mill around

Example Sentences

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The national fire service has posted images on X of workers at the site as an agitated crowd mill around the scene.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

In the middle are two young society beauties wearing the new clingy fashions with uncaricatured style, but amongst the mixed-sex groups that mill around them are gratuitously padded older women.

From Slate • Jul. 21, 2025

In the video, bar patrons calmly mill around a parking lot filled with motorcycles.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2023

Coming down the ramp at Big Air Shougang, Swedish freestyle skier Oliwer Magnusson isn’t thinking much about the shuttered steel mill around him.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 10, 2022

The traffic thins, and a few teachers mill around the doors.

From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements