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

Vendors are hawking flower crowns, drinking horns, herbal tea blends and artisanal wildflower honeys while the pop-up taverns declaring “COLD DRYNKS” attend to parched wayfarers.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2022

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

The communities who had accepted the strangers as wayfarers wanting to help them did not see it coming.

From The Guardian • Sep. 17, 2015

Because there were few inns, the monasteries were open for the entertainment of wayfarers, rich and poor alike.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli