mill around

Example Sentences

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The soldiers had been on a high-visibility patrol near the corner of 17th and I streets, an area where many office workers mill around at lunchtime.

From BBC • Nov. 27, 2025

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

As the officers mill around, one officer wearing his hat backward grabs a skateboard.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2025

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

These plans come to nothing, but alterations are made to the mill around now.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman