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    1. And night wanderers who exercise tend to wander less


    2. ’ He said as we show our membership cards to the National Trust personnel on duty and wander off into the great hall of the house


    3. There are loads of bridleways and footpaths around here and, when I have the chance, I tend to grab my OS map and wander off to explore


    4. It seems silly to fuss so I leave him in peace and wander into the kitchen


    5. " His eyes began to wander to the stars out the top of the dome


    6. "And…" Parker said, pretending to casually wander between him and Timms, "That means exactly what, Lt


    7. Parking the two excited young people and their baggage in a café nearby with strict instructions not to wander off, she went to introduce herself to the warden, a woman by the name of Zareide


    8. drifting with the mists that wander lazily


    9. used to wander off at times n the hilarious


    10. where all the other scurf clad lovelies wander

    11. She shouldn't let her thoughts wander out here, this wasn't the time and place to ponder everything, this was the time and place to be super alert and focused


    12. Quickly dressing, and with no accurate idea of what the time may be, I wander up onto the deck


    13. But, I couldn't sleep and couldn't resist my new found confidence so I decided to go out and wander a little just before the dawn


    14. In my wanderings I actually find a discarded fold-up bed and try to sleep on it under a ramshackle stone building on the edge of a public park but after only half an hour my own snoring wakes me and so with dry throat I wander back to the Flea Market area and even at this hour am greeted with early morning hellos from the traders and completely seduced by the mouth-watering aromas of hot sesame cakes and sugar-dusted doughnuts, of pastries and fresh coffee


    15. A gravelled turning area at the beginning of the village served as a vehicle terminus where the tourist shuttles off-loaded their exhilarated cargoes to wander for a few hours


    16. It was an unwritten law of street life that condemned the miserable to wander aimlessly around Soho’s darker haunts for hours before inevitably ending up back where they had started out from


    17. The Taverna Virgenia was used by the noisier visitors while Taverna Antonis was respected as the locals' meeting place and throughout my stay I'd wander between the two depending on my mood


    18. As soon as he spied his next great love and started to work out how he would introduce himself to her his attention would wander and be caught by another girl’s smiling eyes


    19. Contemplating on all the lies the Elders had told her and her people she let her mind wander as to what if


    20. wander around the earth with all of the jiberish leading you to destruction

    21. “Many of us who lived in the later days of the Minoan civilization, especially those of us who watched the mainlanders smash and grab everything they could, chose to wander back in time to greater days, just like your captain’s mother has done in America, settling in the 1932 echo


    22. She let her attention wander, and an armor-clad man stabbed Damash in his shoulder


    23. She let her mind wander as her hands toiled in the hot water, scrubbing the pans and revelling in the satisfaction of making clean order out of dirty chaos


    24. ‘Where could he wander to? There’s nothing out here


    25. ‘You could wander around there for days without hitting civilisation


    26. “That was my part in it,” he said, “that and getting burned by the guy who let the transferee wander lost in the halls


    27. Of course he shouldn’t just wander all over place the way he did like his time was free, but then he had told her many times that as soon as he had to stop playing in the labs himself, he was done


    28. Out of the corner of my eye, I see Alastair asking the resident organist to wander round the church to see how the balance between pipes and voice is


    29. So now Jorma had two more hours to wander aimlessly as he had been doing for days


    30. He continued to wander aimlessly until he came to a public house that had a stairway to the rooms just inside the door and out of sight

    31. As I wander into the bathroom to collect my toothbrush, a voice from the shower stops me in my tracks,


    32. I guess I could wander down toward Dos, they have a major university there also


    33. They returned to the valley where the girls wanted to wander around the little white house, but her interest was still the big house so she simply dropped them off and continued on


    34. She had to admit that this development made her concentration wander somewhat


    35. He was learning pretty fast, going past five pictures while her mind took that wander


    36. She got up to poke up the fire and wander over to the bins


    37. After a new recording they would play a few big parties in the city and then wander out into the country for a few more years


