mosey
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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 go here first and then mosey on over to the actual farmers market.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 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
“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
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
The doctor, he nods to Sam, and Sam moseys along toward the church.
From Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis
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
The Dodgers had asked him to be ready to go in relief on Friday, so he moseyed on down to the bullpen in the second inning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2025
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
Someone else showed up for the phone, gave her a nod and moseyed away.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 19, 2023
Cole moseyed along slowly, not catching up to Edwin until they reached the trees.
From "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen
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
In a confidently moseying delivery, she talked about falling out of the public eye and coming out of the closet on Facebook, then defensively insisted that’s just where old people are.
From New York Times ● May 9, 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
"Hey, Bud, ain't it 'bout time we were moseying?" called one of Stevens's companions.
From The Pony Rider Boys in the Alkali or, Finding a Key to the Desert Maze by Frank Gee Patchin
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