wayfarers

Example Sentences

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The foreign fungi, perhaps a colony of wayfarers from the bag of golden oyster mycelium beside it, was gone and pink oysters began to emerge.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 7, 2021

Between bandits, militiamen, and wayfarers, Afrin is barely recognisable, say Kurdish locals who have made it back.

From The Guardian • Jun. 7, 2018

In 1799, the site became the Quarantine, where wayfarers suspected of having infectious diseases like smallpox, yellow fever, cholera and typhus were detained in hospitals and shanties.

From New York Times • Jul. 24, 2015

The peoples of the enclaves—long-term residents and wayfarers alike—soon joined together, geographically and genetically.

From Slate • May 18, 2015

She lay in wait for the wayfarers along the roads to the city and whomever she seized she put a riddle to, telling him if he could answer it, she would let him go.

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