How to Use wayward in a Sentence

wayward

adjective

• To be sure, the problem of wayward shopping carts is not new.
  — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 21 Jan. 2023
• But be warned: Br’er Bear and Br’er Fox are in hot pursuit of this wayward hare.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 2 Dec. 2022
• Costanza, marred by the wayward drive, tapped in for par, while Hagestad two-putted from the fringe for birdie and the win.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Oct. 2021
• The first was a guy with his mask hanging from his chin like a wayward bandage.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2021
• The water should be on and the hose should be ready to instantly douse any wayward fires.
  — Rebekah L. Sanders, The Arizona Republic, 2 July 2022
• The water should be on, and the hose should be ready to instantly douse any wayward fires.
  — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 5 July 2023
• Lord Curzon had been a wayward pupil at Eton, but through hard work ...
  — Andrew Roberts, National Review, 13 July 2023
• The Heat’s best chance from there was what proved to be a wayward Strus 3-point attempt with 26 seconds left.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 30 Oct. 2022
• The wayward reporters gave A&M way too much credit on that front.
  — Brent Zwerneman, San Antonio Express-News, 17 July 2022
• But what if there were a fast and efficient way to pick up those wayward small pieces?
  — Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 9 Jan. 2024
• Sure, there were the local drunks, the teenage hooligans who tortured stray cats, but even these wayward bees had a place in the hive.
  — Alexander Nazaryan, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2024
• As things stand, that is a wayward proposition, and there is no need for a new law to reform it.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 6 Feb. 2024
• And no, the moment wasn’t lost on the once wayward coach who scored the biggest win of his career in the stadium that saved it.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 9 Sep. 2023
• The wayward son of a newspaper owner, Arthur went to France as a young man and never came back.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2021
• In many team sports, one player can’t reroute a wayward franchise.
  — Tania Ganguli, New York Times, 15 May 2023
• Please be aware that the wayward golf ball had gotten over a tall netting that was surrounding the golf course.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021
• At the same time, the child might veer into the street just after the self-driving car has passed by, and the car behind the self-driving car might strike the wayward child.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2021
• Then, a wayward moment off the tee left him with double bogey on the second hole to drop to 1 under.
  — Adam Smith, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2022
• Matho ends up at an auntie’s house, where a group of other wayward teens are staying.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 July 2023
• The new season of often wayward drama doesn’t just treat many of the people onscreen as NPCs.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 24 June 2022
• The town, having endured a major oil bust, was at last ready to embrace its wayward son.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
• Initially, the Navy tried to scare its wayward flamingo away from a salt marsh between two airstrips.
  — Michael Adno, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2023
• The island, now a full-on playground for the rich and richer, is not where most mothers would like their wayward daughters to turn up.
  — Lisa Levy, Washington Post, 26 May 2023
• The top was paired with a tiny black vest and pants with wide, flapping flares, giving him the look of an earl’s wayward son stumbling out of a brothel at dawn.
  — Piczo, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2021
• Chase handed us straps to pull our supply-laden kayaks behind us in the water like large, wayward dogs.
  — Brigid Mander, WSJ, 21 Oct. 2021
• And her love interest, Max (Demos), has tried to be a better man since his wayward youth and his mother’s death.
  — Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 20 May 2022
• There’s a wealthy local woman pleading with the students to pray for her wayward man to return.
  — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2023
• Colin then whacks Kate's ball after Anthony's, and the two of them head out to claim their wayward equipment.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 26 Mar. 2022
• During a windy game of kickball in September, a wayward bounce and gust sent the ball toward a stormwater ditch.
  — Various Staff Writers, Special Correspondents, and Special Contributors, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec. 2023
• The Celtics spent all night complaining about the zebras and the raucous crowd joined in the wayward notion that the Heat only won because of the referees.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 May 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024