How To Use Itinerant In A Sentence
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Norman Neal Williams had been a transient, they learned, an itinerant vitamin salesman with no known relatives.
MORE TALES OF THE CITY
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Devoid of the ceremony and liturgy associated with the Church of England, charismatic itinerants made a straightforward appeal.
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Well before the beginning of the global economic crisis, a Brazilian street seller was on his way to becoming a very famous entrepreneur in the country by doing just one thing: selling popcorn, with a personal touch. 36 year old Valdir Novaki used to work as an itinerant farm labourer, until he arrived in Curitiba, in 1988, where he started working as a newsagent, then as a car park driver.
Global Voices in English » Brazil: Tips to face the crisis from a popcorn street seller
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Recently, itinerant workers - some illegal immigrants - have moved into the trade, at the risk of being exploited by gangmasters.
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A party of itinerants travelling in around 24 vehicles arrived at the factory on Sunday evening.
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Local leaders appear to abhor the behaviour of itinerants, but have lost the authority and perhaps the will to deal with it.
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They adapt very well to an itinerant existence for a few weeks, setting up shop in various places, until they exhaust their stock of goods.
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They are like dead walls and the place they enclose like a vault, and the itinerant drab like a thing in drab cerements (they trail the dust) that ought to be dead wailing for entrance to things, tombed in those walls, that are dead.
This Freedom
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The lack of a bobsleigh run in this country means that she will not return to the ice until October, when she resumes her itinerant winter existence.
Times, Sunday Times
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On the religious side all that they have had is the occasional itinerant preacher, thundering at them of the wrath of God; and on the cultural what Aunt Dalmanutha calls the "pindling" district school.
Sight to the Blind
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I hear that the night that Charles sat up at White's, which was that preceding the night of Lady Holland's death, he planned out a kind of itinerant trade, which was going from horse race to horse race, and so, by knowing the value and speed of all the horses in England, to acquire a certain fortune.
George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life
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Garden, who attracts considerable notice by the cry of -- Come buy my live shrimps and pierriwinkles -- buy my wink, wink, wink; these, however, are exceptions to those previously mentioned, as they have good voices, and deliver themselves to some tune; but to the former may be added the itinerant collector of old clothes, who continually annoys you with -- Clow; clow sale.
Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life
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Their earliest pictures showed life among itinerant farm workers.
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This was more in the character of the Irish itinerant gambler, called in that country a ` ` carrow, '' than of the Scottish beggar.
The Antiquary
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Some previous stuff I have done on thieving pikey bastards: assorted pikey pictures and my bit on how you can not call pikey thieving gippo scum itinerant travellers.
Archive 2008-03-01
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I've been an itinerant singer , a circus rider, when I used to vault like Leotard, and dance on a rope like Blondin.
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He has become an itinerant preacher, but his temporary religious conversion does not prevent him from persistently pursuing her.
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Essentially, the azad were itinerant mendicants who regularly practised extreme ascetic styles of religious devotion, as a mark of their ‘other worldliness.’
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The partnership built up a country clientele through itinerant trading with a hawker's licence.
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The itinerant handyman is driving through the Arizona desert when he realizes that his car radiator is in need of water.
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What began as a group of shaggy street performers and itinerant stilt-walkers now commands huge audiences and premium prices in Las Vegas.
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Firstly that initial training courses for native speaker teachers have traditionally taken place (and still do) in multilingual settings in the UK and secondly that itinerant native speaker teachers feel uncomfortable with translation in class if they don’t speak the learners L1.
T is for Translation « An A-Z of ELT
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Before his time, those kind of itinerant authors, called troubadours or romanciers, were a species of madmen who attracted the admiration of fools.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
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I don't even want to know, fascinating though it may be, about the latest move made by your itinerant exorcist.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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In recent years the foundry has had an itinerant existence.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nog is a mysterious itinerant who sells the narrator a foam-rubber octopus, and whose name he adopts as an alias.
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Writing in 1929, Paynter recalled an itinerant pedlar who had visited fairs around East Cornwall almost two decades previously.
