Thesaurus results for ROAMED

roamed

verb

past tense of roam

as in wandered

to move about from place to place aimlessly he took a year off and roamed over Europe before going on to college

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Recent Examples of roamed With far less hair, Ella’s green eyes seemed greener, like those of the feral black cats that roamed their hamlet, meowing for table scraps, which were often given without hesitation. —

Literary Hub, 18 June 2026 Mesalands Dinosaur Museum in Tucumcari, New Mexico Part of Mesalands Community College in Tucumcari, New Mexico, the Dinosaur Museum and Natural Science Laboratory offers a look at the mighty creatures that once roamed the area during the Mesozoic era. —

Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 18 June 2026 Locking themselves into school, these restless teenagers roamed the premises unsupervised. —

Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 14 June 2026 Photographers roamed the campus with equipment in tow as cherry pickers and barricades appeared along the complex. —

Janay Kingsberry, The Atlantic, 12 June 2026 Other lines of circumstantial evidence also suggest shockingly large objects roamed the early epochs of our solar system. —

Jenna Ahart, Scientific American, 9 June 2026 Meanwhile, Kim Kardashian and her sister Khloe roamed the circuit in high heels and under heavy security. —

Séraphine Roger, Vanity Fair, 7 June 2026 Scientists recently uncovered fossilized jawbones of Nanaimoteuthis haggarti – a massive, kraken-like octopus that roamed Earth about 72 million years ago. —

Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 4 June 2026 With runners on first and third, Martinez roamed into the gap, bobbled a fly ball, caught it around her shoes, tossed the ball to Shelby, who doubled the runner off third to end the game. —

Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2026

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Periodically, Bhasin interrupted the sounds of birds, rain, and jungle life to offer encouraging words to his audience—a small group, nestled on mismatched sofas and chairs, and a couple who’d wandered in for some soup.

— Patricia Marx, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
And during those six months in the wilderness, my mind frequently wandered back to idyllic childhood days in her backyard — the smell of fresh mown grass and the music of wind chimes kissing my ears.

— Brad Ryan, PEOPLE, 13 June 2026