How to Use wander in a Sentence

wander

verb
Definition of wandernext
Synonyms for wandernext
  • They wandered down the street.
  • He wandered away from the trail and got lost.
  • I was just wandering around the house.
  • Students were wandering the halls.
  • On cool days, the cows wander down to the grassy flatlands.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 June 2022
  • The two-year-old son of one of his dead soldiers wanders about.
    — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2023
  • Some of the children wander around barefoot in the snow.
    — Saeed Shah, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Mostly her job in this movie is to wander around in the desert as part of those dreams.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 19 Oct. 2021
  • Secure your yard, so the dog can’t wander away and get lost.
    — Jan Hoffman, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2022
  • Two of her six dogs, half of them adopted from the wild, wander in and out of the camera frame.
    — Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 4 Dec. 2021
  • At times, children wander the school or aides sleep in chairs.
    — Mike Reicher, ProPublica, 26 Nov. 2022
  • While the park sat as a ghost town, the equipment that wasn’t auctioned off wandered off.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The little ones can wander the paths in costume and learn about some cool creepy crawlies in the world around us.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Clara and her Nutcracker Prince wander into the Land of the Sweets.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Dec. 2022
  • While your kid sleeps or your boss talks, let your mind wander.
    — Meghana Indurti, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Not the live penguin who gets shipped to the hotel and keeps wandering around.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 2 Sep. 2023
  • What to do: After your kayak journey, wander through the ruins of the key.
    — Emma Janssen, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Video footage showed the man wandered off, a Krekorian aide told The Times.
    — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2024
  • To riff on the sage J.R.R. Tolkien, all those who wander should spend some time getting lost here.
    — Perri Ormont Blumberg, Travel + Leisure, 11 Nov. 2021
  • We were born to daydream, to drift, to create, to wonder and to wander.
    — L'oreal Thompson Payton, Fortune Well, 20 Feb. 2023
  • There are no towns; travelers wander the road and die mad and alone.
    — Will Bedingfield, Wired, 24 Feb. 2022
  • As the boys wander through the shop, Grimes points to a skinny kid in sunglasses.
    — Matt Tunseth For The Daily News, Anchorage Daily News, 31 May 2022
  • The moral of the story is never wander into a swamp again.
    — Laura Bradley, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2024
  • As Venus and Uranus square off, your eyes are wandering.
    — USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Let your mind wander: daydream and see where your thoughts take you.
    — Quora, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
  • When a chill starts to fill the air, minds start to wander to someplace warmer and tropical.
    — Ramsey Qubein, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
  • To save space, give them a trellis of some kind to climb, otherwise the vines wander all over the place.
    — Dean Kuipers, Outside Online, 8 May 2022
  • Maybe my wife has a point about letting my mind wander.
    — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 July 2022
  • Walt then heads — where else? — into the meth lab, wandering around and looking at the equipment with distinct fondness.
    — Will Harris, EW.com, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Vague, wandering, wordy speech habits, for example, force people to work harder to understand you.
    — John Bowe, Contributor, CNBC, 7 Feb. 2025

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