How to Use wandering in a Sentence

wandering

1 of 2 adjective

• Donovan was born in Glasgow, Scotland and was a high school dropout and sort of wandering beach bum, according to his bio.
  — Mike Oliver | [e-mail], al, 4 Aug. 2019
• By being at the foothills of the Appalachians an occasional wandering bear had come through, but not wild hogs.
  — Michael C. Bolton, al, 21 July 2023
• He was born a hundred years ago in Cuba, the eldest son of a wandering Italian botanist and her agronomist husband.
  — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
• The supervisor had found a wandering pet tortoise, named Seashell, in the same area in August 2021 and had reunited it with its owners.
  — Marc Duvoisin, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Mar. 2023
• Many rivers meandered over this plain, and over the millennia their wandering channels dug a series of basins into it.
  — Robert Kunzig, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
• Thursday’s fatal crash, however, marks the first time a wandering bear has been hit by a car in the city of Orlando, according to reports to FWC.
  — Christopher Cann, Orlando Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2023
• Antidote to a Wandering Mind The opposite of a wandering mind is a mindful one.
  — Amishi P. Jha, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2013
• Are there other suggestions for managing my wandering eyes while on the couch?
  — Miss Manners | Judith Martin, Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2023
• All these reports of Juan’s wandering eye put a damper on the Dixons’ honeymoon phase following their second wedding.
  — Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 6 Nov. 2023
• Are there other suggestions for managing my wandering eyes while on the couch? Sit farther apart?
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 3 July 2023
• And the team found that artificial traps with feathers around them captured more wandering arthropods than those without.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Scientific American, 8 Nov. 2019
• The Ukrainian tank crew that prayed before each battle nicknamed their tank The Wanderer, for its wandering movements around the battlefield.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Mar. 2023
• Cormier is a storyteller who celebrates song itself and the wandering spirit that infuses folk music and the lives of many folk singers.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 17 Mar. 2018
• As the oldest of three siblings, Pessoa’s path as a wandering creative has caused some concern among her Colombian and Brazilian family members.
  — Mekita Rivas, refinery29.com, 30 Nov. 2023
• The tapes include the distortions of a do-it-yourself recording project, with its prickly static and wandering amplification.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2020
• That river was a wandering, seasonal thing that played peekaboo, trickling through a braided network of little streams and existing springs.
  — Patt Morrisoncolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
• This idea is explored at length in a wandering and wonderful Tim Ferris conversation with Balaji.
  — Tom Vander Ark, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021
• Little little orishas is the story of Sango, a simple-minded and defiant wandering spirit, and his gentle sister Oya.
  — Ciku Kimeria, Quartz Africa, 2 June 2019
• Numerous officers responded to find the girl’s parents after passersby reported the wandering toddler, police said.
  — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 26 Mar. 2018
• It’s dotted with art installations, succulents and the occasional wandering cat.
  — Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Mar. 2023
• My mother's paternal grandfather was a wandering Muslim mystic.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2010
• If Rufo represented a modern, media-savvy social conservatism, then Speir embodied a more atavistic traditionalism, both more wandering and more truculent.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2023
• Donovan was born in Glasgow, Scotland and was a high school dropout and sort of wandering beach bum, according to his bio.
  — Mike Oliver | [e-mail], al, 4 Aug. 2019
• By being at the foothills of the Appalachians an occasional wandering bear had come through, but not wild hogs.
  — Michael C. Bolton, al, 21 July 2023
• He was born a hundred years ago in Cuba, the eldest son of a wandering Italian botanist and her agronomist husband.
  — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
• The supervisor had found a wandering pet tortoise, named Seashell, in the same area in August 2021 and had reunited it with its owners.
  — Marc Duvoisin, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Mar. 2023
• Many rivers meandered over this plain, and over the millennia their wandering channels dug a series of basins into it.
  — Robert Kunzig, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
• Thursday’s fatal crash, however, marks the first time a wandering bear has been hit by a car in the city of Orlando, according to reports to FWC.
  — Christopher Cann, Orlando Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2023
• Antidote to a Wandering Mind The opposite of a wandering mind is a mindful one.
  — Amishi P. Jha, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2013
• Are there other suggestions for managing my wandering eyes while on the couch?
  — Miss Manners | Judith Martin, Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2023