    38. wander over the painted beams (they were each more


    39. blind to wander off the road


    40. let his attention wander

    41. away, and robbers wander the roads at will of a night


    42. interest - began to let his attention wander


    43. Numerous herds of cattle, when allowed to wander through the woods, though they do not destroy the old trees, hinder any young ones from coming up ; so that, in the course of a century or two, the whole forest goes to ruin


    44. Their cattle are allowed to wander through the woods and other uncultivated grounds, where they are half-starved; having long ago extirpated almost all the annual grasses, by cropping them too early in the spring, before they had time to form their flowers, or to shed their seeds


    45. As such, he was able to wander this world freely


    46. If you let your imagination wander endlessly, you will always want more and more


    47. his leaders wander from the true social liabilities


    48. The capital of a wholesale merchant, on the contrary, seems to have no fixed or necessary residence anywhere, but may wander about from place to place, according as it can either buy cheap or sell dear


    49. As she approached him she saw his eyes wander to her breasts


    50. If your mind starts to wander, you always have the object in front of you to pull your attention back to the moment













































    1. And then that he mauled some EMTs and wandered off


    2. Every time you notice that your mind has wandered off the breath, notice what it was that took you away and then gently bring your attention back to your belly and the feeling of the breath coming in and out


    3. wandered over to the pool bar


    4. Most of the teacher, except for John and Russ, gaze up with vacuous eyes and gaping expressions, giving one the impression that they could possibly be drugged mental patients who have wandered off from an institution


    5. He glances over at Bolt, who has wandered into the snack bar with his camera


    6. Johnny wandered over, clicking his heels on the floor as he walked, still spinning


    7. ‘I was just thinking, it is far too long since I last wandered around in fields of long grass


    8. She wandered around the yacht, tossing things where they looked most comfortable


    9. My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them


    10. He wandered into my room of an afternoon and without saying a word, he would walk up to me, make me stand and hit me in the stomach with his balled fist

    11. He wandered afterward, walking along a sixth floor street till he could see the pier their boat was on


    12. Birds were tweeting and chirping invisibly in the trees as she wandered along the lane towards the main road, it was that dead hour in the middle of the day when, in rural areas, any sensible person is inside enjoying a cup of something … it brought back memories of her childhood … she smiled at the thought … a dog barked somewhere in the distance … and a stick cracked as someone trod on it


    13. Berndt hadn’t pushed his point as they’d wandered back to The Centre last night … in fact he’d not mentioned it again … yet


    14. The captain and a couple others wandered off from the group and it sounded like they were calling Alan when they got nearer the probe


    15. But what about now, on his own and helpless? How long would he be able to live this way? Was it just hours or minutes until he was devoured? Or would he avoid the carnivores only to slowly starve to death as he wandered around completely lost for the next few weeks?


    16. Fred wandered down to where Cosmicblasto and Catwhiskers had


    17. Meanwhile, Jack wandered amongst the dung


    18. Alan wandered with her, not really having any idea what to look for, maybe an inglethor or something


    19. He wandered into camp one day with several other people


    20. They were more or less following the stream by their camp, it wandered around a lot; after all, it was pretty hard even for water to tell which way was downhill around here

    21. They wandered around the grove where they would camp for a long time eating them as the light ended


    22. ’ I replied, anxious that we should be here when Berndt returns and aware that he would not be pleased if we had wandered off somewhere


    23. After an excellent snack I wandered through WH Smith and thrilled to the dizzy heights of buying my first phrase book but from then on it was a downward spiral of fear and boredom


    24. I wandered into the corner of the bar area and ordered an orange juice from the barman


    25. Some showers wandered around offering occasional relief but endangering them with a few sparks of lightening


    26. I crossed the road to the Flea Market in Avissinias square and wandered around, snatching occasional glimpses of the awesome floodlit Acropolis at the end of narrow interlocking streets but it was too early to visit


    27. I wandered round the lanes at the back of the town, losing count of all the drowsy flowers blazing up ahead


    28. In olden days she would have been called a witch, but the soldier, being thoroughly modern in his outlook, just assumed that she had wandered off from her care home


    29. With the last word spoken quite loudly, and in clear Greek, I turned from the group with as much control as I could muster and wandered steadily and slowly toward the kitchen, expecting a blow to the head at every trembling step


