Illustration: In a quiet Japanese riverside park after light snowfall, a bundled pedestrian pauses where several narrow walking paths meet. Their own footprints loop around a bare tree, cross an earlier trail, and return close to the same junction before veering away again.

さまよう

samayou

to wander, to roam

Example sentences

彼女かのじょは森もりをさまよっていた。
She was wandering in the woods.
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彼かれは田舎いなかをあちこちさまよった。
He wandered about the country.
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その少年しょうねんは町まちをさまよっていた。
The boy was wandering about the town.
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