Example sentences for: peripatetic

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

  • Small, gnomelike, with an acerbic, high-pitched voice, he was a tramp scholar who, in a peripatetic life on the fringes, became a recognized authority on Seminole fabrics, Ukrainian Easter eggs, and the ubiquity of string figures in the world's cultures.

  • Over the next decade, I made my biographer's rounds, like the postman deterred neither by sleet nor snow--nor by occasional emanations of reticence or frostiness from my subject--from the routine (often a fascinating routine) of poring over his unpublished manuscripts in the rare book and manuscript division of the University of Chicago Library; lugging my laptop all over America in quest of high-school classmates, cousins, friends, and lovers of my famously peripatetic subject; driving Avis rental cars into the remotest suburbs of Los Angeles and flying into Buffalo, N.Y., in pursuit of letters in private hands.

  • Which goes to show, perhaps among other things, that the Bard was no surer on his feet when it comes to the peripatetic letter h than the rest of us.

  • peripatretic (peripatetic) Alexander Haig, MacNeil/ Lehrer 19 December 1994

  • Highpoints of her peripatetic proselytizing in 2002 were:


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