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Example sentences for "roaming"

Lexicographically close words:
roadsters; roadway; roadways; roam; roamed; roams; roan; roans; roar; roared
  1. He saw, weighed down by woe and care, The victim charger roaming there.

  2. I trust you have laid in a good stock of provisions, for I see you intend making this consecrated grove your game-preserve, and will be roaming here in quest of sport for some time to come.

  3. The Deer, roaming unrestrained, happy and fat of carcase, was one day descried by a Jackal.

  4. If he hadn't gone roaming the streets at night--" Rosie came close to the table.

  5. This he might have done had not the bay mare Delia, unaccustomed to the sight of young ladies roaming alone at night, thought it the part of propriety to shy.

  6. Roaming at will through the village are pigs and poultry, geese and cattle, and the inevitable "pi dog" of the country.

  7. For the rest, the time between the sowing and reaping is passed enclosed in large pens or roaming by hundreds in the jungle.

  8. He teaches himself to draw and paint, and makes his living, now as the gifted Romantic dilettante artist, now as the no less Romantic musician, roaming from village to village.

  9. He had resumed his roaming life in the woods, and, though he did not hide, could never be found.

  10. In truth, he was in the habit of roaming about the country every year.

  11. The rest merely affirmed that a "monk bearing a resemblance to the Mauprats" had been roaming about Varenne at the period in question, and that he had even appeared to hide himself on the evening of the event.

  12. Carver, in white trousers and a crimson Gordon sweater, was idly roaming about the ranch in search of any diversion which might present itself, and which did not require any too much exertion.

  13. We didn't even know 'twas there--just stumbled upon it while we were roaming around in search of adventure.

  14. He was fond of roaming the country alone for hours together; he was fond of reading.

  15. Desmond was for some time tormented by the doleful yells of packs of jackals roaming abroad in search of food.

  16. My father hardly ever stayed at home, he was constantly roaming about.

  17. I was never tired of roaming about among those miniature hills and dales in hopes of lighting on something never known before.

  18. They speak of the sky-pervading sorrow which lowers in the darkness of clouds; the speechless deep intoxication of the forest-roaming spring.

  19. You see the cruel jaws of the trap mutilate their leg, and pain so much when they struggle that in desperation they bite at it until they get away; and after that a three-legged fox is found roaming the woods.

  20. Instead, here she was roaming the woods with those half-wild Cottons, trying to keep her boots clean and her pretty white dress free from rents and stains.

  21. In spirit she was roaming olden ways, with feet grown young.

  22. A few days after, the Lion, while roaming by night, fell into a trap.

  23. Roaming beasts Cower in their dens affrighted, while she quakes Convuls'd with inward agony, or reels Dizzied with flashing fires.

  24. They are roaming about in every direction, I believe.

  25. He only tired himself out for nothing, roaming from place to place; and was all the time lonely, and sad too, not having any home.

  26. But she was roaming still when he concluded his inquiry.

  27. He produced these objections slowly, giving her time, by his pauses, to stop roaming and come back to him.

  28. There came to her, confusedly, some echo of an ancient fable--some vision of Io goaded by the gadfly or of Ariadne roaming the lone sea-strand.

  29. Do ye think he will now be more merciful to you, when he is roaming about with such a bad crew, after committing devastations which all who followed him dissuaded him from?

  30. I looked into the garden; it was deserted, and the mid-day wind was roaming among the flowers.

  31. It is the pilgrim we were used to see For penance roaming 'neath our palm-trees' shade, Till at the Holy Grave he might be free.

  32. The house becomes a kind of pandemonium, and the girls rush desperately forth to the wild life of the streets, or the boys gradually prefer the roaming existence of the little city-Arab to such a quarrelsome home.

  33. At this period I became a vagrant, roaming over all parts of the city.

  34. They had been roaming about together, exploring the country, and came in now full of excitement and enthusiasm to tell us what they had found.

  35. They were beggars and vagabonds who were roaming over the country, led by their duke and their counts.

  36. So they were roaming about the world seeking and searching for this beauty, and, after having successively rejected the Queen of Golconda, the Princess of Trebizonde, the daughter of the Grand Khan of Tartary, etc.

  37. Sometimes too, far-distant specks resolve themselves into the cattle, roaming at will over the boundless plain.

  38. In every part of the city you see tame bulls, roaming about at will, who are yet never killed by the Hindu.

  39. One contingency the countrydweller prepared grimly against: roaming hordes of the hungry from the towns, driven to plunder by starvation which they were too shiftless to alleviate by purchasing concentrates, for sale everywhere.

  40. Roaming the law courts with Mr. Bradlaugh, I was able to see his intimate knowledge of legal practice.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "roaming" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    discursion; discursive; drifting; errant; errantry; flitting; floating; fugitive; itinerancy; itinerant; meandering; migratory; nomad; nomadism; ramble; rambling; roaming; rove; roving; shifting; straggling; stray; straying; strolling; transient; transitory; vagabond; vagrancy; vagrant; wandering; wanderlust