WANDER in a Sentence

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When I wander, her gentler spirit ever restores me, and keeps before my eyes the Christian calling and mission of our race.

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 Meanings and Examples of WANDER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
wander
 v.  move about without a definite destination or purpose; range about; stroll; go away; depart
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  There, while Mrs. Gormer plunged into problems of lighting and sanitation, Lily had leisure to wander, in the bright autumn air, along the tree-fringed bay to which the land declined.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
2  Nine-tenths of the American towns are so alike that it is the completest boredom to wander from one to another.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
3  The two girls would wander for miles along the edge of the cornfields, hunting for ground-cherries.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IV
4  When Ole was cultivating his corn that summer, he used to get discouraged in the field, tie up his team, and wander off to wherever Lena Lingard was herding.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
5  The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In VI
6  She let her mind wander back over her stay at Grand Isle; and she tried to discover wherein this summer had been different from any and every other summer of her life.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XIV
7  She liked then to wander alone into strange and unfamiliar places.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XIX
8  The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXIX
9  Others, who have been drinking still more, wander about the room, bumping into everything; some are in groups of two or three, singing, each group its own song.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
10  For a week after he became a convert Jurgis continued to wander about all day, looking for work; until at last he met with a strange fortune.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 30
11  If anything could add to my own base love of life," said Heyward, suffering his unconscious eyes to wander to the youthful form of the silent Alice, "it would be so kind an assurance.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7
12  Then, permitting his looks to wander over the silent throng that crowded around the elevated seat of Tamenund, he first perceived Hawkeye in his bonds.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 30
13  When I wander, her gentler spirit ever restores me, and keeps before my eyes the Christian calling and mission of our race.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
14  I fancied you might be going to tell me I ought to be more attentive, and not allow my thoughts to wander.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
15  After the lapse of a week or so, the Jew left the room-door unlocked; and he was at liberty to wander about the house.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
Example Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1  We wander in some strange wilderness, aimlessly without direction.
2  A vagabond is at home nowhere because he wanders: a child should wander because it ought to be at home everywhere.
3  How she longed to get out of that dark hall, and wander about among those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains.
4  A unique design in a footpath that people, especially tourists, love to follow as they wander the downtown core of Saint John, New Brunswick.
5  I'll wander around the mall for half an hour.
6  You can't simply wander around squatting on other people's property.
7  A wander around any market will reveal stalls piled high with vegetables.
8  The child was found wandering the streets alone.
9  I felt my attention wandering during the lecture.
10  We spent the morning wandering around the old part of the city.
11  Her mind seemed to be wandering and she didn't recognize us.
12  Before we went to sleep, we needed to tether the horses to prevent their wandering off during the night.
13  There was something I wished to say, "The wandering look and changed utterance told what wreck had taken place in her once vigorous frame."
14  The entire film, filmed in a single unbroken Steadicam take, consists of an unnamed narrator wandering through the rooms of the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, where 300 years of Russian history are being acted out by a cast of thousands.
15  We wandered along the shore, stepping over the flotsam that had washed up in the night.