wanderer

Example Sentences

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The cat's owner, Jane Rutherford, said: "He was a big wanderer - always crossing roads. He crossed that road for four years."

From BBC

A bookish, small-town boy from Illinois who became a soldier, wanderer, translator, diplomat, journalist, author and professor, Mr. Steel since the early 1960s had been one of the nation’s most prolific critics of America’s master plans for navigating a perilous, changing world.

From New York Times

That can mean fulfilling a long-held dream, as Bruno does when he becomes a rural farmer and cheesemaker like his ancestors; it can also mean figuring out what that dream even is, as Pietro tries to do, becoming a writer but mostly a wanderer.

From Los Angeles Times

It helped establish a popular theme among modern-day troubadours with its tale of a lonely and destitute wanderer far from home “with a dollar in my hand, and an aching in my heart.”

From Los Angeles Times

Among the “defects” of others on the survey were wanderer, illiterate, feeble-minded, liar, deserted husband, town pauper, obstinate, alcoholic and bearer of stillborn twins.

From Seattle Times