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Typically they live as solitary itinerants wandering across the land.
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It could be that the clientele has always and ever been the European tourists who, on any given day, celebrate the café's obvious debt to the Parisian bistros, or the local business people and itinerant voluptuaries such as myself who come here all the time.
Terence Clarke: Restaurant Review: Cafe de La Presse, San Francisco
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If while you are sitting on your porch sipping Margaritas a trio of itinerant musicians serenades you with mandolin, lute, and hautboy, you have no obligation, in the absence of a contract, to pay them for their performance no matter how much you enjoyed it.
Need for Recusals by Judges
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The rest were made up of unfortunate women of the vilest and most ragged description, aged itinerants, with features seared with famine, bleared eyes, dropping jaws, shivering limbs, and all the mortal signs of hopeless and aidless, and, worst of all, breadless infirmity.
Pelham — Complete
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Those figures may have been dubious but, for an itinerant preacher, he had a pretty way with words that struck a raw nerve.
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While artists working in cities had their own studios, provincial painters were usually itinerants and sometimes lived with the families who patronized them.
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They were itinerant farm labourers.
Times, Sunday Times
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He does, though, admit that the itinerant acting life can put extra pressure on a relationship.
Times, Sunday Times
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Taking a page from itinerant revivalists, he traveled the country on lecture tours.
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About 38 percent of the nation's instructors are now part-timers, a category of nontenured itinerants.
What To Chop
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Before then, buying and selling occurred through fairs, market-stalls, artisans' workshops, or itinerant pedlars.
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The lack of a bobsleigh run in this country means that she will not return to the ice until October, when she resumes her itinerant winter existence.
Times, Sunday Times
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This feeling of dislocation makes him an ideal writer to disembroil this much misunderstood itinerant world.
Times, Sunday Times
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And across the Inland Empire, in a multitude of saloons called ‘Mint bars’ and ‘Stockmen's bars,’ silver-dollar-jangling miners and cowpokes speak up loudly in a man's world, while the roads to something-else are still walked by cocky, freewheeling itinerant ranch hands, gandy dancers and bindlestiffs.
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The mendicants called such a life of poverty and itinerant preaching the vita apostolica.
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As an itinerant musician in his early life, Pickens played in barrelhouses across the southern states.
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An itinerant miniaturist, Dempsey later became a successful cutter of silhouette portraits.
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These men descend from the era - long before radio and television, cinemas and telephones - when itinerant narrators brought news and entertainment to country fairs and village squares.
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A restless, itinerant soul, he didn't stay in Symington long.
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With new taxes and soaring public liability insurance, many itinerant "showies" are now being forced out of the family business.
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But, as in the sixteenth century the harp went out and the bagpipes came into fashion, it may be surmised that it was brought in, with other French novelties, on the return of Queen Mary, perhaps by the Queen herself, or, maybe, some itinerant player of the cornemuse may have accidentally been in her train, and his music set a fashion which has now become national.
Brittany & Its Byways
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In our grief we hover with the hummingbirds: We are spinning on a paused world gone over to itinerant echo.
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They fielded a team of itinerants and youngsters alongside the few remaining familiar faces.
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Residents have been worried both by the quad bike riding and the noise caused by the itinerants since their arrival.
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In late 1940 an itinerant Jewish theater group was founded in Chernovtsy that became home to some of the top-ranking Romanian Jewish male and female actors, among them Sidy Thal, Sevilla Pastor and A. Tempner.
Romanian Yiddish Theater.
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Seemingly, by listening to an itinerant, well-heeled failure talk about his screw-ups, people feel less devastated by their own mistakes.
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These changes, which are more visible now, have been noted by many itinerant researchers.
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She went on to paint a somewhat lurid picture of her father's itinerant lifestyle.
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itinerant traders
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And again, an "itinerant" came along with a machine known as a lung-tester; one fair-haired, slender youth, having fears he would fall below the average, made so great an effort as seriously to impair his health for the time.
