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mosey

[moh-zee] / ˈmoʊ zi /


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Through the diner’s large front-facing windows, we watched a cowboy mosey past on his horse, checking out the variety of vehicles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

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

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 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

Most days in a Houston suburb, some of the best gymnasts in the nation mosey into their training facility for another 7 a.m. practice.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2023

“I reckon it wouldn’t. Now, you got any more questions, or can we mosey on about our business?”

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

Ringo Starr moseys up to the restaurant at the Sunset Marquis in a spotless white cowboy hat and matching white denim jacket.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2024

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

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2023

In other words, what could have been a taut, gripping, emotional story ends up being diluted by a surrounding narrative that meanders and moseys to the point of irrelevance.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 12, 2021

She moseys, she circles, she lies in wait.

From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2020

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 Sewell Ford

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

The pair moseyed the budget-friendly aisles, going from consumers to culture jammers in the process.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2023

Whether the mystery brute registered my sweaty presence or not, it soon moseyed through my semi-primitive campsite and back into the woods.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2021

At one point, just before he moseyed to the den to watch Sunday news shows, he looked at me and said, “Why so quiet, Sweet Pea? Something wrong?”

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

After a year of moseying around each other, divine intervention skewered us better than Cupid’s arrow, and we were brought together.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2024

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

From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2023

Sheng Wang, who shares a laid-back drawl, moseying delivery and gift for ingenious premise, has learned the right lessons from him while mapping out his own style.

From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2022

They've also been spotted hoovering up crops in their wake and moseying into people's houses - on one occasion, lining up in a courtyard to drink water, successfully turning on a tap with their trunks.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2021

I was thinking," said Packard, "of moseying on to Ranch Number Ten.

From Man to Man by Jackson Gregory




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