In a sentence
Six example sentences with peripatetic, each labelled with its topic.
Medieval kings led a peripatetic court, moving the whole household from castle to castle as each region's food ran out.
History
The novel's peripatetic narrator sells encyclopedias door to door across four states and never sleeps in the same town twice.
Literature
A peripatetic piano tuner, she works a circuit of two hundred rural churches and is rarely home more than three nights running.
Music
The peripatetic consultant lives out of a carry on, billing four cities a week and sleeping in none of them twice.
Business
A peripatetic nurse drives a circuit of six island clinics, carrying the vaccines in a cooler on the passenger seat.
Medicine
The peripatetic guard played for nine clubs in seven seasons and kept a moving box packed by the door.
Basketball
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