How to Use wandering in a Sentence

wandering

1 of 2 adjective
  • No wandering, no project creep.
    — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2025
  • My bottom teeth lean this way and that in a wandering line, like first graders on a field trip.
    — Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
  • After spending a few days, a wandering light leads them to the next world.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Safe from my siblings' wandering eyes.
    — Maria Giesbrecht, PEOPLE, 11 May 2026
  • When what to my wandering eyes was revealed but a gaudy red Cybertruck hitched to eight seals.
    — Chas Dye, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Like a lot of messy divorces, this started with a wandering eye, a lover scorned and boils down to the money.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Same with the trick-or-treating, which grew out of the food and sweets left out to appease the wandering spirits.
    — Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 28 Oct. 2025
  • MacFarland did not have a wandering eye, and was not looking to leave.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 7 June 2026
  • Planets were 'wandering stars', while comets were 'hairy stars' or 'broom stars' to the Chinese.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Butler has lived a wandering football life ever since.
    — Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 19 June 2026
  • For the best introduction to the city, get wandering!
    — Jaymi McCann, TheWeek, 8 May 2026
  • Even a wandering horse, after all, still moves the caravan forward.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Are there other suggestions for managing my wandering eyes while on the couch?
    — Miss Manners | Judith Martin, Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2023
  • Two days before the wandering eye appeared, Bean had taken a minor tumble from a tall bed.
    — Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Oct. 2025
  • The children were completely free and wandering, no one hitting marks, just playing and just being.
    — Gerrad Hall, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Dec. 2025
  • This full-sun outdoor container stars a wandering dude vine with bold purple, green, and silver foliage.
    — Johanna Silver, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Others described sightings of a woman dressed in black wandering hallways, gardens and along the seashore.
    — Noreen Kompanik, Boston Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
  • This isn’t a facsimile of a woman’s wandering mind seen through a speculum by a man, but a deep recounting.
    — Jane Alison june 17, Literary Hub, 17 June 2025
  • Many rivers meandered over this plain, and over the millennia their wandering channels dug a series of basins into it.
    — Robert Kunzig, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
  • Keiji is a wandering chicken in Japan seeking revenge against demons for the murder of his sister.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 13 Mar. 2026
  • These misunderstood, wandering arachnids are often simply young males in search of love.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA Today, 28 July 2025
  • And the team found that artificial traps with feathers around them captured more wandering arthropods than those without.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Scientific American, 8 Nov. 2019
  • By being at the foothills of the Appalachians an occasional wandering bear had come through, but not wild hogs.
    — Michael C. Bolton, al, 21 July 2023
  • The wandering crocs are not the only examples of animals that were able to survive on islands far longer than on the mainland.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2025
  • Misunderstood, wandering arachnids are often just in search of love.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 29 July 2025
  • Not pitching in a Cactus League game meant fewer wandering eyeballs.
    — Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Off-season on the island is less about waiting in line for a table and more about wandering, listening, and letting the town show you its soul.
    — Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Mora will not arrive at CSU with a wandering eye, looking for the next big paycheck.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Though captured with a handheld wandering camera, each frame is composed with immense formal control.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 12 Apr. 2026
  • And there’s even an AI Kevin O’Leary wandering cyberspace.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2025

wandering

2 of 2 noun
  • His dad, Jon, could emerge from his room at any time, asleep and wandering.
    — Lydia Woolever, Popular Mechanics, 28 Nov. 2018
  • The trick here, though, is that this isn't mindless wandering or an ode to the city's nightlife.
    — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 17 May 2018
  • Cattle egrets are rare here, but a wandering bird shows up every few years.
    — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 11 July 2018
  • The note helped the library staff make sense of a recent trend of strange book wanderings.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Nov. 2019
  • However, mind-wandering can go awry, and this can be bad for your health.
    — The Conversation, oregonlive, 5 Jan. 2021
  • The tracking program helped slow his wandering, but could not stop it.
    — New York Times, 8 Feb. 2022
  • But there was this sense (the characters) were all kind of wandering.
    — James Hebert, sandiegouniontribune.com, 6 Apr. 2018
  • This is a band that can sing about the related pleasures of wandering and a sense of home.
    — John Adamian, courant.com, 2 July 2018
  • Although mind-wandering seems to decrease with age, it can be nurtured.
    — Washington Post, 12 July 2021
  • Death, ignominy, loss of my home, my land, my people and endless wandering.
    — Literary Hub, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Her wandering, and the fear that went with it, became part of her writing discipline.
    — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 29 Mar. 2021
  • After a day filled with wandering, plop yourself down for a piña colada.
    — David Jefferys, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Prepared to be shocked at what Apple and Google know about your wanderings.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2023
  • That’s how the evening passed, the first of my sobriety—with wandering and wanting and saying no.
    — Longreads, 20 June 2018
  • Our strength was about gone, and our wanderings would have ended somewhere along the Wabigoon.
    — Elwyn "bud" Myers, Outdoor Life, 11 Mar. 2026
  • For years, his life has been a revolving door of jail stints, shelters and couches, and street-wanderings.
    — Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2017
  • But that session with his squad was disrupted by the 50-year-old wandering in and out of the room.
    — Roshane Thomas, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2025
  • One of the most bizarre story lines is Taissa’s nighttime wanderings.
    — Rose Minutaglio, ELLE, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Just the slightest wandering glance away from the field would put me at a profound disadvantage.
    — Conor Orr, SI.com, 16 Jan. 2018
  • Just notice the wandering, let its distraction be okay, and gently bring it back to the words on the printed page.
    — Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 4 Jan. 2026
  • The wandering of these electrons across a battery cell is what generates a current.
    — Gregory Barber, Wired, 1 Feb. 2022
  • This space is perfect for a dog who likes to romp and for dog owners who don’t want to worry about a wandering dog or don’t have time for a walk.
    — Joan Walden, courant.com, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Though now walking a familiar route home, the sensation of wandering does not abate.
    — Leslie Kendall Dye, Longreads, 23 June 2018
  • Biden speaks to crowds like a desperate wandering priest, holding an Obama icon above his head to find the way.
    — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 13 Sep. 2019
  • The locals were welcoming, and our unplanned time turned out to be a sweet surrender to the joys of wandering.
    — Alice Short, latimes.com, 27 May 2018
  • Danner is a great shoe brand, and these waterproof boots are a nice option for all your own stomping and garden-wandering.
    — Madison Durham, USA TODAY, 22 June 2020
  • With it, those wanderings can generate insight.
    — Rick Burton, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The fourth and final stage is collapse, irrelevance, and a wandering search for the future.
    — Ganesh Sitaraman, The New Republic, 23 Dec. 2019
  • The Irish capital invites leisurely wanderings, with stops for music, art and top-flight pubs and grub.
    — Matthew Kronsberg, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Barring some extreme change, this second period of faith will soon have lasted longer than my years of atheist wandering.
    — Christopher Beha, New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2026

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