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
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
At the worst," he spoke wanderingly, "I thought you'd perhaps let me go in on the business end of it and invest along with you.
From The Song of the Lark by Willa Sibert Cather
I seem to remember talking, wanderingly, to myself during that last spurt.
From The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