    30. I wandered well off the track left in the grass by the other two, feeling and stroking the boulders as I passed, sometimes a long way behind but happy, whistling, and sometimes even singing in an absent-minded way; a lad again with nothing to rush home after school for, and a long time before tea

    31. The old Lotto man wandered among the passengers and as he passed, he interrupted his chanting and shook his head in despair


    32. Her sad and lonely inner child wandered the dark corridors of a huge adult world, while at the same time she could feel the steam head pressure of outrage building in the magma chambers that brooded darkly in the spaces between her quiet outward persona and her molten core


    33. You become aware that your attention has wandered


    34. she had wandered off from her care home


    35. Her sad and lonely inner child wandered the dark corridors of a


    36. moment and wandered over to one of the groups of smokers


    37. He wandered down an embankment and was surprised to spot the small creek he had found yesterday


    38. A ruby throated humming bird, common throughout in these parts, had wandered close by


    39. They then wandered off in the direction of one of the more


    40. The washing up finished, she wandered into the sitting room and settled down with the book she was currently working through

    41. They wandered from room to room around the Lodges


    42. Tom, wandered over to join a couple of the more senior Guardians on


    43. They had wandered by a performance after dinner, some of the men in both the troops were quite built, although he thought the women on the losing team were actually prettier


    44. ‘He wouldn’t have just wandered off


    45. He just wandered off


    46. “How sure could one be of getting noticed on that boat crew?” Ava asked him, bringing them back from where their thoughts had wandered


    47. ‘No idea – it’s possible he just wandered off and got lost … that moor is treacherous


    48. off from his chores, and wandered along the quiet pathways through


    49. My eyes wandered from his eyes to around the


    50. While Roman was in the kitchen, Heather’s eyes wandered across the room














































    1. This trail was so long and boring that her mind was really wandering


    2. I have during these last years of wandering and beggary often considered the


    3. From what we have seen of the way the young man lived, I was rather relieved when Stephen told me that he had fitted bolts to the doors … just in case those keys had gone wandering


    4. ‘And you are not horribly overweight - I’ve seen far worse wandering the streets in the most unsuitable garments


    5. world, an air that brings with it the promise of silence on snowfall, of the wandering


    6. Leonora had been wandering aimlessly around town, and not happily, but it wasn't until she found herself directed back towards the Burger Joint that she really began to wonder about it


    7. His kisses drive me wild and soon his hands are wandering all over the bits of me he can get at


    8. The children of Israel and their forty years wandering in the wilderness; Saul, the first king of Israel (I Samuel, chapter fifteen)


    9. It was just aimless wandering that brought me to Zhlindu, I was actually working as a sex entertainer when I met Nlara


    10. Already there was a fair bit of activity in the streets – people wandering around in what she could only assume was special holiday attire for men of brightly coloured shorts and tops, some women in absurdly brief skirts, others in long muslin affairs that wouldn’t look out of place on Errd, most of them carrying bags of towels and dragging small noisy children laden with buckets and spades

    11. She got up from him and began wandering a little way out into the yellow fronds


    12. Wandering slowly through the concourse trying to kill time before takeoff I tried to give the impression of being a seasoned traveller with my hold-all draped casually over my shoulder whilst clutching a boarding pass to the land of mystery and imagination in my trouser pocket


    13. … don’t think about your feet, Lintze! I stare at the mass of people … families out with their children, young lovers wandering along arm in arm without a care in the world … groups of men – obviously seamen from the ships


    14. It was whilst wandering around ARRIVALS and DEPARTURES in the hope of bumping into Michalis at the check-in that something heavy landed on my foot


    15. After several minutes wandering in the dusk, I realised I couldn't tell a house from an hotel, and I couldn't find the courage to ask


    16. Gilla didn’t know why his marriage failed … could it be because his wife preferred someone else? I can’t see Berndt wandering … he’s not the sort


    17. They were even introduced to a famous footballer and his wife, but found the conversation wandering away from the arts of pruning rather too quickly for their taste


    18. Limbs dangled over one another or lay fastened around kids, twitching and rolling through some wandering dreams


    19. Half an hour earlier, on the other side of that door, I'd been a foolish romantic nomad wandering over the land, crunching dusty tracks underfoot in tune with the pace of my life


