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mosey

[moh-zee] / ˈmoʊ zi /


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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

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

“Well, folks,” said Grandpa, taking aholt of her elbow, “I reckon we best mosey on home now. Hit’s been a long fancy day.”

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

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

No,you are fine’turns on his heels and moseys to the monitor.

From The Guardian Sep. 26, 2015

Ho, by my sowl, it shows what moseys they is to think that—what's this you call it?—low-lov-loaf, or whatsomever the devil it is, has to do wid makin' a young couple man and wife.

From Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by Carleton, William

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

My husband and I moseyed down to the Market around happy hour on a Tuesday, hoping to get our names on a list and go have a drink nearby until whatever time dinner materialized.

From Seattle Times Apr. 12, 2024

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

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 26, 2023

In due course, they moseyed off into the nearby narrow roads and alleyways.

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

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

Video caught by OnScene.TV shows the cub scampering down the sidewalk, ambling across neighbors’ yards and moseying into business parking lots, unbothered by the sheriff’s car, which was following it closely.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 9, 2021

When Farnham an' his crowd come moseying up yere, they ain't goin' ter have it all their own way, let me tell yer, pardner.

From Beth Norvell A Romance of the West by Parrish, Randall




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