How to Use peripatetic in a Sentence

peripatetic

adjective
  • She worked as a peripatetic journalist for most of her life.
  • He had a peripatetic career as a salesman.
  • This is only the latest twist on a peripatetic word that has traveled through many lands and languages.
    — Ben Zimmer, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Ghirelli, 45, has had a peripatetic career.
    — Giacomo Tognini, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • This wasn’t how it was supposed to turn out for the peripatetic Patterson.
    — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Dahl is a peripatetic writer based, at the moment, in Brooklyn.
    — Kieran Dahl, Washington Post, 30 June 2020
  • The peripatetic life of an actor means that long distance is an inevitability for the duo.
    — Christopher Wallenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2018
  • Karl has been a peripatetic adventurer and history buff for most of his eighty years.
    — Hillary Angelo, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022
  • Our peripatetic army of street girls know the convention schedules around town better than the hotel guards.
    — Gail Sheehy, Daily Intelligencer, 8 Sep. 2017
  • His brief, but peripatetic résumé has informed his stump speeches, which are peppered with calls for bold reform.
    — Lisa W. Foderaro, New York Times, 29 June 2018
  • At 21, already an avid and peripatetic soap salesman, he was given a share of the business.
    — Frank Fitzpatrick, Philly.com, 20 May 2017
  • The urge to save fading memories from oblivion opens him to anyone who crosses his peripatetic path.
    — Colin Thubron, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
  • But the improved road means a less peripatetic life, with less time spent on the lower-altitude winter pastures.
    — Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2022
  • This is a full-circle revolution, in a way, for this peripatetic gallerist and a chance to take things to the next level.
    — John Zotos, Dallas News, 8 Sep. 2021
  • All and all, the past year has been a time of Glass lost and Glass found, the first time a peripatetic composer stopped in his tracks.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2021
  • Hunter was born Robert Burns and had a peripatetic childhood, including some time in a foster home.
    — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2019
  • The 55-year-old speaks in a faint, untraceable accent that hints at her peripatetic upbringing.
    — Meredith Blake Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Marked by wide-ranging business ventures, grand gestures and righteous causes, his peripatetic life was driven by the joy in whims.
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2021
  • His peripatetic inability to stay cool is a real danger in the most powerful person in the world.
    — Orange County Register, 22 Jan. 2017
  • The Crosbys were one of those peripatetic Navy families, with postings all over the country and the world.
    — Brian Williams, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Mar. 2018
  • True, there are many bits along the way that detail the quirks of Williams’s peripatetic life and his wild inventory of acquaintances.
    — Ethan Mordden, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Cope White, a cheerful Texan raised by a peripatetic single mother, joined the Marines with his straight best friend.
    — Bob Morris, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
  • While the life of a filmmaker is peripatetic at best, Iñárritu and his wife, with their two children out of the nest, are trying to decide where to live.
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Picasso's mural, after a peripatetic life around the world, only made its way home in 1981.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2017
  • And Witold, who leads the peripatetic life of a travelling artist, must serve as a local trinket, a curio, for the global flow of commerce.
    — Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
  • At least for now, no Biden has sued the peripatetic Rudy Giuliani for libel and character defamation.
    — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 2 Nov. 2020
  • For the next 50 years, Black baseball would be a tenuous, peripatetic enterprise.
    — New York Times, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Like Waterboy, Hawks has retained a core group of employees for years – a feat in such a peripatetic industry.
    — Carla Meyer, sacbee, 17 Aug. 2017
  • Modern audiences might know the story of Odysseus’s peripatetic journey home to Ithaca from any of its many film versions.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 July 2026
  • For the peripatetic owners of this new-build Michigan lake house, creating a constant in their always-on-the-move lifestyle was paramount.
    — Rhonda Reinhart, Country Living, 8 Sep. 2023

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