wander away
Example Sentences
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Despite their differing diagnoses, both of her loved ones share a common symptom: They are prone to wander away from home, and have cognitive impairments that make it hard to find their way back.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2025
They suggest that, much like humans with dementia who sometimes wander away from familiar places, dolphins might also become disoriented due to a form of Alzheimer's-like disease.
From Science Daily • Oct. 11, 2025
Then he tried to “elope” — or wander away, a common occurrence among children with autism — 11 times, the report says.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 26, 2022
“After they learned what they needed to do they would do it over and over again, until, an hour later, they were done eating and would just wander away from us.”
From Washington Post • Apr. 12, 2022
Right there he took the opportunity to lecture me about why the hens shouldn’t wander away from the safety of the barnyard.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
