vagrate

Example Sentences

• "There is scarcely any doubt, however, that a few do breed in the Carn districts, and that they vagrate out to surrounding hills."
• "A moth that is possessed by the instinct to migrate (which is the wrong word; moths do not "migrate" as the zoologist knows migration; they "vagrate"), soars almost as soon as its wings are dry; the very first flight that it makes is the flight that carries it across the sea."
• "The neonate larvae appear from mid-June to early July and vagrate to the leaves, where they settle, preferably on the lower side."
• "Most western vagrants involve species that frequently vagrate to the East; the only exceptions are all from the Southwest: Broad-billed Hummingbird, Tropical/ Couch's Kingbird, and Cassin's Sparrow (DeSante & Pyle, 1986)."
• "Sometimes one can hear long epic songs, sung in the past perhaps by songsters, who at present are not allowed to vagrate freely."
• "As far as you have observed the free people of colour, have they been disposed to vagrate, except for the purpose of procuring more profitable employment?"