pacing
Example Sentences
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Scott said, such as head bobbing, swaying and pacing.
From Los Angeles Times
When I emerge from the gravel road, Coach Wiley is pacing outside the bus’s open door with a clipboard.
From Literature
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All this excitement and pacing had cost him.
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In the studio and in meetings, Shulman has the restless energy of a kid—pacing around a room or fidgeting with a piano keyboard or bass guitar—combined with the intellectual affect of a quant.
If the plate umpire goes, with it goes one of baseball’s most entertaining/maddening presences–a puff-chested judge and jury, a baked-in villain, an essential part of the game’s pacing and flow.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.