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Examples of wandering in a Sentence
your decidedly wandering essay loses its punch—stick to one theme
a wandering carnival that visited small towns all over the South
First Known Use of wandering
before 12th century
wandering Synonyms
Synonyms
desultory, digressional, digressionary, digressive, excursive, leaping, maundering, meandering, rambling, discursiveRelated Words
circuitous, deviating, devious, indirect, roundaboutNear Antonyms
coherent, consistent, logical; direct, focused (also focussed), straightforward, undeviatingRecent Examples of wandering from the Web
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And albums containing photos from my parents' wanderings: images of them young and stunningly beautiful.
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The probe was about to run out of fuel, so mission managers could no longer control its path—and there was a very real risk that a wandering spacecraft could crash into one of Saturn’s many moons and contaminate it with earthly debris.
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And who knows who else may have already secretly pleaded guilty and is at this very moment wandering around Washington wearing a wire.
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Antique chairs, textiles and eclectic artifacts are collected from his global wanderings.
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Even the game plan of TV producers and the wanderings of security personnel are charted onscreen.
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Listeners are invited to follow his wanderings, to take jumps between cultures and historical eras and even to leap between the here-and-now and the transcendent.
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Visit the gardens as part of your museum wanderings and find heirloom plantings like Johnny Jump-Ups and pie squash, and learn more about the American tradition of passing from generation to generation.
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Fittingly, the modern pilgrimage site also captured the wanderings of ancient humans.
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First Known Use of wandering
14th century
Medical Dictionary
medical Definition of wandering
: floating
- a wandering spleen
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