wayfarers

Example Sentences

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After 14 desperate days, the wayfarers surrendered to indigenous members of the tiny island of Tobi, who claimed them as slaves.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

The foreign fungi, perhaps a colony of wayfarers from the bag of golden oyster mycelium beside it, was gone and pink oysters began to emerge.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 7, 2021

Between bandits, militiamen, and wayfarers, Afrin is barely recognisable, say Kurdish locals who have made it back.

From The Guardian • Jun. 7, 2018

In 1799, the site became the Quarantine, where wayfarers suspected of having infectious diseases like smallpox, yellow fever, cholera and typhus were detained in hospitals and shanties.

From New York Times • Jul. 24, 2015

They reach toward Enrique and his fellow wayfarers on top of their rolling freight cars.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario