wayfaring
Example Sentences
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Like many wayfaring hopefuls, Adam Clark Vroman, an ex-railroad worker, bibliophile and photographer, was lured to California by its sense of possibility.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2022
And I’m singing “Wayfaring Stranger”: “I’m just a poor wayfaring stranger.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2019
Lanky and silver-haired, Mr. Waller looked the part of the handsome wayfaring stranger, going so far as to say, “Of course I’m Robert Kincaid. Just look at me.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2017
“I appreciate the policy—and indeed respect the wisdom behind it—of not allowing every wayfaring scholar, not to mention dabblers and rank amateurs, to sift through the Justice’s papers,” Kluger wrote.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 24, 2014
I soon discovered that if a wayfaring stranger wishes to eavesdrop on a local population the places for him to slip in and hold his peace are bars and churches.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
