How to Use meander in a Sentence

meander

1 of 2 noun

• The trail to the top of this landmark starts as a gentle meander through open desert for 1.3 miles.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 18 Jan. 2022
• Among the things to be designed would be the 5-foot-wide sidewalks’ meander.
  — cleveland, 20 July 2023
• Some rivers, like the Ucayali, meander across the landscape in wide loops.
  — Barbara Fraser, Discover Magazine, 23 Sep. 2018
• Files' story and the items in the self-care kits will help students as the meander through life, Hoyt believes.
  — al, 14 Aug. 2019
• The lights are dim, a few couples meander past, and a group of kids on a field trip is being shepherded around.
  — Samantha Laine Perfas, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 July 2023
• A trail map at the bottom of each video outlines which stories are next on your visual meander through the city.
  — Philly.com, 25 June 2017
• In the upper delta near the Arizona border, west of the channel where the pulse flow roiled through in 2014, an old meander of the river forms a sweeping scar in the desert.
  — Ian James, AZCentral.com, 19 Apr. 2020
• Streets and sidewalks meander past lots that were once meant for houses but now have only bits of trash and waist-high weeds.
  — Mira Rojanasakul, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• Rehoboth Beach is famous for its boardwalk, which is the perfect place to soak in the views or meander through shops and restaurants.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 10 Nov. 2023
• Thick channels of paint drag your eye not into the picture, but on a slow meander across its surface.
  — Charles Desmarais, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Jan. 2018
• Follow the trail past the saddle, and you're rewarded with an up-and-down ridge walk fit for a mountain run or slow meander — all the better to drink in the views.
  — Tegan Hanlon, Anchorage Daily News, 15 June 2018
• The canals, a vast network once used to move goods across the country, cut their way through Britain’s countryside and meander through town and city centers.
  — New York Times, 20 July 2021
• Near Pisa the river Arno ends its long meander through Tuscany and runs into the Tyrrhenian sea.
  — Luke Leitch, Vogue, 14 June 2018
• To ask them to hold on through any length of a meander — to endure — sounds counterintuitive.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 5 Nov. 2020
• The weekend is nothing but a shower-fest as the remains of Hurricane Ian meander over the region.
  — David Streit, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2022
• There are great things here and too many funny guest appearances to count and at least as many sketches that meander or lack edge or have been spread thin.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2023
• Walls flow and meander, rather than clicking around corners.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 22 Feb. 2023
• If a village is built on the meander, the cutoff isolates it from the main river channel, which is the only transportation route in this roadless part of the world.
  — Barbara Fraser, Discover Magazine, 23 Sep. 2018
• This is where our science hero spent around a third of her time, swimming around a standing meander, which is a permanent bend in a current.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 6 Dec. 2019
• Hike along the Cheaha and Pinhoti trails that meander through woodlands and by waterfalls.
  — Atlanta Travel, ajc, 17 Apr. 2017
• Around those wrought-iron tables a glass runway meanders at right angles, like the trademark Versace Greek key.
  — Alexander Fury, New York Times, 21 June 2017
• Like a slow-moving river, a slower jet stream forms deep meanders, which can stall during the summer, sometimes for weeks.
  — Stephen Leahy, National Geographic, 28 June 2019
• The first few episodes meander along without much sense of urgency (most of the episodes run more than an hour), sprinkling just enough clues to indicate that something wicked this way comes.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 24 Sep. 2021
• Leave your bike outside and meander through the sloping hills covered in stubby graves, statues of veiled angels, and grand mausoleums.
  — Francesca Carington, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Jan. 2024
• If these meanders, or ripples, are extreme, cold Arctic air can spill southward or hotter air from the middle of the planet can move north.
  — Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 1 July 2019
• Follow that with segment ten, a 4.3-mile meander through a forest that connects to the Syndicate Nature Trail.
  — The Editors, Outside Online, 5 Feb. 2020
• Strips of perennial hay grass (for his cattle) and native prairie species like milkweed meander across the slopes—​year-round flora that pump carbon into the soil.
  — Brian Barth, Popular Science, 1 Apr. 2020
• Models let researchers predict when a meander might cut off, giving villagers time to plan.
  — Barbara Fraser, Discover Magazine, 23 Sep. 2018
• Thin plastic bags that once contained drinking water meander back and forth in the Senegalese surf, like jellyfish.
  — New York Times, 31 Jan. 2022
• Instead of workers dredging rivers, which can result in faster rivers, courses were rebuilt to meander.
  — Millie Brigaud, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 July 2023

