mosey
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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
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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
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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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