How to Use wander in a Sentence

wander

verb

• They wandered down the street.
• He wandered away from the trail and got lost.
• I was just wandering around the house.
• Students were wandering the halls.
• The two-year-old son of one of his dead soldiers wanders about.
  — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2023
• While the park sat as a ghost town, the equipment that wasn’t auctioned off wandered off.
  — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2023
• Clara and her Nutcracker Prince wander into the Land of the Sweets.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Dec. 2022
• Not the live penguin who gets shipped to the hotel and keeps wandering around.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 2 Sep. 2023
• What to do: After your kayak journey, wander through the ruins of the key.
  — Emma Janssen, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2024
• We were born to daydream, to drift, to create, to wonder and to wander.
  — L'oreal Thompson Payton, Fortune Well, 20 Feb. 2023
• As Venus and Uranus square off, your eyes are wandering.
  — USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2023
• Wilson wandered off alone and spent a while looking out to sea.
  — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• Barbara Doyle, 74, wandered away and was found dead in a wooded area.
  — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2023
• Like every true prophet, Coltrane had wandered but was not lost.
  — Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
• Or just wander into your local shop and ask a clerk what’s good.
  — The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2024
• Next, head out to wander through the nearby Elkin Antiques and Collectibles Mall.
  — Melissa Oyler, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• Left to his own devices, Ken wanders into a high school library and leaves with a stack of books in hand.
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2023
• Visitors can wander about the set, but there are sit-down portions of the action too.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2023
• Her phone is shut off, drinks are flowing, and hands are wandering.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 8 Dec. 2023
• Many days Sincere would wander beyond the boundary of 71st Street, to a two-flat where a woman in her 80s lived.
  — Reginald Dwayne Betts, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2022
• Once, Christy bolted from the mall on a shopping trip and wandered five miles in the cold and rain to a Wendy’s, where the police were called and bought her dinner.
  — Robert Kolker, New York Times, 20 July 2023
• While in Rome, Akiho didn’t spend all his time wandering around the city.
  — James Bash | , oregonlive, 25 Apr. 2023
• Steve has wandered down to the Grey Muzzle Kennel on a few Fridays, taking home a dog for a few days.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 11 May 2023
• Your eyes can wander to Adrianna and Sarah, to the vibrant visuals around them and to all those words on the walls.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 25 Jan. 2023
• Then the watching began, the full-day shift, to make sure Rosetta doesn’t wander off into the winter.
  — Alexandra Moe, The New Republic, 2 Mar. 2023
• The camp and the teen's body were first discovered by a hiker wandering off trail in July.
  — CBS News, 1 Sep. 2023
• That’s when Tucker wandered down to the creek, leading his owners to follow.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 17 July 2023
• Resist the urge to wander through the rows for that perfect shot, so your shoes don’t introduce harmful pests.
  — Erika Ebsworth-Goold, Travel + Leisure, 2 Apr. 2024
• On Thursday, the 4-year-old bear escaped his habitat around 1 p.m. to wander the zoo for about 50 minutes.
  — Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 25 Feb. 2023
• But a rarely bought, had to classify item can lead to wandering aisles in the vain hope that the item will be easily spotted.
  — Roger Dooley, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024