wayfarers

Example Sentences

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The foreign fungi, perhaps a colony of wayfarers from the bag of golden oyster mycelium beside it, was gone and pink oysters began to emerge.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 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

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

From The Guardian • Sep. 17, 2015

The peoples of the enclaves—long-term residents and wayfarers alike—soon joined together, geographically and genetically.

From Slate • May 18, 2015

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