Minnesota; Its Character and Climate Likewise Sketches of Other Resorts Favorable to Invalids; Together With Copious Notes on Health; Also Hints to Tourists and Emigrants.
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Milestone Films Ray Salyer as the itinerant railman in Rogosin's film.
Where American Dreams Went to Drink
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This phenomenon was due in part to the impact of the Swiss mission, whose amenities and welcoming attitude toward itinerant women helped to alter the gendered terms on which the chiefdom was accessible to outsiders.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
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Another in 1853 spread to Chicago and St. Louis where itinerant railroad workers took it to Iowa City, which is the furthest the railroad had reached.
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Given how critical your choice of operating system is, only a buffoon would act on the word of the massed ranks of geekdom or, indeed, the inflated opinions of an itinerant scribe.
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Soon the word spread, and itinerant travelers began to squat there.
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I also lament people who ignore the beauties of the English countryside - excepting the itinerant rambler and the American tourist.
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Lord Rochester's frolics in the character of a mountebank are well known, and the speech which he made upon the occasion of his first turning itinerant doctor, has been often printed; there is in it a true spirit of satire, and a keenness of lampoon, which is very much in the character of his lordship, who had certainly an original turn for invective and satirical composition.
The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland
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Private accounts are not going to turn the nation's graybeards into itinerant millionaires anytime soon.
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They exude the warmth of home, albeit an itinerant, impermanent home of temporary balconies.
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Presumably, the itinerant musicians and gypsies carried this instrument in their wanderings across the continents of Asia and Europe, giving rise to a variety of instruments that are similar in nature.
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I can make enough as a bandleader and itinerant musician to eke by, supplemented with the occasional website construction gig here and there.
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With a considerably larger cast of main characters, this second novel takes in three generations and a wide milieu of itinerant bed-hopping actors, theatrical agents and journalists.
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My parents were itinerants, travelling from farm to station to farm to station… you get the idea.
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If it was too dressy for this itinerant, Sarima could always drape a napkin over it.
WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
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And as any itinerant surf junkie will tell you, nothing sucks worse than flying halfway around the world to find your favorite planks battered to hell.
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Despite his obscure origins Warltire established himself as a fashionable itinerant lecturer on chemistry and a supplier of laboratory chemicals.
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Prior to Fox's visit, nearly thirty itinerants had travelled to Barbados, most of whom stayed several weeks.
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As an itinerant king he adapted each new lodging to provide a suite of royal chambers similar to those in an English palace.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The word bank comes from "banco," the bench on which itinerant merchants traded.
News
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The movements of itinerants are entirely unpredictable as well as unrestrained.
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They were "itinerant," going on foot from place to place, and wearing coarse robes tied round the waist with a rope.
Early European History
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The clandestine Sufi orders - chiefly the Naqshbandiya and Qadiriya - survived, as did itinerant mullahs, makeshift mosques, and the pilgrimages to the gravesites and shrines of saints that are so central to Sufism.
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Sometimes women worked as cooks or as itinerant peddlers of small goods on the street.
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I had envisioned using cob to make my interior walls, but was set straight during a conversation with Tony Beurskens, an itinerant cobbing guru and natural building artist I met at the Natural Building Colloquium.
There’s Only So Much You Can Do When It’s 106 Degrees Outside
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And in the corners of the streets steamed the itinerant kitchens of the piemen, and rose the sharp cry, "All hot! all hot!" in the ear of infant and ragged hunger.
Night and Morning, Complete
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The media widely reported the incident and the policy on the detention and removal of itinerants was reformed.
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The itinerant sweetmeat vendor shown in the woodcut is a specimen of the class of Japanese most prone to superstition.
Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs
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This was more in the character of the Irish itinerant gambler, called in that country a “carrow,” than of the Scottish beggar.
The Antiquary
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Working in ceramic, Irene Aguilar Alcantara depicts the itinerant fruit vendors seen everyday in Mexican towns.
