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

Let your house be wide open, and open on all sides to welcome wayfarers.

From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2018

The communities who had accepted the strangers as wayfarers wanting to help them did not see it coming.

From The Guardian • Sep. 17, 2015

When wayfarers were met, it was as if they had appeared by magic, out of nowhere.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli