perambulate

Example Sentences

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

From Washington Post • Nov. 11, 2019

Cleese’s habitual sardonicism notwithstanding, it’s a gentle sort of farce, tenderly played and set mostly to the speed at which the elder cast members perambulate.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 11, 2019

It doesn’t perambulate, but plummets with the graceful inevitability of a shot bird.

From New York Times • May 10, 2018

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

At Culross a custom prevailed from time immemorial for the young men to perambulate the streets in procession, carrying green boughs, on the 1st of July each year.

From A Calendar of Scottish Saints by Barrett, Michael