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perambulate

[per-am-byuh-leyt] / 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

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

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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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