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 their home campus inaccessible, students roamed to various athletic facilities throughout town for practice and games.
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Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2026
On a recent afternoon, the pair of mutes roamed the tiered backyard.
—Ryan Gillespie, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2026
Chickens roamed the property, unbothered by their enclosures.
—Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 23 Jan. 2026
Mobs of students and true believers called the Red Guard roamed across the country carrying out the wishes of their leader Mao Zedong.
—Arkansas Online, 22 Jan. 2026
The spa Treatments and activities at the spa are inspired by the Celts, who once roamed these forests.
—Grainne McBride, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
Conifers have grown on Earth for at least 150 million years, when dinosaurs roamed the land.
—Sheryl Devore, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2026
Small dogs have roamed for days inside that network of pipes in Leawood.
—Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 17 Jan. 2026
Aside from Walia, Pichai, and Xu, other notable alumni including Citigroup leader Jane Fraser and Visa chief executive Ryan McInerney have roamed the office floors of the consulting giant.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2026
Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2026
On a recent afternoon, the pair of mutes roamed the tiered backyard.
—Ryan Gillespie, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2026
Chickens roamed the property, unbothered by their enclosures.
—Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 23 Jan. 2026
Mobs of students and true believers called the Red Guard roamed across the country carrying out the wishes of their leader Mao Zedong.
—Arkansas Online, 22 Jan. 2026
The spa Treatments and activities at the spa are inspired by the Celts, who once roamed these forests.
—Grainne McBride, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
Conifers have grown on Earth for at least 150 million years, when dinosaurs roamed the land.
—Sheryl Devore, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2026
Small dogs have roamed for days inside that network of pipes in Leawood.
—Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 17 Jan. 2026
Aside from Walia, Pichai, and Xu, other notable alumni including Citigroup leader Jane Fraser and Visa chief executive Ryan McInerney have roamed the office floors of the consulting giant.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for roamed
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Jacob Roggeveen, a lawyer turned explorer, had wandered about the Pacific with three ships and found nothing.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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Those who perished include 90-year-old Doreen Ellis, a Crown Heights resident with dementia who wandered out of her apartment into the frigid air Sunday night.—
Josephine Stratman,
New York Daily News,
27 Jan. 2026
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The couple strolled past planter boxes filled with flowers and vegetables as the school’s attendance specialist Crismar Guerra De Segnini answered questions from them and the handful of other parents on the tour.—
Keri Heath,
Austin American Statesman,
27 Jan. 2026
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After the models’ finale, Nichanian strolled down the runway as an audience of hundreds of clients, celebrities and editors offered her a five-minute standing ovation.—
Rachel Tashjian,
CNN Money,
26 Jan. 2026
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The Haycrafts had drifted apart around this time, after one of their sons died in an accident, and Anna became vehemently religious.—
Christopher Tayler,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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But, after, many of the groups created to put it on fell into factional infighting or drifted apart.—
Charles Duhigg,
New Yorker,
26 Jan. 2026
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“Roamed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/roamed. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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