perambulate

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

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

And so Robert was bowed out, to perambulate the streets in rather bitter humour.

From Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement by Elizabeth Hely Walshe

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The bride then perambulates a small spot marked out in the centre of the orchard.

From Folklore as an Historical Science by George Laurence Gomme

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

Having roused the old couple and got them to put on some clothes, a search-party of four perambulated the house.

From The Brightener by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

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

The Bronx Zoo reopened last July, with timed tickets and reduced capacity, so, for a time, you could commune in relative privacy with rhinos and silverback gorillas, as though perambulating your own private nature preserve.

From New York Times ● Jul. 2, 2021

It ends with its perambulating audience gathered in a dank cellar, trying to figure out the code that will open a locked trunk.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 18, 2010

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