◊ If you have a wandering eye, you look at and have sexual thoughts about other people even though you are already in a romantic relationship.(有伴侣却带着)色迷迷的眼神
Adjective your decidedly wandering essay loses its punch—stick to one theme a wandering carnival that visited small towns all over the South
Recent Examples on the Web
Adjective
This idea is explored at length in a wandering and wonderful Tim Ferris conversation with Balaji. Tom Vander Ark, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021 The tapes include the distortions of a do-it-yourself recording project, with its prickly static and wandering amplification. Ben Brantley, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2020 And the team found that artificial traps with feathers around them captured more wandering arthropods than those without. Joshua Rapp Learn, Scientific American, 8 Nov. 2019 Donovan was born in Glasgow, Scotland and was a high school dropout and sort of wandering beach bum, according to his bio. Mike Oliver | Moliver@al.com, al, 4 Aug. 2019 Little little orishas is the story of Sango, a simple-minded and defiant wandering spirit, and his gentle sister Oya. Ciku Kimeria, Quartz Africa, 2 June 2019 Cormier is a storyteller who celebrates song itself and the wandering spirit that infuses folk music and the lives of many folk singers. John Adamian, courant.com, 17 Mar. 2018 Numerous officers responded to find the girl’s parents after passersby reported the wandering toddler, police said. Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 26 Mar. 2018
Noun
Such an antiquated, cute notion – wandering and browsing through a shop with a limited number of titles and retail prices. Steve Strauss, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2022 Nearly 1,000 ticket holders descended on downtown Detroit on Wednesday for an evening of restaurant wandering, sampling signature food and drinks to benefit charity. Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 5 Aug. 2022 While cleaning out the Father’s things, for instance, Alice comes across a dictionary; Chen tracks the wandering of her mind in a rangy mini-essay about literacy, from immigrant assimilation to prison libraries to the Internet. Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2022 For all her wandering, Lambert’s partner remains her true north in this upbeat, sweet ode to a love that distance only make grow fonder. Melinda Newman, Billboard, 29 Apr. 2022 There’s wonders in this world beyond our wandering. Adam B. Vary, Variety, 13 Feb. 2022 The wandering of these electrons across a battery cell is what generates a current. Gregory Barber, Wired, 1 Feb. 2022 There’s endless wandering, and with no overarching map to reference or waypoints to set, Shadow Man’s moment-to-moment gameplay is a dated, tedious exercise in frustration. Mitch Wallace, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022 The tracking program helped slow his wandering, but could not stop it.New York Times, 8 Feb. 2022 See More
Word History
First Known Use
Adjective
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above