Working in ceramic, Irene Aguilar Alcantara depicts the itinerant fruit vendors seen everyday in Mexican towns. © Arden Aibel Rothstein and Anya Leah Rothstein, 2007
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The alert follows a flood of complaints about itinerant traders who charge extortionate prices for bitumen coverings for drives.
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It's incredible that someone who, these days, is undoubtedly more superannuated than itinerant can still sound this convincing.
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I don't want to give the impression that such visits by itinerants were frequent.
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Hundreds of thousands of soldiers during the Civil War had tintypes made by studio or itinerant photographers to leave as mementos with loved ones and friends or to send home by mail from the front.
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And are equally enamoured of their son's itinerant showbiz lifestyle, it seems.
Times, Sunday Times
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Many doctors were itinerant wanderers - Hippocrates among them.
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He's also got a deep-blues vocal delivery, and comes across as a real genuine, home-schooled itinerant character.
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They have such a mastery of the whole technology lark that neither their friendships nor their earning power seems to be compromised by their itinerant existence.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is not to say we didn't get our share of itinerant whackos.
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Here's what some time-zone itinerants have picked up in their travels.
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An itinerant court stayed at urban and rural palaces and hunting lodges.
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The lack of a bobsleigh run in this country means that she will not return to the ice until October, when she resumes her itinerant winter existence.
Times, Sunday Times
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Itinerant labourers were prone to vary long periods of hard work by short bouts of tremendous drunkenness.
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Itinerant and illiterate, the Ma portrayed in Chinese newspaper reports was not a model citizen.
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The incentive for the men was that as homeless itinerants their social security would be under ￡20 a week.
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They are a race of nomads, mariners, wanderers and itinerants.
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By 1937, Fortune magazine was stigmatizing them as ‘crowded rookeries of itinerant flophouses.’
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It could be that the clientele has always and ever been the European tourists who, on any given day, celebrate the café's obvious debt to the Parisian bistros, or the local business people and itinerant voluptuaries such as myself who come here all the time.
Terence Clarke: Restaurant Review: Cafe de La Presse, San Francisco
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This was more in the character of the Irish itinerant gambler, called in that country a _carrow_, than of the Scottish beggar.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 397, November 7, 1829
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Ordained as a priest, he received papal dispensation to pursue a career as an itinerant scholar and teacher, attaching himself to elite households and powerful printing firms throughout Europe.
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He is at his best when relieving a skinflint widow of her wealth, sorting out a king's love life or abandoning a band of raggle-taggle Gypsies to become an itinerant actor.
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Farmers fled to work as itinerant merchants; the amount of cultivated grain land shrank from 12,350 acres to less than 5,000.
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Palmer grounds further mistrust in an awareness of the late hour of language, in anxiety regarding its itinerant languor and lapse, its reflecting gaze having decayed.
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Irish itinerant gambler, called in that country a "carrow," than of the
The Antiquary — Volume 01
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This is not to say we didn't get our share of itinerant whackos.
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Thus equipped as an itinerant clock repairer, and having a few watches to "dicker" with, he started on foot for Jenkintown, a small place twelve miles from
The Expressman and the Detective
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The villagers hired as protectors seven itinerant warriors.
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With the weed-spraying business she had to cook and wash and iron and generally look after hordes of itinerant workmen, as well as her own sons and husband.
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All round the arena rose the cries of itinerant merchants: 'Iced malvoisie,' 'Score-cards; ye cannot tell the jousters without a score-card.'
The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
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Trading standards officials in North Yorkshire are warning householders about teams of itinerant asphalt-laying gangs operating in the county.
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They were evangelists, missionaries and itinerant ministers living in an unholy era of subjugation, poverty and the dark brutal forces of the slaveocracy.
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There was a man, standing near Danlo, an itinerant cantor of the Order dressed all in grey.
THE BROKEN GOD
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She might as well have been an itinerant pony or a muck-drenched lurcher for all the pains he took to preserve her dignity.
BEHINDLINGS
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The alert follows a flood of complaints about itinerant traders who charge extortionate prices for bitumen coverings for drives.
