How to Use nomadic in a Sentence

nomadic

adjective
  • Most of us are not nomadic by nature.
    Bill Gurley, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2026
  • This was one of the last nomadic tribes running around the country.
    Washington Post, 21 May 2017
  • But at the same time, that idea of being nomadic even within the city.
    Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2021
  • The show opens upon a peaceful, nomadic tribe that dwells in the hills.
    Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 June 2016
  • Which, in her already nomadic life, means going to even more places.
    Bob Guccione Jr., SPIN, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Fowler was married twice and has four children, but his work life was nomadic.
    Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 29 May 2019
  • The horse world may be nomadic, but the party runs all year long in Ocala.
    Adam H. Graham, Robb Report, 6 June 2023
  • In turn, earth’s rootedness can make a nomadic fire sign feel trapped.
    The Astrotwins, ELLE, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Grantham is about due a change of scenery, given the 55-year-old’s nomadic track record.
    Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 26 Oct. 2021
  • This shift reflects the rise of remote work and nomadic living.
    Jeff Fromm, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2025
  • Mongolia’s vast steppes and nomadic heritage have long shaped the rhythms of life.
    Munkhtuya Rentsenbat, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • To heat their homes, nomadic families would burn coal, which of course pollutes the air.
    Magazine, 8 Dec. 2020
  • For thousands of years, the Seri were nomadic, roaming in small groups along the coast.
    The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
  • That feels like quite like a nomadic approach to existing within the world.
    Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Nov. 2022
  • In contrast, the nomadic horsemen and women lived a rugged life in a harsh landscape.
    National Geographic, 18 June 2020
  • Every member of the Elliott nomadic clan does — even the ones who don't like to ski.
    Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2019
  • Amid rising tension and paranoia, nomadic herders are no longer able to move with freedoms of the past.
    Richard Kuipers, Variety, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Lamb is roasted long and slow as the nomadic Naqab Bedouin have cooked it for centuries.
    The Economist, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Dean says he was inspired by Free Solo to take on a nomadic lifestyle.
    Katherine J Igoe, Marie Claire, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Jenn Rice is a nomadic journalist who covers food and drink in the travel space.
    Jenn Rice, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
  • The people who left the shell would have been nomadic, traveling the region in search of food and water sources.
    Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Mar. 2021
  • The Fulani people of West Africa are the world’s largest nomadic group.
    Melissa Noel, Essence, 18 July 2023
  • The study team had first thought nomadic hunters moved between distant kites with the migrations of herds of gazelles and antelopes.
    Tom Metcalfe, Scientific American, 17 May 2023
  • Her aim is to reinvent facial skin care for today’s nomadic lifestyles of real women.
    Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Gratitude for having a place to close your eyes doesn’t erase the loneliness of nomadic living.
    Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The people settling here were in for some major changes from formerly nomadic lifestyles.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 7 Aug. 2025
  • In fact, nomadic herders have lived off the vast expanses of grass in the Rift Valley for centuries.
    Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 24 July 2017
  • And so then also, guests are able to walk with nomadic herders, like across the land with camels or with or with cows and to like, learn about this ancient practice.
    AFAR Media, 15 May 2026
  • Times are hard for the Hadza, who include some of the last people on the planet to live as nomadic hunter-gatherers.
    Ann Gibbons, Science | AAAS, 17 May 2018
  • The girl was from a nomadic Muslim tribe, and the charge sheet filed in court said that one of the accused wanted to drive the tribe from the area.
    Krishna Pokharel, WSJ, 15 Apr. 2018

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