wanderer

Example Sentences

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Around 1897 Rasputin left home and took on the life of a strannik, or wanderer in search of God.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

He’s a wanderer in a Bruckner forest — sometimes lost and being lost, newly in awe.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2025

When a lost wanderer on a four-wheeler comes looking for directions, however, Beth flees with Helena on the vehicle to the police, leading to Jacob’s arrest.

From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2023

The histone acetyltransferase MOF, an enzyme and a classical epigenetic regulator, is such a wanderer between these two worlds.

From Science Daily • Oct. 9, 2023

Here are excerpts from three of Ruess’s letters: I have been thinking more and more that I shall always be a lone wanderer of the wilderness.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer