maundering

Example Sentences

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Urgent financial woes are replaced by maundering romantic dramas.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 2026

In the process, “The Twice-Born” becomes a moving, if maundering, riff on what it means to be modern.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 30, 2019

Hughes ran efficient and productive meetings, with a low tolerance for maundering or side conversation, but he was given pause by the gravity of the occasion.

From New York Times • Dec. 14, 2016

Dirda originally described the essays, with characteristic deprecation, as “just me, maundering on about this and that, usually with a literary theme lurking somewhere.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 4, 2015

I used to resent it when my mother would forget I was an adult, but I’m approaching the maundering phase myself, digging out the yellowing baby pictures, mooning over locks of hair.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood