meander

Example Sentences

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The novels meander discursively through time, so it does not matter where one begins.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

Yet it was during this meander that his writing made a steep drop into seeing, feeling, connecting, plunging toward transcendence.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2025

Reaching anything needing attention can take days or even weeks because the lines that carry water to customers meander through valleys, over ridgelines, and along roadways, many of which remain impassable.

From Salon • Nov. 25, 2024

Kids stay up late, ice cream becomes a food group and people are out and about, undergirded by an unspoken permission to meander through the days.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2024

After the ceremony, I walked back to the river and watched it meander on its way to where, many miles distant, it emptied into the Indian Ocean.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela