[
US
/ˈwɑndɝɪŋ/
]
[ UK /wˈɒndəɹɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /wˈɒndəɹɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
migratory
wandering tribes
believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future
a restless mobile society
the nomadic habits of the Bedouins -
having no fixed course
a planetary vagabond
an erratic comet
his life followed a wandering course -
of a path e.g.
a winding country road
rambling forest paths
the river followed its wandering course
meandering streams
NOUN
-
travelling about without any clear destination
she followed him in his wanderings and looked after him
How To Use wandering In A Sentence
- The wandering wraiths, addicts and drunks that you see around town didn't just come about out of the blue - they were produced by the education system.
- Marie has an active fantasy life, and the imaginings of the specter of her husband seem to be just the start of her mind's wandering.
- At this point, however, the quartet was wandering in a perfumed garden of psychedelic modishness, and all the better for it.
- I'm just still in a daze, wandering round the town centre at lunch, like some half-cut junkie, drunk on death.
- The thought of that virus wandering about in my hindbrain did not please me.
- Brooke's poems were published in 1911, and after a year wandering in the North America and the South Seas, he was commissioned into the Royal Navy.
- But they were not used to wandering by themselves, in the manner of the later homeless children.
- the river followed its wandering course
- Somewhere down the road, somebody got it into their head that kids won't watch it unless the themes are saccharine, the voices high and squawky, and there just happens to be some kind of jabbering animal wandering around. A review for INK
- One correction, the wildlife manager says there hasn't been a documented sighting since 1990, but the Honolulu Advertiser noted a wandering wallaby in 2002. Kalihi Wallabies
