perambulate
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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
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
Muhammad ended many ancient rituals at the Kaaba in Mecca, but continued to let worshippers perambulate around the granite cube.
From Economist ● Jun. 11, 2015
In the carnival processions of the fifteenth century which issued from the Capitol to perambulate the city, the caporioni, surrounded by fifty mounted grooms wearing their distinctive livery, preceded the Senators.
From Rome by Hope Malleson
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
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
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After another crack on the noggin, Smothers perambulates into the '40s.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Volume changes into line, as our eye perambulates.
From Time Magazine Archive
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To-day, she has come down to the sand, where, with base distended, as if in caricature of crinoline, she perambulates the crowded thoroughfare.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858 by Various
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
I may well have promenaded, pedestrianized, peregrinated, ambulated, perambulated, circumambulated, hoofed, and locomoted ...
From Time Magazine Archive
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Everywhere barekneed youngsters in khaki perambulated through the streets with cameras and autograph books.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He got out of bed and perambulated the room for some minutes.
From Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois by Elmer W. Cavins
Scaling Southern California’s tallest peaks provides a purer rush than perambulating its most famous streets, but the streets stick with you.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2023
"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
Then Simone Zaza brought the house down by mimicking a man perambulating down a walkway constructed of hot coals, broken glass and bricks of Lego, before blazing the ball way over the bar.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 15, 2016
In fact, for two years hand-running, almost daily, and in spite of the three-legged shepherd’s fang-baring snarls, Bernabe had been ticketing Onofre’s perambulating junk heap.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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