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The people of Navarre around the 14th century pitchforked, chased and killed the Gypsies (Rom), itinerant wanderers who were different and were blamed for the plague.
How Witch Hunts Came to Be « Colleen Anderson
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Mr. Wang is the kind of itinerant worker found in China by the millions, wandering from city to city in these boom years, and so it was chance that brought him home two days before the quake.
Expressing Emotions about the Sichuan Earthquake « Peace Corps: China
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They have been replaced by itinerants, travelling in big American pick-ups towing huge, gaudy modern caravans.
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Is there a threshold below which we would have to judge Mark "pure fiction," even if a historical person named Jesus existed, had some kind of itinerant ministry in Galilee and the surrounding area, and was crucified in Jerusalem under Pilate?
Is There Evidence For Mythicism?
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The men were a mixed crew, many of them itinerants.
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Born in San Francisco, he was the son of an itinerant astrologer and a spiritualist mother.
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Particularly in the north of England and Scotland the word tinker was applied not only to people who roamed around fixing kitchenware, but to any vagrant or itinerant.
Podictionary - for word lovers - dictionary etymology, trivia & history
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The religious duties included the offering of oblations to itinerant monks who preached the belief.
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Itinerant malcontent Ben Rumson saves the life of a stranger injured in a runaway wagon accident.
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We have had our share of itinerant carpetbaggers who had dubious magistrate credentials.
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He noted that the Bible was full of people on the move, including Mary and Joseph, the parents of Jesus — and that his office is tasked with dealing with all "itinerant" people — from refugees to prostitutes, truck drivers to the homeless.
The Vatican Issues 10 Commandments for Drivers | Impact Lab
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They were itinerant farm labourers.
Times, Sunday Times
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The person who achieved it was not a famous master but an itinerant stonecarver of mandalas and sacred texts.
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He came alone to Australia at the age of 16 and for some years he worked as an itinerant stockman on cattle stations in central Queensland and the Gulf country.
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He worked itinerantly all over the country, but has never had an apartment of his own, or even -- this amazed me -- a photo I.D. (These days, you need a photo I.D. to get the birth certificate you need to get a photo I.D. It's a classic Catch-22.)
Mark Olmsted: My Brother's Keeper
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But we are rapidly becoming a society of religious boulevardiers, always on the move, not as itinerant monks who bring our faith with us, but as God-shoppers on the lookout for the best deal.
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Her biographers have suggested that Clare had hoped to join the friars in their itinerant life--a kind of Maid Marian with a vocation.
RIDDLE ME THIS
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Through this decade it lobbied for the appointment of an itinerant woman missioner who could travel around the ‘back-blocks’ areas of New Zealand spreading the gospel and providing contact for isolated women.
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Little Benjie seemed somewhat dismayed at my appearance; but, calculating on my placability, and remembering, perhaps, that the ill-used Solomon was no palfrey of mine, he speedily affected great glee, and almost in one breath assured the itinerants that I was 'a grand gentleman, and had plenty of money, and was very kind to poor folk; 'and informed me that this was' Willie Steenson -- Wandering Willie the best fiddler that ever kittled thairm with horse-hair. '
Redgauntlet
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itinerant labor
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Her new name reflects not the past, but the future she carves out for herself: she would be an itinerant preacher, sojourning in various places and telling the truth to various audiences.
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Remember how, in response to the depredations of bandits, the villagers hired as protectors seven itinerant warriors.
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Of uncertain origins, he was one of the community of émigré musicians who made an itinerant orchestral career in Britain, playing a variety of wind and string instruments, the fortepiano, and the cittern.
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The difference between the regular trader and the _coureur des bois_, (as the French call the itinerant or peddling traders,) with respect to the sale of spirits, is here, as it always has been, fixed and permanent, and growing out of the nature of their trade.
The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources
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The well-known itinerant painter Rufus Porter offered the following instructions on how to make a stencil and use it to decorate a floor or a floorcloth.
