wander - use in sentences

Object

  • minstrel: There were traveling merchants together with fortune tellers, ballad singers and wandering minstrels.
  • albatross: The largest species, the wandering albatross, has a wingspan of 11 feet and can live for 50 years or more.
  • street: With only a few media lot wandering the streets.
  • round: She wanders round ok, not hiding or shy or anything... .
  • corridor: Her ghost has been seen wandering corridors searching for him.
  • downstairs: A GM tournament would probably be played in a hotel, and the players would just wander downstairs and play.

Preposition: at

  • will: Here we are free to shop, to visit the museum or just wander at will.

Preposition: through

  • maze: You're wandering through a cavernous, low-ceilinged maze, discovering new areas and bars at every turn.
  • wilderness: It was a tent, really, for pilgrims who wandered through the wilderness going from Egypt to the promised Canaan land.

Modifying Another Word

  • aimlessly: People wander aimlessly about these ruins - you'll never be alone here.

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • around: He wandered around with a very sad frown on his face.
  • off: We would often wander off whilst the women of the house cooked Sunday Dinner.
  • across: We wandered across to the main stage and caught the end of Marilyn Manson.
  • over: Two minutes from the end the drummer wanders over to the bar.
  • through: The oak wood is delightful to wander through on the way to the summit.
  • along: Charlie landed on the branch of a Beech tree, next to the path the puppy was wandering along.

Followed by a transitive particle

  • around: Never wander around the back streets of the island's cities at night.

Used with why or when

  • wherever: Great wildlife begins right outside the door and you can wander wherever you like.

Preposition: in

  • wilderness: There were forty years of wandering in the wilderness following the exodus, for example.
  • desert: While wandering in the desert, God helped them find water and sent them manna from heaven - a kind of flat bread.

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