How to Use peripatetic in a Sentence

peripatetic

adjective

• She worked as a peripatetic journalist for most of her life.
• He had a peripatetic career as a salesman.
• All and all, the past year has been a time of Glass lost and Glass found, the first time a peripatetic composer stopped in his tracks.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2021
• Her father was near the end of his long, peripatetic career.
  — Dallas News, 28 Aug. 2022
• This wasn’t how it was supposed to turn out for the peripatetic Patterson.
  — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 27 Feb. 2020
• The Crosbys were one of those peripatetic Navy families, with postings all over the country and the world.
  — Brian Williams, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Mar. 2018
• At 21, already an avid and peripatetic soap salesman, he was given a share of the business.
  — Frank Fitzpatrick, Philly.com, 20 May 2017
• This is only the latest twist on a peripatetic word that has traveled through many lands and languages.
  — Ben Zimmer, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2018
• Dahl is a peripatetic writer based, at the moment, in Brooklyn.
  — Kieran Dahl, Washington Post, 30 June 2020
• Life as a college football coach can be peripatetic at best.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Nov. 2019
• The Hill House Home founder had a peripatetic childhood, moving around between London and other parts of the world.
  — Betsy Blumenthal, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 July 2022
• The novel bops back and forth between these two pasts, intertwining the saga of Maxwell’s peripatetic life with the quest of Saul and Javier.
  — Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2020
• O’Rourke has sought to change that with a peripatetic campaign strategy that will take him to all of the state’s 254 counties by Election Day.
  — Kevin Diaz, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Dec. 2017
• This is a full-circle revolution, in a way, for this peripatetic gallerist and a chance to take things to the next level.
  — John Zotos, Dallas News, 8 Sep. 2021
• The peripatetic life of an actor means that long distance is an inevitability for the duo.
  — Christopher Wallenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2018
• Hunter was born Robert Burns and had a peripatetic childhood, including some time in a foster home.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2019
• True, there are many bits along the way that detail the quirks of Williams’s peripatetic life and his wild inventory of acquaintances.
  — Ethan Mordden, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2018
• And Witold, who leads the peripatetic life of a travelling artist, must serve as a local trinket, a curio, for the global flow of commerce.
  — Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
• Our peripatetic army of street girls know the convention schedules around town better than the hotel guards.
  — Gail Sheehy, Daily Intelligencer, 8 Sep. 2017
• Back came the peripatetic Warriors, blitzing the Lakers with a 14-0 run fueled by Steph Curry and the team's other sharp shooters.
  — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 3 May 2023
• At least for now, no Biden has sued the peripatetic Rudy Giuliani for libel and character defamation.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 2 Nov. 2020
• But the improved road means a less peripatetic life, with less time spent on the lower-altitude winter pastures.
  — Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2022
• Munch refused to stay put; his constant motion can bring to mind that of the great peripatetic postwar German artist Sigmar Polke.
  — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 27 July 2023
• The 55-year-old speaks in a faint, untraceable accent that hints at her peripatetic upbringing.
  — Meredith Blake Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2022
• There, Prior helped revitalize the career of Olaf Kolzig, a peripatetic goaltender who spent the better half of his first eight years as a pro in the minors.
  — Matt Rybaltowski, New York Times, 11 May 2018
• The honor of writing the epilogue went to Dr. Church himself, whose peripatetic prose is challenging, to put it mildly.
  — David Holahan, USA TODAY, 3 July 2017
• Picasso's mural, after a peripatetic life around the world, only made its way home in 1981.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2017
• Karl has been a peripatetic adventurer and history buff for most of his eighty years.
  — Hillary Angelo, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022
• When the 76-year-old hasn’t been performing with the Rolling Stones, Jagger has carved out a peripatetic but adventurous career in movies.
  — Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2020
• The peripatetic gathering is supposed to travel next to Eastern Europe, and the host country should already have been announced.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2023

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