wander
verb (used without object)
to ramble without a definite purpose or objective; roam, rove, or stray.
Example Sentences
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“Good Writing: 36 Ways to Improve Your Sentences” is as sharply specific as “Bird by Bird” is wanderingly wonderful: as winning a companion piece as two winning companions could create.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2026
Like specters men staggered slowly and wanderingly through the gray streets.
From The U. P. Trail by Zane Grey
I seem to remember talking, wanderingly, to myself during that last spurt.
From The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
It seemed to me a voice of love, That always had loved me, So softly it rang out above— So wild and wanderingly.
From Ohio Arbor Day 1913: Arbor and Bird Day Manual Issued for the Benefit of the Schools of our State by Grace R. Clifton
Pinuccio, taking his cue from what he had heard, began as a dreamer would be like to do, to talk wanderingly; whereat the host laughed amain.
From The Decameron, Volume II by J. M. (James Macmullen) Rigg