    20. “You are sure that Lord Boras has left for his Hold, Gordon; I cannot afford to have him wandering about when our guests arrive

    21. wandering the streets and she befriended me


    22. you wandering about the house in ugly old boots like that”


    23. I had something of a scene with Katie when I brought up the subject of them all staying together in the one room and not wandering off on their own


    24. the conversation wandering away from the arts of pruning rather


    25. of wandering into a sinkhole when crossing was terrifyingly high


    26. Now he was wandering in its shallows


    27. People must have been living on this site for centuries … she visualised fur clad people with straggly hair wandering around the boggy bits with spears … no, that felt wrong … why would they need spears to collect plants? Baskets, perhaps … did they have baskets then? When exactly would it have been? Her daytime TV watching had given her a hazy smattering of terms – bronze age came before iron age, she knew that … but how much before? And when did they stop being savages and become civilised?


    28. Another foray through the jungle of wandering hands at the bar brings two more beers


    29. He didn’t want to be known by the general population as one of the founders because then he would have no privacy when wandering about the place


    30. I can't have him wandering the streets shooting his mouth off

    31. ‘Simthwaite said that Chrissie was prone to wandering off to sit on the shore


    32. ‘Chrissie Hartley-Jones was accustomed to wandering around the moor according to Andy Simthwaite


    33. remember us all wandering about the table, helping


    34. But soon, Jack was joined by two other would-have-been thieves; Goldie and Libby were caught, saying they had been overcome by some great urge of hunger whilst wandering through the Nevermore Forest


    35. Matt grumbled but did as he was told, wandering off a bit to a flat-looking rock where he could cut up the carrots with the knife that Andrew had supplied


    36. Wandering from shop to shop, they caught up on all that had transpired between their last correspondence and the present


    37. ’ Alan thought about trying to go along with her guesses and say his parents got it from some wandering Messiah who said he had Angels making them for him


    38. The less-than-street wise Hankins was now totally on her own, wandering the streets, unsure of


    39. a dilapidated old house with chickens and cows wandering


    40. Ah, I am wandering! What was I saying, Watson?"

    41. Man: "We have to do something! With all these tigers wandering around we're too scared to go out of the village" said one man


    42. The road ahead was constantly flooded with traffic, mostly that of fellow pedestrians wandering through the early morning


    43. Wild tales of an undead horde advancing on the city, plus eyewitness accounts of mages and Death Guards wandering the streets


    44. Other than the occasional soldier, they passed very few people, though Brice could sense that many others were present, wandering through the roots toward their own destinations


    45. They had been collecting posters for services they might need the whole time they had been wandering around the city, and right now they needed a coach and coachman they could control


    46. Hogan spent the next couple of hours wandering around the grounds


    47. The two brothers hated the countryside and spent most of their time wandering the fields with a pair of shotguns and decimating the wildlife


    48. His mind often wandering to thoughts of bloodied flesh on his tongue, Anon drew nearer to the towering trunk of the Dead Tree


    49. Jean joined the crowd wandering along the aisles


    50. And she likewise had always brushed off such tales as parents’ ways of keeping their children from wandering and falling in with loathsome wildlife, rather than anything mystical














































    1. A dog wanders out one of the open front doors and one of students kicks at it, misses, nearly falls on his ass while other students laugh and point


    2. John wanders in, dressed now


    3. Bolt wanders into the photo shop with Al Snafu


    4. A mind wanders the sands,


    5. But let me say this, if you play this stupid game any longer, well they can't be held responsible if another crazy old lady wanders out in front of a speeding car, now can they? Think about it


    6. My mind wanders on to the Prague trip


    7. Ken wanders up to the end of the bar where Alex is sitting


    8. Sometimes the mind wanders into a dark, dark


    9. Fellow who wanders around a golf course counting the tees


    10. Idly my mind wanders back to the point

    11. She's filled with hatred and evil, she wanders the forest in the daylight and at night


    12. Mankind wanders through each individual’s life experience like a mole, with senses sufficient only to his limited burrowing existence, and only vaguely aware that there might be something above him, or beyond him


