were successively of Exeter, Lezant, and Stoke-Climsland, and itinerated as occasion required.

From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by William Henry Hamilton Rogers

After a week of conference with the great divine, Whitefield passed on through Connecticut, preaching as he went, and devoted the rest of the year to itinerating through the other colonies.

From The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut by Maria Louise Greene

One can scarcely fancy Romaine itinerating at all; but if he had done so, the bleak moors of Yorkshire or the cottage homes of Bedfordshire would not have been suitable spheres for his labours.

From The English Church in the Eighteenth Century by Charles J. (Charles John) Abbey

In the first years of her practice she did some itinerating work, but now that the work is so large and she is the only physician in charge, she has had to give that up.

From Notable Women of Modern China by Margaret E. Burton

In addition to their itinerating labours, they gradually filled the pulpits thus left vacant in the chapels.

From Excellent Women by Various

For Ponnamal, who was the leader of our itinerating band, broke down hopelessly, and thought her use in life had passed—till the babies came and brought her back to activity again.

From Lotus Buds by Amy Carmichael


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