How to Use nomad in a Sentence

nomad

noun
  • He lived like a nomad for a few years after college, never holding a job in one place for very long.
  • One by one the nomads' voices filled the ger with haunting songs.
    — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Mar. 2024
  • And keep in mind that the stakes are much lower as a digital nomad.
    — cleveland, 21 Feb. 2021
  • The 20-year-old had dropped out of college and bought a van to live as a nomad.
    — Guillermo Contreras, ExpressNews.com, 14 June 2019
  • Anoma has been a nomad the past four years, spending time at three different schools.
    — Marlowe Alter, Detroit Free Press, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Their real roots are on the battlefield, on the steppes, with the nomads.
    — Jacob Mikanowski, Harper's magazine, 21 July 2019
  • But the house is quiet again, and Sperling is no longer a nomad in her own home.
    — Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2021
  • The nomads, thankfully, nod and point toward a swell of hills.
    — Jason Harper, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 July 2018
  • Luplow has been a bit of a baseball nomad as a major leaguer.
    — José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 6 May 2022
  • America used to be a nation of nomads.
    — Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2026
  • El Centro has owned its building for three years but was a nomad before that.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Most nomads come and go within a month, but some are making the move more permanent.
    — Carla Vianna, Travel + Leisure, 29 Nov. 2025
  • Most of the population were nomads before their way of life was changed by colonists.
    — Vincent Kituku, idahostatesman, 2 June 2017
  • The career nomad was returning home with one of his best friends, ready to make an impact.
    — Akeem Glaspie, Indianapolis Star, 3 May 2020
  • Sometimes, though, nomads fall in love with a new country and want to stay forever.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Quartzsite is a central location, a home base for a group of nomads who wander from one job to the next.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The impression of being there yourself in the desert with the nomads.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Swankie plays a version of herself, a nomad who befriends Fern and spends some time with her.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 16 Mar. 2021
  • In the coming weeks, the modern-day nomads and others like them will have to find a new stealth campsite.
    — Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Their weapon, the Sarmat, is named for centuries-old nomads who traversed the steppe on horse.
    — Alfredo Sosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Feb. 2025
  • But, as offices demand their workers back, will this be the end of the digital nomad?
    — Ollie A Williams, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2021
  • This is our guide to living like a digital nomad in perhaps the best place on earth, both on and offline.
    — Sara Tardiff, ELLE Decor, 22 Nov. 2017
  • Many nomads jumped into the lifestyle without thinking long-term.
    — Rodolfo Delgado, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The nomads will pack up camp and return to their real home – the road – moving like blood cells through the veins of the country.
    — Janet Saidi, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2017
  • For over four months now, Leschyshyn has been living as a digital nomad in Berlin.
    — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2022
  • Some nomads have found a middle ground through working in tourism, like Bundhorol the horse wrangler.
    — Samantha Falewée, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Attendees can bring their laptops and get to work, living a week in the life of a digital nomad.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Swankie, a nomad who plays herself in the film, helped locate other options for the crew near Quartzsite.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 19 Feb. 2021
  • Not even the Bedouin nomads with their camels are visible, because there are too few of them amid the vast landscape.
    — Vivienne Walt, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Maybe next time, Zhao can raise the stakes on the heroic vibes by mixing in a drop of nomad reality.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 24 Oct. 2021

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