How to Use nomad in a Sentence

nomad

noun
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  • He lived like a nomad for a few years after college, never holding a job in one place for very long.
  • There’s now a place on the high seas for the new nomad.
    — Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 June 2019
  • For the nomad in your life, who loves to hike and camp.
    — Angela Belt, House Beautiful, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Berlin is the best city in the world to be a digital nomad.
    — Sara Tardiff, ELLE Decor, 22 Nov. 2017
  • The 20-year-old had dropped out of college and bought a van to live as a nomad.
    — Guillermo Contreras, ExpressNews.com, 14 June 2019
  • Their real roots are on the battlefield, on the steppes, with the nomads.
    — Jacob Mikanowski, Harper's magazine, 21 July 2019
  • But the house is quiet again, and Sperling is no longer a nomad in her own home.
    — Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Here on the central Asian steppe, the ancient home of Genghis Khan and his Mongol horde, the nomads are brought up tough.
    — Simon Denyer, Washington Post, 8 July 2018
  • The nomads will pack up camp and return to their real home – the road – moving like blood cells through the veins of the country.
    — Janet Saidi, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2017
  • And keep in mind that the stakes are much lower as a digital nomad.
    — cleveland, 21 Feb. 2021
  • The nomads, thankfully, nod and point toward a swell of hills.
    — Jason Harper, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 July 2018
  • Dwight Howard was a nomad, on the verge of being unsigned, before the Lakers gave him a chance.
    — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 13 Oct. 2020
  • The Bedouins are descendants of Arab nomads who roamed the desert for hundreds of years, herding sheep, goats and camels.
    — Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 14 Oct. 2023
  • In the coming weeks, the modern-day nomads and others like them will have to find a new stealth campsite.
    — Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The nomads take the weapons to the border with Israel, where they are picked up by criminal gangs who then move them to the West Bank.
    — Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Quartzsite is a central location, a home base for a group of nomads who wander from one job to the next.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Is Fern a vagabond, a nomad, a pioneer, or just a hermit?
    — Armond White, National Review, 15 Jan. 2021
  • Swankie plays a version of herself, a nomad who befriends Fern and spends some time with her.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Swankie, a nomad who plays herself in the film, helped locate other options for the crew near Quartzsite.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 19 Feb. 2021
  • Larissa and Michael Milne have been full-time global nomads since 2011.
    — Michael Milne, Philly.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Not even the Bedouin nomads with their camels are visible, because there are too few of them amid the vast landscape.
    — Vivienne Walt, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Early settlement began with the arrival of the nomads in the Stone Age, who hunted for seals and birds, and fished.
    — New York Times, 12 Nov. 2019
  • The career nomad was returning home with one of his best friends, ready to make an impact.
    — Akeem Glaspie, Indianapolis Star, 3 May 2020
  • Maybe next time, Zhao can raise the stakes on the heroic vibes by mixing in a drop of nomad reality.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 24 Oct. 2021
  • Most of the population were nomads before their way of life was changed by colonists.
    — Vincent Kituku, idahostatesman, 2 June 2017
  • Becoming a nomad is about, for many of us, going through the darkness of the tunnel, looking for the light at the other end.
    — Vulture Editors, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2021
  • El Centro has owned its building for three years but was a nomad before that.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Luplow has been a bit of a baseball nomad as a major leaguer.
    — José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 6 May 2022
  • The group’s founding members are Berber nomads who met more than 40 years ago at a refugee camp in Algeria.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2024
  • Soon, Pete and Navarro are heading out to the nomads’ village at stupid o’clock, which is the only time in Ennis these days.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2024

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