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Example sentences for: wayward

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

Eve wears it too, as do many female saints--the wayward Magdalene included--and many princesses.
The magazine gleefully anticipates a Senate race between Hillary Clinton and Rudolph Giuliani: "It feels like a government subsidy for wayward journalists."
Sometimes she becomes visible to the wayward husband who is out late, drinking, and when he approaches her, she turns into an ugly horse-faced hag, scaring him into swearing abstinence forever.
Peevish , from which the noun and verb peeve appear to have been back-formed, has been used since the 14th century with a wide variety of senses, including `childish, silly, wayward, thoughtless, froward, uncouth, perverse' (which some think is the source), and even `witty.
What happens then is an enchanting blend of old and new, as Finn is summoned to the manse of Nora Dinsmoor (Anne Bancroft), a filthy-rich ex-socialite driven mad by her abandonment, decades earlier, by a wayward fiance.