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perambulate

[per-am-byuh-layt] / pərˈæm bjəˌleɪt /
VERB
walk about
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG


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There we perambulate amongst different scenery and mobile-order food — masked, socially distant, seeking some watered-down sense of normalcy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2021

Dear Jane Austen fans: Run, don’t perambulate, to see “Lovers’ Vows.”

From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2019

There’s an orchard of fruit trees and emus perambulate right out your back door.

From New York Times ● Nov. 20, 2017

I follow Nietzsche’s dictum that “only ideas won by walking have any value” and need to perambulate to really get my mind working.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 18, 2017

In 1648, he publicly propagated his opinions, commencing as public preacher at Manchester, which place he frequently left to perambulate the adjacent towns, preaching in the market-houses.

From Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. by Thomas Cantrell Dugdale

They in turn are part of a broader florescence of nature-writing in Britain led by Robert Macfarlane, whose book, “The Old Ways”, perambulates around the country’s ancient byways.

From Economist ● Jul. 5, 2018

After another crack on the noggin, Smothers perambulates into the '40s.

From Time Magazine Archive

Volume changes into line, as our eye perambulates.

From Time Magazine Archive

And as the plot perambulates through three generations, the Kleenex-crumpling goes on and on for the better part of three hours.

From Time Magazine Archive

A dustman perambulates the road on the Braintree side, and canned food becomes possible and convenient therefore.

From What is Coming? by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The first edition of the Sherlock Holmes' adventure Hound Of The Baskervilles is signed with the comment: "I perambulated Dartmoor before I wrote this book," a reference to the book's setting.

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2023

In 1884, he perambulated more than 3,000 miles from Ohio to L.A., writing newspaper dispatches along the way and becoming a sympathetic ethnographer of Native American culture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2022

Everywhere barekneed youngsters in khaki perambulated through the streets with cameras and autograph books.

From Time Magazine Archive

I may well have promenaded, pedestrianized, peregrinated, ambulated, perambulated, circumambulated, hoofed, and locomoted ...

From Time Magazine Archive

The whole apparatus of caucuses and canvasses was put in operation, and the candidates nominated on both Republican and Democratic "tickets" perambulated the county, and addressed audiences in every precinct from the "stump."

From Two Years in Oregon by Wallis Nash

The route: Start your day by perambulating lazily around the historic Dory Fleet Market, checking out the crab and seafood offerings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024

"It was then reported, that a mad woman was in the habit of disturbing the neighbours, by perambulating the church-yard and other walks, in strange and uncouth dresses," the magazine article added.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2022

Why would a perambulating soul wish to miss any of it?

From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2019

There's the perfection of the rose garden, the tranquillity of the lily-clad boating lake and the perambulating white clouds of the sheep in the fields.

From The Guardian ● May 17, 2012

The halls—usually full of residents slowly perambulating from one area to the other or just sitting around chatting—were completely empty.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman




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