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Itinerant merchants traveled the backcountry buying or trading dried apples.
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Both men had unorthodox, itinerant upbringings.
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Insurance life rate term journeyer to itinerant platelike corner in all interloper of slouch goma and arduously for sandarac pike entomion.
Rational Review
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You wonder if it might help with his itinerant lifestyle, which does seem the biggest challenge.
Times, Sunday Times
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These homespun medications were sold by itinerant hucksters, pharmacies, and whoever could spellbind a listener with lofty promises of cure.
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Gillard had few friends, looked up to and trusted Preston, depended on him, drank to excess, itinerant, living in shelters and hostels.
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an itinerant judge
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The Chalice Quilt was made by slaves on a Texas plantation in 1860 in anticipation of a visit from an itinerant bishop.
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The public have not been in a position to form a view about the quality of Scottish justice in this case as proceedings are represented only through the fleeting visits of itinerant journalists.
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In the 1890s Montrealers bought milk, ice, bread, buns, fries and popcorn from itinerant street vendors.
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One of the principal personages in the comic part of the drama was, as we have already said, a quaestionary or pardoner, one of those itinerants who hawked about from place to place relics, real or pretended, with which he excited the devotion at once, and the charity of the populace, and generally deceived both the one and the other.
The Abbot
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My father was an itinerant worker.
Christianity Today
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Music-making was mainly in the hands of a few itinerant singers and entertainers at fairs and in taverns.
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We would need to create the impression that we were itinerants of this sort.
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And are equally enamoured of their son's itinerant showbiz lifestyle, it seems.
Times, Sunday Times
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Itinerant peddlers took rags and bones from customers in trade for manufactured goods.
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One definition of itinerant is - traveling from place to place, especially to perform work or a duty.
Itinerant functionality and StrinGLEs
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~266~~Cassius looked as if he had been cashiered by the commander of some strolling company of itinerants for one, whose placid face could neither move to woe, nor yield grimace; and yet they were all accounted excellent likenesses, perfect originals, like Wombwell's bonassus, only not quite so natural.
The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life
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This feeling of dislocation makes him an ideal writer to disembroil this much misunderstood itinerant world.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fo had developed the play - a series of episodes in the manner of Mystery Plays - over 15 to 20 years when researching the life of jongleurs, itinerant street entertainers.
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Little Benjie seemed somewhat dismayed at my appearance; but, calculating on my placability, and remembering, perhaps, that the ill-used Solomon was no palfrey of mine, he speedily affected great glee, and almost in one breath assured the itinerants that I was 'a grand gentleman, and had plenty of money, and was very kind to poor folk; 'and informed me that this was' Willie Steenson -- Wandering Willie the best fiddler that ever kittled thairm with horse-hair. '
Redgauntlet
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We're reminded that until recently coaches retained some romantic cachet, whether steered by voyaging hippies, flying pickets, football fans or itinerant ravers.
Tonight's TV highlights: Michel Roux's Service | Midsomer Murders | Teenage Paparazzo | Timeshift: The Modern Age Of Coach Travel | The Man Who Drew Bug-Eyed Monsters | Breaking Bad
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Later, we went for a wander along the mall - as usual, dozens of itinerants were in evidence.
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Even as late as the second half of the nineteenth century, glasses were provided by itinerant pedlars.
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Pat loves the haggle that goes with buying and selling a car; he calls his breed the last true itinerants.
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The most obvious category of jobs of this kind is that of itinerant jobs, such as a commercial traveller.
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The island had responded particularly to the fervent missionary work of the itinerant Baptist preachers in the early years of the century.
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When the war ended these same itinerants took to the roads.
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Daily ritual emerges in the photographs of those itinerants who made the exodus to cities in search of a better life.
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And are equally enamoured of their son's itinerant showbiz lifestyle, it seems.
Times, Sunday Times
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Three disused sites in the city centre were invaded by itinerants during March.
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Recently, itinerant workers have moved into the trade, at the risk of being exploited by gangmasters.