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meander

2 of 2 verb

• The path meanders through the garden.
• We meandered around the village.
• The conversation meandered on for hours.
• The plan today is to meander in a loop along the Thames.
  — Zing Tsjeng, Vogue, 20 Mar. 2024
• Tall and languorous, he was known to meander with a cane down the streets of Fort Worth’s skid row.
  — Dallas News, 18 Jan. 2022
• The tie is meant to go north and south, in a straight line, not meander upward and outward.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 4 Dec. 2023
• The storm is expected to meander in the Atlantic over the next few days.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2022
• Some 60-feet away from the cup at the back of the green, Woods sent a winding effort meandering across the grass.
  — Jack Bantock, CNN, 13 Mar. 2024
• Guests will be able to arrive any time and meander into the maze.
  — Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant, 10 Aug. 2022
• The path meanders through the canyon, opening to river and mountain views year-round.
  — Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 26 Sep. 2023
• Then there are the ones who meander the halls of the basement, lying on large pipes and trotting freely about the nooks and crannies of the palace.
  — Cai Pigliucci, CNN, 7 Dec. 2021
• The 60-mile route starts near Oakridge, meanders through the national forest, and ends at Rainbow, a dot on the map.
  — Thallman, oregonlive, 18 Mar. 2023
• Tack on the mile-long spur Fern Trail to meander past a series of waterfalls.
  — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 14 Nov. 2022
• Like the podcast, the new record runs short but manages to meander on its way to a neat conclusion.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 4 May 2022
• The cluster of storms will meander to the southwest over the next few days, staying over the warm water in the Gulf of Mexico.
  — Jennifer Gray, CNN, 27 June 2022
• The current forecast is for this system to meander through midweek and keep us a bit cloudy and damp.
  — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 28 May 2023
• Use curves, jogs, or steps only where there is a reason, not just to meander.
  — Viveka Neveln, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Feb. 2023
• The two meandered through the aisles and grabbed more goodies from Ree’s set, including a set of knives and a blue baking sheet to match Bryce’s bowls.
  — Sam Burros, Peoplemag, 23 June 2023
• The hurricane center said the storm is expected to meander over the Atlantic for the next few days.
  — CBS News, 2 Sep. 2022
• See snapshots of French cities of Dijon, Lyon, and Avignon as the train meanders past.
  — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Dec. 2023
• This is causing the jet stream to meander more, which can trigger more extreme bouts of weather—from cold fronts to drought.
  — Kyla Mandel, Time, 23 Dec. 2022
• This can happen when the jet stream, a band of winds that blow from west to east around the planet, starts to meander into a wavelike pattern.
  — Elena Shao, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2023
• Her body would lie there for more than 24 hours, until the state pathologist could meander down from Dublin.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2022
• Children and adults can meander through the garden and experience the wonder and joy of the season.
  — Judy Koutsky, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021
• Today, the glacier terminates on land and an alder- and willow-flanked creek meanders down to the waters of Muir Inlet.
  — Lesley Evans Ogden, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2023
• Hurricanes don’t meander, of course, and the hard landing is what is missing here.
  — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2022
• But then certain sections are just that could meander and go on — the jam sections with guitars.
  — Glenn Peoples, Billboard, 6 Feb. 2023
• Then meander the paths to see this year’s crop of scarecrows designed by area groups and businesses.
  — Dana Oland, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
• Many of the fossils found in this part of the world are preserved in the serpentine rivers that meandered through the forests in a landscape dotted with volcanic highlands.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 21 Nov. 2023
• White Stallion has a breakfast ride where guests meander through the desert for about a half-hour on the way to an outpost set up for shady chuck-wagon breakfasts.
  — Eric Jay Toll, Chicago Tribune, 13 July 2022

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