How to Use nomad in a Sentence

nomad

noun
  • He lived like a nomad for a few years after college, never holding a job in one place for very long.
  • There’s now a place on the high seas for the new nomad.
    Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 June 2019
  • For the nomad in your life, who loves to hike and camp.
    Angela Belt, House Beautiful, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Berlin is the best city in the world to be a digital nomad.
    Sara Tardiff, ELLE Decor, 22 Nov. 2017
  • And keep in mind that the stakes are much lower as a digital nomad.
    cleveland, 21 Feb. 2021
  • Their real roots are on the battlefield, on the steppes, with the nomads.
    Jacob Mikanowski, Harper's magazine, 21 July 2019
  • The nomads, thankfully, nod and point toward a swell of hills.
    Jason Harper, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 July 2018
  • But the house is quiet again, and Sperling is no longer a nomad in her own home.
    Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Most of the population were nomads before their way of life was changed by colonists.
    Vincent Kituku, idahostatesman, 2 June 2017
  • Quartzsite is a central location, a home base for a group of nomads who wander from one job to the next.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The nomads will pack up camp and return to their real home – the road – moving like blood cells through the veins of the country.
    Janet Saidi, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2017
  • The career nomad was returning home with one of his best friends, ready to make an impact.
    Akeem Glaspie, Indianapolis Star, 3 May 2020
  • In the coming weeks, the modern-day nomads and others like them will have to find a new stealth campsite.
    Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Luplow has been a bit of a baseball nomad as a major leaguer.
    José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 6 May 2022
  • Anoma has been a nomad the past four years, spending time at three different schools.
    Marlowe Alter, Detroit Free Press, 18 Aug. 2022
  • El Centro has owned its building for three years but was a nomad before that.
    Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2021
  • A notable percentage of nomads seemed to have at least flirted with different parts of the manosphere.
    Benjamin Wallace, Daily Intelligencer, 12 July 2017
  • This is our guide to living like a digital nomad in perhaps the best place on earth, both on and offline.
    Sara Tardiff, ELLE Decor, 22 Nov. 2017
  • Attendees can bring their laptops and get to work, living a week in the life of a digital nomad.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Aug. 2019
  • The 20-year-old had dropped out of college and bought a van to live as a nomad.
    Guillermo Contreras, ExpressNews.com, 14 June 2019
  • But, as offices demand their workers back, will this be the end of the digital nomad?
    Ollie A Williams, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2021
  • Maybe next time, Zhao can raise the stakes on the heroic vibes by mixing in a drop of nomad reality.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 24 Oct. 2021
  • Not even the Bedouin nomads with their camels are visible, because there are too few of them amid the vast landscape.
    Vivienne Walt, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2017
  • There are dozens of options for digital nomad visas, but here are a few of the most popular programs.
    Mike Swigunski, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2021
  • Is Fern a vagabond, a nomad, a pioneer, or just a hermit?
    Armond White, National Review, 15 Jan. 2021
  • Swankie plays a version of herself, a nomad who befriends Fern and spends some time with her.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 16 Mar. 2021
  • In the future, researchers hope the genomes will help reveal how the mysterious nomad empire worked.
    Andrew Curry, Science | AAAS, 5 Nov. 2020
  • One of the best parts of being a digital nomad is being able to work from anywhere, and that often means without a dress code.
    Ramsey Qubein, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2023
  • Becoming a nomad is about, for many of us, going through the darkness of the tunnel, looking for the light at the other end.
    Vulture Editors, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2021
  • Removing an alpha male may disrupt pack dynamics for a short while but a nomad will soon be along to take its place.
    Popular Science, 12 Mar. 2021

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