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 possums come out in the evenings, and wander through the house.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 23 Dec. 2020
  • Stuck at home, the mind tends to wander since the body can't.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 24 Apr. 2021
  • On cool days, the cows wander down to the grassy flatlands.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 June 2022
  • The two-year-old son of one of his dead soldiers wanders about.
    — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2023
  • Some of the children wander around barefoot in the snow.
    — Saeed Shah, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Mostly her job in this movie is to wander around in the desert as part of those dreams.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 19 Oct. 2021
  • Read a book, breathe deeply or just let your mind wander.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 5 July 2025
  • Secure your yard, so the dog can’t wander away and get lost.
    — Jan Hoffman, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2022
  • His body was warm against mine, and his touch didn’t wander from my arm.
    — New York Times, 31 Mar. 2021
  • Two of her six dogs, half of them adopted from the wild, wander in and out of the camera frame.
    — Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 4 Dec. 2021
  • At times, children wander the school or aides sleep in chairs.
    — Mike Reicher, ProPublica, 26 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • In this meeting on a warm June morning, Leo, 5, wanders off to play the drums in the next room.
    — Lynda Lin Grigsby, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2025
  • The little ones can wander the paths in costume and learn about some cool creepy crawlies in the world around us.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Clara and her Nutcracker Prince wander into the Land of the Sweets.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Dec. 2022
  • While your kid sleeps or your boss talks, let your mind wander.
    — Meghana Indurti, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • Video footage showed the man wandered off, a Krekorian aide told The Times.
    — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2024
  • Consider this a nudge to go out and wander for a while.
    — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Apr. 2021
  • To riff on the sage J.R.R. Tolkien, all those who wander should spend some time getting lost here.
    — Perri Ormont Blumberg, Travel + Leisure, 11 Nov. 2021
  • We were born to daydream, to drift, to create, to wonder and to wander.
    — L'oreal Thompson Payton, Fortune Well, 20 Feb. 2023
  • There are no towns; travelers wander the road and die mad and alone.
    — Will Bedingfield, Wired, 24 Feb. 2022
  • As the boys wander through the shop, Grimes points to a skinny kid in sunglasses.
    — Matt Tunseth For The Daily News, Anchorage Daily News, 31 May 2022
  • It’s best explored by taking the cable car up the steep cliffs and wandering down the winding, sloping streets.
    — Mark Lakin, Travel + Leisure, 9 July 2025
  • The clinic recommends taking actions including wearing bug spray with DEET, wearing gloves when dealing with animals that could be infected, and not allowing pets to wander around outside if located in an area that is known to have plague.
    — Chantelle Lee, Time, 11 July 2025

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