    13. 23 He wanders abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knows that the day of darkness is already at his hand


    14. The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall remain in the


    15. who wanders from his place


    16. shall gather up him who wanders


    17. 6 "But now, O Adam, that you have gone up over the roof of the cave to sleep, we have had doubts about you, and a great sorrow has come on us because of your separation from Eve; Then again, when you are on the roof of this cave, your prayer is poured out, and your heart wanders from side to side


    18. Roger thinks so too, for Manila can proudly boast of many more wanders than just a dazzling, almost cosmic landscape


    19. body early and wanders about in confusion and fear – while the biomolecu-


    20. ” Your attention wanes and wanders over the mural on the wall

    21. ” He wanders off through the crowd seizing the hand of a dancing girl twirling her a bit before you lose interest


    22. I"ll pull the fuse in case a rat wanders through and electrocutes himself


    23. There is nothing more tragic than a great individual who wanders alone


    24. So Yeshua wonders and wanders through the forests of pine, oak, and cypress, ever alert for dangerous animals and thieves


    25. He stutters and his left eye wanders around uncontrollably, though his good right eye is focused on her slightly open blouse and he wishes he could stop himself, but he can’t and says, “Co… Co… Coff…” He can tell the poor girl is frightened of him and he wishes she weren’t—he really means no harm


    26. A cloud in the upside hills of wonderland wanders outside of the sky


    27. The sheep wanders away, unintentionally; the coin is covered by the dust of time and obscured by the accumulation of the things of men


    28. In Oedipus at Colonus, the blind Oedipus wanders the land, accompanied by and


    29. A minute later Brett wanders back in to the room and the hooker tells him to lay down on the bed so he does


    30. Now while our darling wanders she thinks of

    31. Extra gun turrets are being added all around the vessel and Grailem wanders into a large factory unit that is making even more phaser rifles and pistols


    32. subspecies of tiger that wanders through tropical and sub-


    33. It is amusing how the mind wanders off on its


    34. “She says her soul or spirit wanders the universe and travels to spirit worlds and different dimensions


    35. [20] Ronin: Samurai with no master who wanders around the country


    36. a demon is cast out it wanders the desert for a while, then comes back


    37. He’s about to say something else, but his gaze wanders across the room


    38. Some Western psychologists hold: “The mind that wanders aimlessly can be made to move in a small limited circle only, by the practice of concentration


    39. Jesus said to him: ‘You are afraid for your life; so you will live forever!’ Ahasuerus cannot die and wanders all over the world, no matter how much he’s bored by it


    40. Allah’s flocks wanders in the desert moving blindly in a world deprived of God’s presence

    41. "His spirit wanders, and so he remains in the coma


    42. At times this mind which wanders in the external world starts introspection and analysis of its


    43. He wanders around on the grass and breathes deep in the cool early morning fog


    44. ” So he wanders about in the mortal world, the abode of sorrows, and at last comes to a dead end


    45. wanders about in quest it does not gain its object, but seated on an im-


    46. Her gaze quickly drops and wanders over the royal family beside him, and then it comes back to Loki


    47. Your body convinces you you want it, and then during it you hardly feel like you’re even there, your mind wanders, the sensations become muted


    48. red the virtual whisper wanders fibonacci trails to transcendence


    49. We need more than well wishers; we need well diggers and wells filled with clean water to quench the thirst of those coming to the fonts hoping to drink freely of the everlasting waters that even Eartheart does not own, but shares with the Heavens who wanders them where they will


    50. One narrates the voyage of Telemachus who is looking for news about his father or, in other words, is looking for the father and the laws that he represents, beyond the maternal laws; the second narrates the transformational voyage that Ulysses undertakes with the help of Zeus, Athena and Hermes as he wanders around the Mediterranean; the third part narrates the preparation and the execution of the massacre of the Suitors, which is what Ulysses wants but which is what, above all, Zeus and Athena want to happen

































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    Synonyms for "wander"

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    "wander" definitions

    move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment


    be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage


    go via an indirect route or at no set pace


    to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course


    lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking