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

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

A self-described wanderer, he has lived in Phoenix on and off for about 20 years.

From Scientific American • Jul. 17, 2023

When he had gone and passed again into the outer world, still Frodo the wanderer from the Shire would walk there, upon the grass among elanor and niphredil in fair Lothlórien.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien