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
They were free, but visitors to what was sort of a one-stop office for spaced-out foreign wayfarers without cash or credit cards were asked to make a donation.
From Seattle Times ● May 7, 2021
I offer this story to ask, will we build homes with open sides that welcome wayfarers into our lives?
From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2018
But in the Rio Grande Valley, a porous frontier traveled by illicit wayfarers throughout history, the new influx of children and parents from Central America has been most immediately a reason to get to work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2014
She lay in wait for the wayfarers along the roads to the city and whomever she seized she put a riddle to, telling him if he could answer it, she would let him go.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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