How to Use itinerant in a Sentence

itinerant

adjective
  • First came the purge that itinerant young adults know all too well.
    Peter Rubin, Longreads, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Fern rebuilds an itinerant life from the ashes of that loss and the death of her husband.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 20 Feb. 2021
  • Since then, the United States Grand Prix has had an itinerant feel.
    New York Times, 14 July 2022
  • Bia and Banquo were the two constants of her itinerant 20s.
    Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2022
  • Back at the park gate, an itinerant trader warns us to be careful.
    Anthony Ham, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Sep. 2023
  • This itinerant way of life means that many of us can’t burden ourselves down with too much stuff.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021
  • They were sold to pombeiros—itinerant traders—and taken by canoe or marched to the coast from as far as 250 miles inland.
    James Oakes, The New York Review of Books, 23 Mar. 2021
  • As itinerant artists, the painters worked quickly in order to make a living.
    Lyndi McNulty, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 15 Aug. 2021
  • That is, except for the itinerant pocket of purple and gold.
    Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Clements, who was born in Seattle, grew up the child of itinerant parents who worked blue-collar jobs.
    Annie Gowen, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2022
  • Many of them are itinerant, moving their colonies around the country on lorries in search of pollen and nectar.
    The Economist, 8 Apr. 2020
  • The itinerant homeless man was believed to have disappeared at the same time as the little girl.
    Fox News, 19 Feb. 2020
  • The radio host Bruce Duffie asked Mr. Preston, in a 1990 interview, if the itinerant life of an organ soloist was fun.
    New York Times, 23 May 2022
  • Many of them are itinerant, moving from cloud seeding in one town in the summer to another in the winter.
    Doug Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Aug. 2021
  • Now 36, the itinerant striker has played for 17 club sides on three continents.
    Asif Burhan, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
  • But Pham’s profession and itinerant past have also taught him to adapt.
    New York Times, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Bethany Collins’s early career as an artist was an itinerant one.
    Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Dante spent the last nineteen years of his working life as an itinerant diplomat and secretary for the lords of northern Italy.
    Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
  • It’s a stunning poem of a film, directed by Chloé Zhao, about a tribe of itinerant workers who live in RVs, trailers, and vans.
    Abby Aguirre, Vogue, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Back then, the problem was thought to be the nature of Joey himself, a greasy heel trying to scheme his way from itinerant crooner to supper club smoothie.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2023
  • In France itinerant coiffeurs made up 8-10% of the market, says Pierre André, who runs Wecasa, an app which arranges home cuts.
    The Economist, 28 May 2020
  • If the itinerant musician sounds like a relic of the past, Crockett would invite you to look at the current statistics for poverty in the U.S.
    Jonny Auping, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • This was all that connected Dailey, a 38-year-old itinerant Vietnam veteran, to the crime: the word of its prime suspect.
    Pamela Colloff, ProPublica, 4 Dec. 2019
  • But Leonard does not stick around, and Gloria and her son, Corey, lead an itinerant and precarious life around Boston.
    Christian Lorentzen, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Rumors and intrigue surround the couple: Eve left behind an itinerant life riding the rails and singing in a western swing band.
    Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Were there any stories of itinerant preachers that inspired the story?
    David Wallace, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Strong spent the next 15 years as an itinerant journalist, bouncing from one boom town to another.
    David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Jan. 2023
  • An itinerant life that included a stint living in a storage unit.
    Alan Feuer, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Starkel knows something about an itinerant life, not only because of his three-college odyssey.
    Steve Kroner, SFChronicle.com, 29 Dec. 2020
  • Orchestral tours have become scarce, and Carnegie Hall, which relies on a steady supply of itinerant talent, has had to adapt.
    Vulture, 8 Apr. 2022

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