adventurer

Example Sentences

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And he was very much an adventurer, right?

From Slate • Mar. 2, 2026

TV adventurer Bear Grylls is starring in a new BBC reality series set in the Welsh wilderness.

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026

Popular images, such as the fearless adventurer, powerful fighter and skilled seafarer, have become familiar.

From Science Daily • Nov. 23, 2025

He draws on the photographer’s diaries and autobiography to portray his subject as a gentle-souled adventurer, driven into a peripatetic life by wanderlust and financial necessity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025

The novelty of the new world brought forth the adventurer in him—he wanted to see it all, the whole city, what had become of it.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers