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wanderings
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Ruess financed his wanderings through Asia by selling his paintings.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Finally Rachel responded and Phoebe had forgotten in her wanderings just how bloody clever Rachel was.
▪ For Inman, the torturous wanderings test his will to survive.
▪ His wanderings in the nearby Derbyshire dales laid the foundations for his lifelong love of landscape.
▪ Poor Psyche in her despairing wanderings was trying to win the gods over to her side.
▪ So matters stood when the tenth year of Odysseus' wanderings neared its close.
▪ These qualities serve Boy well in the course of his canine wanderings.
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wanderings

n. (plural of wandering English)

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Wanderings

Wanderings may refer to:

  • Synchronistic Wanderings, compilation album by American rock singer Pat Benatar
  • The Wanderings of Oisin, epic poem published by William Butler Yeats in 1889
  • The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems, the first collection of poems by William Butler Yeats
  • Wanderings of Sanmao, Chinese animation TV series in China based on the famous manhua character Sanmao
  • Wanderings: Chaim Potok's History of the Jews, first published in 1978 by Knopf

Usage examples of "wanderings".

His first thoughts were for the welfare of Astoria, and, concluding that the inhabitants would probably be in want of provisions, he chartered the Albatross for two thousand dollars, to land him, with some supplies, at the mouth of the Columbia, where he arrived, as we have seen, on the 20th of August, after a year's seafaring that might have furnished a chapter in the wanderings of Sinbad.

When the first greetings were over, the different bands interchanged accounts of their several wanderings, after separating at Snake River.

Crooks now informed his companions that in his desolate wanderings through the Snake River country during the preceding winter, in which he had been accompanied by John Day, the poor fellow's wits had been partially unsettled by the sufferings and horrors through which they had passed, and he doubted whether they had ever been restored to perfect sanity.

Miller, in the course of his wanderings, had been at these falls, and had seen several thousand salmon taken in the course of one afternoon.

For a part of the next day, the wild river, in its capricious wanderings, led them through a variety of striking scenes.

In the course of my wanderings by night and day, at all hours and seasons, in city streets and quiet country parts, I came to be familiar with certain faces, and to take it to heart as quite a heavy disappointment if they failed to present themselves each at its accustomed spot.