Example sentences for: peripatetic

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

  • If meaning is to emerge without ambiguity from a language like English, largely uninflected and having many homonyms and homophones, writers must be able to recognize not just the Parts of Speech but also those peripatetic words that wander from one category to another.

  • But he attends to the chaos of Yeats' early life, a bohemian shuffle during which he was at the mercy of his improvident peripatetic father, the painter J.B.

  • 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.

  • In this way, first-rate peripatetic artists are consigned to the pantheon's banlieux rather than its 7th arrondissement.

  • 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of reticence or frostiness from my subject--from the routine (often a fascinating routine) of poring over his unpublished manuscripts in the rare book and manuscript division of the University of Chicago Library; lugging my laptop all over America in quest of high-school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.


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