wanderer

Example Sentences

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They arrived at a new name, Caine, with its layers of meaning: as a brother in arms to Wick’s Abel; as nod to David Carradine’s “Kung Fu” wanderer — and reclamation of Bruce Lee’s reported exclusion from the role; and in the literal sense, the personification of his epee-like weapon of choice.

From Los Angeles Times

Since the beginning writers have sought to capture the experience of the outsider, the exile, the parched traveler, the wanderer, the migrant.

From New York Times

Indeed, the nameless wanderer is without children, in one definition deployed in the book: He’s searching for the son he drove off four years earlier, when the boy was 17 and asking after his maybe-crazy missing mother, whose whereabouts also remain unknown.

From Washington Post

In the decades since they started collaborating in 2000, while also working on their individual art practices, they have exhibited internationally, and created public sculptures such as the recently unveiled “The Wanderer,” a gigantic sea serpent whose cablelike head rears up from Google’s building in South Lake Union.

From Seattle Times

Scientists have announced the first-ever unambiguous discovery of a free-floating black hole, a rogue wanderer in the void some 5,000 light-years from Earth.

From Scientific American