What's the difference between roam and saunter?

Roam


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To go from place to place without any certain purpose or direction; to rove; to wander.
  • (v. t.) To range or wander over.
  • (n.) The act of roaming; a wandering; a ramble; as, he began his roam o'er hill amd dale.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Nobody is sure what dangerous chemical imbalance this would create but the Fiver is convinced we'd all be dust come October or November, the earth scorched, with only three survivors roaming o'er the barren landscape: Govan's answer to King Lear, ranting into a hole in the ground; a mute, wild-eyed pundit, staring without blinking into a hole in the ground; and a tall, irritable figure standing in front of the pair of them, screaming in the style popularised by Klaus Kinski, demanding they take a look at his goddamn trouser arrangement, which he has balanced here on the platform of his hand for easy perusal, or to hell with them, for they are no better than pigs, worthless, spineless pigs.
  • (2) Or you can do it at the desk with your smartphone if you can remember the website address, don’t mind the data roaming charges, can remember your national insurance number and are impervious to the long queue developing behind you”.
  • (3) Groups of men with machetes have been roaming the ruins seeking supplies of food or water.
  • (4) From flood defences to Crossrail 2, corporation tax cuts to provision for people with disabilities , the risks of Brexit to £20m for Hull: this was a chancellor roaming the political landscape with undiminished swagger and not a hint of apology.
  • (5) You can regularly spot Darth Vaders , dogs dressed like Yoda and even the occasional stormtrooper roaming the halls of our data centers,” he wrote .
  • (6) executive director Richard Lloyd said: "Capping EU mobile roaming charges is welcome news for millions of travellers, especially those who have faced expensive charges for data roaming when their mobile hasn't even left their suitcase.
  • (7) Up to half a million wolves once roamed across America , living in harmony with native Americans who revered them for supposed healing powers.
  • (8) Two male English Setters were noticed to be breathing rapidly, hyperexcitable, and atactic after roaming a rural area for 2 hours.
  • (9) If the UK were to remain a member of the European Economic Area, which includes all EU member states plus Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland, British consumers would continue to benefit from the abolition of roaming charges.
  • (10) Kroes is proposing that companies which phase out roaming from July 2014 will face lighter-touch regulation.
  • (11) "Under the deal, a 50p cap protects mobile users from accidentally running up unexpected bills if they forget to turn off their data roaming setting."
  • (12) For Fo, the key to understanding Grillo is not in 21st-century Italy but in the 13th century, when storytellers – giullari – roamed Italy, entertaining crowds in piazzas with lewd and ancient tales interwoven with satirical attacks on local potentates.
  • (13) Yet, a survey of 108 families demonstrated that free-roaming poultry were often not thought of as a health risk for children.
  • (14) He was dishonourably discharged from the army on a charge of indecency, roamed Europe as a vagrant, thief and homosexual prostitute, then spent a lengthy period in and out of jail in Paris following a dozen or so arrests for larceny, the use of false papers, vagabondage and lewd behaviour.
  • (15) Spanish operators and others in southern Europe, for instance, benefit hugely from the roaming business among holiday-makers.
  • (16) Explorers brought camels to Australia to help them travel in the desert, and now an estimated 1 million roam wild across the country.
  • (17) She was charged even though the trader specifically told her that roaming charges would not apply in European countries.
  • (18) In The Hound of the Baskervilles, locals live in fear of Selden, an escaped murderer who roams Dartmoor.
  • (19) Roaming table • Download before you go Make sure you download what you need before you leave home, including apps, books, films or music, plus city maps, guides, etc, says Ofcom, and check downloads are fully completed before you leave.
  • (20) Separatists have squatted in his office, masked gunmen roam the streets with impunity, and Russia – the giant, growling neighbour – threatens to invade.

