How to Use itinerant in a Sentence

itinerant

adjective
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  • For the rest of her days, Wells lived the life of an itinerant activist.
    — Faron Levesque, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2024
  • First came the purge that itinerant young adults know all too well.
    — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 23 Sep. 2022
  • In the shabby hotel room, an itinerant preacher has come to the end of the road.
    — Cynthia Zarin, The New Yorker, 22 May 2017
  • Just enough time, Drieghe adds, laughing, for the itinerant pair to move again.
    — Asad Syrkett, Curbed, 18 June 2018
  • Fern rebuilds an itinerant life from the ashes of that loss and the death of her husband.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 20 Feb. 2021
  • Since then, the United States Grand Prix has had an itinerant feel.
    — New York Times, 14 July 2022
  • After high school, Karen lived an itinerant life, city to city, man to man.
    — Brandon Sneed, Outside Online, 4 Apr. 2016
  • Bia and Banquo were the two constants of her itinerant 20s.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2022
  • Back at the park gate, an itinerant trader warns us to be careful.
    — Anthony Ham, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Sep. 2023
  • This itinerant way of life means that many of us can’t burden ourselves down with too much stuff.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021
  • They were sold to pombeiros—itinerant traders—and taken by canoe or marched to the coast from as far as 250 miles inland.
    — James Oakes, The New York Review of Books, 23 Mar. 2021
  • As itinerant artists, the painters worked quickly in order to make a living.
    — Lyndi McNulty, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 15 Aug. 2021
  • That is, except for the itinerant pocket of purple and gold.
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2021
  • For the past six days, Raulino has made camp at South Station, a magnet for the homeless and itinerant.
    — Deanna Pan, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2019
  • He was born to itinerant farm workers in Sacramento in the 1930s.
    — Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 1 May 2018
  • Clements, who was born in Seattle, grew up the child of itinerant parents who worked blue-collar jobs.
    — Annie Gowen, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2022
  • Many of them are itinerant, moving their colonies around the country on lorries in search of pollen and nectar.
    — The Economist, 8 Apr. 2020
  • The itinerant homeless man was believed to have disappeared at the same time as the little girl.
    — Fox News, 19 Feb. 2020
  • The book’s hero spends decades wrestling with the teachings of his father, who, like Upp, became an itinerant preacher.
    — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2018
  • There’s an itinerant quality to Lucy Sante’s life and work.
    — Josh Zajdman, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2024
  • This bag is either an itinerant chef’s dream, or simply the well thought out kit of a serial-killer.
    — Charlie Sorrel, WIRED, 16 Sep. 2009
  • The radio host Bruce Duffie asked Mr. Preston, in a 1990 interview, if the itinerant life of an organ soloist was fun.
    — New York Times, 23 May 2022
  • Many of them are itinerant, moving from cloud seeding in one town in the summer to another in the winter.
    — Doug Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Aug. 2021
  • An itinerant man who went on a crime spree across Colorado and Utah in 2017 pleaded guilty Friday to killing a Golden man.
    — Meg Wingerter, The Denver Post, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Simmons, born in 1880 on a farm in Harpersville, Ala., was an itinerant Methodist minister.
    — The Washington Post, AL.com, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Now 36, the itinerant striker has played for 17 club sides on three continents.
    — Asif Burhan, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
  • More crops have cut the number of young men seeking itinerant employment in the cities during the dry season.
    — The Economist, 12 July 2018
  • In that moment, both Jesus and the role of an itinerant evangelist — changing the world one life at a time — captured his heart.
    — Cathy Lynn Grossman, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Because her parents were Jewish, she was forced to lead an itinerant childhood, moving between the Netherlands and Switzerland while the threat of the Nazis loomed large.
    — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 1 July 2024
  • So, Baird became an itinerant voice in an era of civil rights protests and a burgeoning women’s movement.
    — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2024

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