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mosey

[moh-zee] / ˈmoʊ zi /


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There are already plenty of places in the capital where a mosey around merely needs a mouse.

From BBC Nov. 8, 2023

We’ll go here first and then mosey on over to the actual farmers market.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 15, 2023

We wring our hands like maiden aunts as they mosey blithely into danger: What could possibly go wrong in this cobwebbed basement/cabin in the woods/polygamist doomsday cult?

From New York Times May 25, 2023

The college football season brings out devoted Jackson State fans who watch away games on the bistro’s flat-screen TVs or mosey over from the stadium after home games.

From Seattle Times Sep. 4, 2022

Had they just heard about auditions this morning and decided to mosey on by?

From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English

Tim, an African spurred tortoise, moseys near the rabbit hutch.

From Seattle Times Sep. 8, 2023

She moseys, she circles, she lies in wait.

From New York Times Oct. 13, 2020

But whenever the season ends, tip your cap to Holtby as he moseys off the ice — and into the unknown.

From Washington Post Aug. 17, 2020

Midnight Cowboy moseys into UK cinemas again next month on the occasion of its 50th anniversary, and with it comes another opportunity to ask whether this is a film about homophobia or a homophobic film.

From The Guardian Aug. 25, 2019

Rusty, he just grins and moseys down the road, while I goes back to see the show, feelin' about as much to home, after that run in, as a stray pup in church.

From Side-stepping with Shorty by Ford, Sewell

Over the three days, people moseyed by the pop-up near Diplo’s Honky Tonk, sometimes lining up to wait their turn to take a photo in front of the sign.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 27, 2026

All that is to say, when Black moseyed into a Bluesky hornet’s nest about the upcoming HBO “Harry Potter” series, I honestly think he underestimated how much he’d get stung.

From Salon Apr. 2, 2026

That afternoon, I tagged along with Kaylee Aleu, 19, and Chloe Wangensteen, 21, as they moseyed around a quad filled with students and alumni who had set up camp before the game.

From Slate Oct. 30, 2024

They ambled halls, strolled stairs, marched in place, squatted, hopped or otherwise moseyed about in whatever way they found convenient, tolerable and not overly distracting or amusing to their co-workers.

From Seattle Times Sep. 8, 2021

I’d always liked movies and theaters, so one afternoon I moseyed up to this movie house on Seventh Avenue and asked for the manager.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride

Their first crack at it, they were kind of moseying down that water.

From Salon Dec. 25, 2023

The delegation left without further discussion, moseying back to the helipad to join the pilot, who’d never left her seat.

From Slate Dec. 16, 2023

Instead of "moseying through" he was now trying to make every day "as good as it could possibly be".

From BBC Aug. 11, 2023

In a confidently moseying delivery, she talked about falling out of the public eye and coming out of the closet on Facebook, then defensively insisted that’s just where old people are.

From New York Times May 9, 2022

When Farnham an' his crowd come moseying up yere, they ain't goin' ter have it all their own way, let me tell yer, pardner.

From Beth Norvell A Romance of the West by Parrish, Randall




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