Saunter


Definition:

  • (n. & v.) To wander or walk about idly and in a leisurely or lazy manner; to lounge; to stroll; to loiter.
  • (n.) A sauntering, or a sauntering place.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It’s also good decorum to cover your parts with both hands on entering and leaving the water (note bottoms are generally considered less offensive) and not to saunter around once on land.
  • (2) Magic in the Moonlight (25 July) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The latest from Woody Allen is something of a small gem, with Colin Firth and Emma Stone sauntering through a 1930s-era Côte d'Azur, saying witty things about magic and love and faith.
  • (3) I can see him very clearly now, leaving Magdalen and sauntering up the High Street, looking about him in his friendly but slightly abstracted fashion.
  • (4) "We call them our girls," says David Strachan affectionately, watching the line of bright-eyed brown Jersey cows saunter obligingly from their cubicles – their indoor home during the chilly winter months – and into the adjoining milking parlour.
  • (5) Smooth South African Trevor Noah saunters into shot, smiling, while the show’s trio of regular comedy sidekicks, Jessica Williams, Hasan Minhaj and Jordan Klepper, play around with a vuvuzela and some basic rugby terminology in a lame effort to ingratiate themselves with the new star.
  • (6) They saunter off to a standing ovation accompanied by much appreciative hat waving.
  • (7) 9.03pm GMT 62 min: Rafael bowls Alonso to the floor as the Sunderland defender saunters up and down the left wing.
  • (8) Then the lock passed the ball down to Woodcock who sauntered straight through the middle.
  • (9) This is a format where two players who pride themselves on sauntering through bars in stupid clothes compete to seduce REAL women in REAL clubs, judged by a panel of "expert pick-up analysts".
  • (10) She has been banned from attending Ukip meetings since publishing last month’s cover lampooning Farage , his beaming face flanked by Al Murray and the Prophet Zebadiah with a shared speech bubble: “I’m the joke candidate.” This kind of strong-arm behaviour seems par for the course: two young chaps saunter in, looking very different from tonight’s retired-double-glazing-magnate-with-small-brushy-moustache style.
  • (11) Brazil deserved to win, though the Dutch could legitimately claim that Bebeto's goal should have been chalked off, Romario sauntering around offside in the build-up.
  • (12) They had just confessed to war crimes, to heinous acts, and I had videotaped it, and then they just sauntered off into the woods.
  • (13) Occasionally he makes geography itself impossible – the Bohemian seacoast in A Winter's Tale , or the lion that saunters through Arden in As You Like It – but even these, it might be argued, are testament to the boundlessness of his imagination.
  • (14) This pith squirt stings because we want our politicians to be motivated by high ideals and compassion and not to secretly seethe every time Harry Styles impeccably saunters through the public mind with hair that gently binds his scalp to the heavens and mankind to the angels.
  • (15) Robben, replacing Mandzukic in the existential vagueness down the right, takes his time, saunters into the area, cuts inside Adriano, and curls a peach into the top-left corner.
  • (16) A s he saunters into the shisha bar atop one of Kabul's most exclusive hotels, the man accused of rivalling only the Taliban in terms of the damage he has done to Afghanistan does not seem particularly haunted by his actions.
  • (17) Poise was restored as Charlotte Higgins deboulé-d around Powell and Pressberger's The Red Shoes and Jonathan Haynes kissed the ring of The Princess Bride , before Tony Paley sauntered in and ordered two and half hours of straight up Rio Bravo .
  • (18) On one occasion, as I was interviewing Le Pen père in his study (covered in nautical memorabilia, gorgeous view of the capital), Marine came sauntering in.
  • (19) So when Spirescu sauntered through with a woolly cap pulled down over his ears and admitted it was his first time in the UK and that he was here to work, he was quickly surrounded by journalists – as well as the chairman of the home affairs select committee, Keith Vaz.
  • (20) That Blair and his ministers still saunter among us, gathering money wherever they go, is a withering indictment of a one-sided system of international justice: a system whose hypocrisies Tutu has exposed.