wanderer

Example Sentences

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Around 1897 Rasputin left home and took on the life of a strannik, or wanderer in search of God.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

His blue eyes agleam, his trousers pressed, the former president, a wanderer accustomed to the planet’s cruel and harsh predicaments, offered coffee and pastries in his hotel room.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 2024

Watch: “Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell,” a film from Vietnam, follows a wanderer on a spiritual quest.

From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2024

The histone acetyltransferase MOF, an enzyme and a classical epigenetic regulator, is such a wanderer between these two worlds.

From Science Daily • Oct. 9, 2023

Apollo promised that he, the disgraced, the homeless wanderer, would bring to the place where his grave should be a mysterious blessing from the gods.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton