Example sentences for: nomadic

How can you use “nomadic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • There are a number of reasons for this: a nomadic office life over the last year, which left me without a reliable physical address; contributing to "Media Grok," an e-mail newsletter that thrives on Web links; and the sheer amount of time I spend staring at my laptop screen.

  • Instinct is "inspired" by Daniel Quinn's 1991 cult novel Ishmael , which is largely a Socratic, telepathic dialogue between a man and a gorilla, the latter of whom hectors the former about the destructive path of modern society and restates the history of the world as a struggle between "leavers" (animals, wise nomadic tribes) and "takers" (mostly white males).

  • The nomadic traveler Lafcadio Hearn compared it to an inverted half-open fan, or "some exquisite sloping of shoulders toward the neck."

  • Siyad Barre's military misadventures generated tens of thousands of refugees, destroyed previously self-sufficient nomadic cultures, and got the Somali economy hooked on cheap foreign grain and foreign currency.

  • So Abraham, the first Patriarch, led his nomadic group of Israelites from Mesopotamia to the mountains of Canaan, where they fought the ruling Egyptians.


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