wander

Ms. Orlean has gleaned many of her ideas from serendipitous wanderings around city neighborhoods.

Mystified, he wanders the dank halls of their rented palazzo and the fetid alleyways of the “pestilential city” where canal waters slither past like “a fat, grey-green worm.”

Its protagonist, a wandering mercenary, seeks revenge on a group of renegades who murdered her family.

Two benched federal workers—a man in a green flannel and baseball cap and a woman in a Disneyland hoodie—wandered in.

We wandered the sold-out aisles and asked sellers what might make readers do a double-take.