wayfarers

Example Sentences

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After 14 desperate days, the wayfarers surrendered to indigenous members of the tiny island of Tobi, who claimed them as slaves.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

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

I offer this story to ask, will we build homes with open sides that welcome wayfarers into our lives?

From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2018

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

From The Guardian • Jun. 7, 2018

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