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mosey

[moh-zee] / ˈmoʊ zi /


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Cows may mosey into their barns for bedtime.

From New York Times Apr. 4, 2024

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

From BBC Nov. 8, 2023

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

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 15, 2023

We relaxed in the Adirondack chairs on the deck, watching deer mosey through the back lawn and played Candyland in the lobby while snacking on fries and hummus platters.

From Seattle Times Jun. 30, 2023

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

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

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

So Tukkey he putts 'em on an' moseys down ter de branch ter look at hisse'f in de water.

From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.) by Marshall Pinckney Wilder

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

King hoisted herself to the top of the partition and hung on for dear life until the lion moseyed off.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 26, 2022

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

Joe frowned concernedly as he pushed out of his chair and moseyed into the bathroom to brush his teeth.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

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

Its new version includes the title characters as teenagers, but also a few episodes depicting them in middle age, and they all hit comic notes ‌with moseying cadences you can’t find elsewhere.

From New York Times Oct. 4, 2022

Well, things went as smooth and easy as bob-sledding until it came time for Loys to be moseying back to college again.

From Red Saunders His Adventures West & East by Henry Wallace Phillips




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