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wandering

2 of 2 noun

• The trick here, though, is that this isn't mindless wandering or an ode to the city's nightlife.
  — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 17 May 2018
• The note helped the library staff make sense of a recent trend of strange book wanderings.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Nov. 2019
• His dad, Jon, could emerge from his room at any time, asleep and wandering.
  — Lydia Woolever, Popular Mechanics, 28 Nov. 2018
• This is a band that can sing about the related pleasures of wandering and a sense of home.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 2 July 2018
• But there was this sense (the characters) were all kind of wandering.
  — James Hebert, sandiegouniontribune.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• That’s how the evening passed, the first of my sobriety—with wandering and wanting and saying no.
  — Longreads, 20 June 2018
• The tracking program helped slow his wandering, but could not stop it.
  — New York Times, 8 Feb. 2022
• Prepared to be shocked at what Apple and Google know about your wanderings.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2023
• However, mind-wandering can go awry, and this can be bad for your health.
  — The Conversation, oregonlive, 5 Jan. 2021
• Which is why, when Alvin got too old and frail to jump over fences, the Mainos had holes cut in theirs to make his wanderings easier.
  — John Wilkens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 9 June 2017
• That jolt awake at 3 a.m. has become Harris’ campaign theme, the crux of her wandering stump speech.
  — Molly Ball, Time, 3 Oct. 2019
• That’s roughly three times the size of the world’s biggest bird now alive, the wandering albatross, and about as wide as an F-16 fighter jet.
  — NBC News, 12 Sep. 2019
• Cattle egrets are rare here, but a wandering bird shows up every few years.
  — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 11 July 2018
• This space is perfect for a dog who likes to romp and for dog owners who don’t want to worry about a wandering dog or don’t have time for a walk.
  — Joan Walden, courant.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• Biden speaks to crowds like a desperate wandering priest, holding an Obama icon above his head to find the way.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 13 Sep. 2019
• The locals were welcoming, and our unplanned time turned out to be a sweet surrender to the joys of wandering.
  — Alice Short, latimes.com, 27 May 2018
• Her wandering, and the fear that went with it, became part of her writing discipline.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 29 Mar. 2021
• For years, his life has been a revolving door of jail stints, shelters and couches, and street-wanderings.
  — Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2017
• A lot of the restaurants and bars on King Street were closed for the holidays, but after a bit of wandering, the two found a Chinese restaurant with open doors.
  — Francesca Street, CNN, 28 Dec. 2021
• But Tesla also needs to sort out its high-speed wandering.
  — Dave Vanderwerp, Car and Driver, 8 Dec. 2021
• One of the most bizarre story lines is Taissa’s nighttime wanderings.
  — Rose Minutaglio, ELLE, 29 Mar. 2023
• Just the slightest wandering glance away from the field would put me at a profound disadvantage.
  — Conor Orr, SI.com, 16 Jan. 2018
• Due to his constant wanderings around Charlotte in search of new places to eat, my brother-in-law, Mark, is pretty much the Vasco da Gama of lunch places.
  — Clayton Hanson, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• In the last 15 years, the science of mind wandering has mushroomed as a topic of scholarly study, thanks in part to advances in brain imaging.
  — Libby Copeland, Smithsonian, 24 Feb. 2017
• But in past seasons, the wandering has delivered much more.
  — Stephanie Merry, chicagotribune.com, 18 Aug. 2017
• The fourth and final stage is collapse, irrelevance, and a wandering search for the future.
  — Ganesh Sitaraman, The New Republic, 23 Dec. 2019
• Although mind-wandering seems to decrease with age, it can be nurtured.
  — Washington Post, 12 July 2021
• The Irish capital invites leisurely wanderings, with stops for music, art and top-flight pubs and grub.
  — Matthew Kronsberg, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2023
• The wandering of these electrons across a battery cell is what generates a current.
  — Gregory Barber, Wired, 1 Feb. 2022
• The Alzheimer’s Association also lists ways to reduce risks of wandering and ways to prepare your home.
  — Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 21 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024