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Example sentences for "roamed"

Lexicographically close words:
roadster; roadsters; roadway; roadways; roam; roaming; roams; roan; roans; roar
  1. A band of refugees, chiefly Abenakis and Mohegans, driven from their native seats, had roamed into these distant wilds, and were wintering in the friendly neighborhood of the French.

  2. The men roamed on shore, and plunged into every excess of debauchery, contracting diseases which eventually killed them.

  3. As the settlers come in, they capture them and tame them, so that in places where once the wild horses roamed in great droves, hardly one is now to be seen, and the much better American horse has taken his place.

  4. Bands of these human fiends, many hundreds strong, roamed over the highlands of Castile and Arragon, and were only dispersed, after plundering and devastating the country, when sufficient military force had at length been collected.

  5. From the fact that they are dressed in buckskin I knew they must be hunters or trappers, but supposed it would turn out that they were French voyageurs, such as have roamed throughout the Northwest country since the time of Pontiac.

  6. It was not the hostile Indians that caused Mayhew to say this, nor yet the fact that all sorts of wild beasts doubtless roamed these wild places by night.

  7. I roamed about alone, admiring all that was beautiful and enjoyable in the streets that had been transformed by the beautiful festal decorations.

  8. On my first voyage I roamed about with him a great deal, even lodged in the same hut, but never knew that he was such a brute and drunkard.

  9. Here roamed those who had fallen victims to unrequited love, not freed from pain even by death itself.

  10. Spears stood fixed in the ground, and the horses, unharnessed, roamed over the plain.

  11. The man's hollow eyes avoided his and roamed restlessly about the gallery, looking at picture after picture and scarcely seeing them.

  12. He stared at her, then his eyes roamed restlessly: "How?

  13. He just roamed round saying to the others, 'Why don't you do this?

  14. So he went forth and roamed over the vlakte till he met old Three Sticks, the Ostrich.

  15. But John a Cleeve roamed the streets at random, alone, unconscious that all the while he gripped the hilt of his cousin's naked sword.

  16. These early men apparently hunted the bison and now-extinct elephant-like mammoths that roamed the Palo Duro area during the Ice Age of Pleistocene time (see geologic time scale, fig.

  17. First, as the hunting grounds of prehistoric Indians who stalked the now-extinct Ice Age mammoths and bison that roamed the valley floor.

  18. You're very considerate in fearing it will be dull for me, but I've roamed about the world so much that I shall be glad of a little dullness.

  19. I've roamed pretty much all over the world in that time, and I've come back as poor as I went away.

  20. We are permitted to conceive that over our savannas in Mesozoic times there roamed monstrous reptiles of strange shapes, such as are known to have existed in adjacent states.

  21. But during the long interglacial epochs which intervened between the ice invasions, forests grew and animals now extinct roamed over our hills and plains.

  22. Fox cubs roamed abroad away from their mothers, self-willed and reveling in the abundance; and it was now easy for two of the young wolves to drive a fox out of his daytime cover and catch him as he stole away.

  23. Meeting the wolves now, as they roamed wild and free over the great range, one would hardly have recognized the little brown creatures that he saw playing about the den where the trail began.

  24. Then the wolves had to stand aside; for the stags roamed over all the land, pawing the moss in fury, bellowing their hoarse challenge, and charging like a whirlwind upon every living thing that crossed their paths.

  25. Polly smiled happily as she looked away over the distant mountain-sides where Nature's creatures roamed unrestrained.

  26. And the gorgeous hues and beauty of the strange wild-flowers caused exclamations from Eleanor, while Barbara gasped at the vast herds of cattle, grazing, as they roamed over the plains.

  27. All that summer Robin Hood and his merry men roamed in Sherwood Forest, and the fame of their deeds ran abroad in the land.

  28. For you must know, by a curious process of reasoning, Robin and his men had hunted in the royal preserves so long that they had come to consider themselves joint owners to every animal which roamed therein.

  29. As he walked, the peacefulness of the morning came upon him, and brought back to his memory the early days so long ago when he had roamed these same glades with Marian.

  30. She had a home of her very own to lock up, and though she had roamed through pleasures and palaces, she agreed that, be it ever so horrible, there's no place like home.

  31. The surf Mrs. Nuddle had raised in the little private sea of her tub had died down, and a froth of soap dried on the rawhide of her big forearms as her heifer eyes roamed the newspaper-gallery of portraits.

  32. If he did happen just now to be at home my solicitude would of course seem officious; for in his many wanderings--I believed he had roamed all over the globe--he would certainly have learned how to manage.

  33. An officer for India bound was he, And with her mother soon they crossed the sea, While I roamed o'er the Continent to find Relief and comfort for my restless mind.

  34. Instead of houses, he saw the horizon; instead of streets or walled gardens, he roamed over fields bathed in sunlight and wind.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "roamed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.