WAYFARER in a Sentence

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They are pioneers, these sweaty wayfarers, for all their telephones and bank-accounts and automatic pianos and co-operative leagues.

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 Meanings and Examples of WAYFARER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
wayfarer
 n.  traveller, especially one on foot
Classic Sentence:
1  It was difficult to encounter a wayfarer of more wretched appearance.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
2  There was nothing in the field or on the hill except a deformed tree, which writhed and shivered a few paces distant from the wayfarer.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
3  It was the wayfarer whom we have seen wandering about in search of shelter.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
4  The mother raised her head and thanked her, and bade the wayfarer sit down on the bench at the door, she herself being seated on the threshold.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
5  The wayfarer bent over and examined a rather large circular excavation, resembling the hollow of a sphere, in the stone on the left, at the foot of the pier of the door.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES
6  She saw the wayfarer, and perceived what he was looking at.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES
7  He said that a wayfarer should meet me and ask me whether it was a winnowing shovel that I had on my shoulder.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XXIII
8  She returned wearily to the thought of Percy Gryce, as a wayfarer picks up a heavy load and toils on after a brief rest.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
9  The boy who addressed this inquiry to the young wayfarer, was about his own age: but one of the queerest looking boys that Oliver had even seen.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
10  The road, after the two wayfarers had crossed from the Peninsula to the mainland, was no other than a foot-path.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XVI. A FOREST WALK
11  They are pioneers, these sweaty wayfarers, for all their telephones and bank-accounts and automatic pianos and co-operative leagues.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
12  Loud as it was, it was not sufficient to rouse the two tired wayfarers above them.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
13  Partial relatives have almost persuaded me that I am not entirely worthless in a duet myself; and we may enliven our wayfaring by indulging in our favorite pursuit.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
Example Sentence:
1  But could these wacky wayfarers carry an entire movie on their own, or would they be doomed to eternal second-bananahood, relegated to supporting tacky villains who lacked their ineffable effervescence?