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Example sentences for "wandered"

Lexicographically close words:
wan; wance; wanchee; wand; wander; wanderer; wanderers; wanderest; wandereth; wandering
  1. They wandered about almost aimlessly for nearly half-an-hour.

  2. The Professor had wandered off somewhere into the darkness and the girls were seated a little apart.

  3. They wandered into the fragrant dimness of the pergola, and sat down.

  4. I lunched at the Club, and at four o'clock wandered aimlessly down the Mall in the vague hope of meeting Kitty.

  5. By day I wandered with Mrs. Wessington almost content.

  6. Aunt Polly had sent Bobby a little watch and he could "tell time" nicely; so no matter how far they wandered they had no excuse for not coming back to the bungalow when Mother Blossom set them a time limit.

  7. Meg waited quietly, and Bobby was interested in watching the big machine that ground coffee, but the irrepressible twins wandered off to investigate the long row of bins with sliding covers that filled one side of the store.

  8. He wandered in the forest of Long Expectation; he embarked on the vessel Good Tidings.

  9. I have wandered through the fat meadows of Normandy to Rouen with its steeples and towers, its ancient charnel houses, its damp streets, its last remaining timbered houses with high gables.

  10. For four days she had wandered alone, until Luk had discovered her.

  11. He turned back to the sleigh, and his eyes wandered across, beyond it, to the brink of the precipice.

  12. His gaze wandered in the direction Hervey had taken, and a troubled look came into his calm eyes.

  13. Instead of that I wandered on till I found the empty pack got too heavy, then I left it.

  14. Then he wandered over to Granada, and so on to the coast and Barcelona, and at last to Paris.

  15. If that is true," said Kent, thoughtfully, "we have just wandered around in a big circle and come around in back of the lodge instead of approaching it from the side.

  16. Two chimneys rose straight through the attic, and Mac wandered around restlessly.

  17. Then Barry began to order supplies, and Kent wandered to the window, looking down into the road.

  18. I wandered up the cool water's side, and I found this cavern, and thought I would rest a while in the cool grotto till the evening came.

  19. Ellen was reading a book in an abstracted way, and her eye often wandered from its pages to the road; too often not to show her heart was not with her book.

  20. The scene where she had been so happy was before her, the burn up whose banks she had wandered rushed by; but how different was her present lot!

  21. Fauvel wandered through the rooms in search of the card-table, the usual refuge of bored men, when they are enticed to the ball-room by their womankind.

  22. His mind had wandered far from the present scene, when he was brought back to his situation by someone touching him on the shoulder.

  23. Then, though her eyes were rapturous and gay again, her mind wandered further afield in broken sentences.

  24. She went into the kitchen and watched the servant wrestle inadequately with her work, then wandered back to the parlor and slammed the lid of the trunk down to shut out the reproach of her mother's possessions.

  25. They had wandered arm in arm through the green alleys and orderly byways of the mellow suburb, dreaming away all sense of time and space.

  26. Bedtime came with Valerie taking, it seemed, hours to undress as she wandered round the room in a maze of white lace and pink ribbons.

  27. Maurice got up from his chair and wandered round the room in search of note-paper.

  28. With them she wandered far afield from Hagworth Street; with them she tripped along on many a marauding expedition.

  29. After tea they all wandered round the studio in commentary of its contents.

  30. Every day the sisters went for long walks, and when May was tired she would sit on the beach, while Jenny wandered on by the waves' edge.

  31. So while Heracles wandered searching for him, a fair breeze sprang up, and Heracles was nowhere to be found; and the Argo sailed away, and Heracles was left behind, and never saw the noble Phasian stream.

  32. So he wandered no more; but settled, and built a town, and became a king again.

  33. And there they wandered starving for many a weary day, ere they could launch their ship again, and gain the open sea.

  34. Then he thanked the Nymphs, and asked them, 'By what road shall I go homeward again, for I wandered far round in coming hither?

  35. And through the lawn a streamlet sparkled and wandered out beyond the trees, and vanished in the sand.

  36. Now one day at Samos, while the ship was lading, Perseus wandered into a pleasant wood to get out of the sun, and sat down on the turf and fell asleep.

  37. She wandered from the dining-room to her sitting-room upstairs; from the sitting-room across the vestibule to the drawing-room.

  38. Maria, debarred from assisting, wandered in her restlessness through some of the more familiar rooms.

  39. And following the complicated directions she received, she wandered onward, through a kitchen-garden, and into a small nursery beyond it.

  40. And so he wandered on to thoughts of his former companionship with him.

  41. Alice in her wanderings never wandered into bewilderment more profound than such a mixture of ideas.

  42. These five had to wait till the fresh milk came in, as their food was special; that evening the cows had wandered home with more than their usual leisureliness from their pasture out in the jungle, and so the milk was late.

  43. We sent at once to try to find the mother; but she had wandered off, and no one knew her home.

  44. A Hindu woman known to us left home with her little daughter and wandered about as an ascetic.

  45. Moreover the Levites that went away far from me, when the children of Israel went astray, and have wandered from me after their idols, and have borne their iniquity: 44:11.

  46. I wandered about among the booths, and I might have derived a lesson from my actual feelings, how much the charms of this world depend upon ourselves; for I no longer saw anything gay or delightful in the revelry around me.

  47. Having wandered through the fair, we emerged, like another Adam and Eve, into unknown regions, and "had the world before us where to choose.

  48. He neglected all his concerns, was moody and restless all day, lost his appetite; wandered in his thoughts and words, and committed a thousand blunders.

  49. I wandered for several weeks in the mountains which surround Prossedi, and found means to inform my wife of the place where I was concealed.

  50. I fled to the Apennines, and wandered for days and days among their savage heights.

  51. For four months Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Sherrod wandered over Europe.

  52. All the morning he wandered about State and Clark Streets, Wabash Avenue, and the Lake Front.

  53. Sharp rebuffs, amused smiles, and sarcastic rejoinders met his innocent queries as he wandered aimlessly about the station, carrying his ungainly "telescope.

  54. After this Abdullah wandered for a long time with the Bedouins who accompanied him, often changing his direction, so that they wondered whither he was leading them, and began to question him.


  55. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wandered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    wandered about; wandered lonely