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

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

Ice is hawked about the streets of Lima for sale, and all day long Indians, carrying pails on their heads, perambulate the streets, crying helado.

From Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests by Thomasina Ross

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

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

Volume changes into line, as our eye perambulates.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Do you imagine that she perambulates about the sacred precincts of 'Five Points,' or the purlieus of Chatham Street?"

From Infelice by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

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 sober rooks perambulated the green sward in pairs.

From Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories by Louisa Morgan

"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

Streets of Philadelphia won Bruce Springsteen an Oscar, and Demme shot the accompanying music video in which a perambulating Springsteen does not lip-synch.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 16, 2019

So the owner of the chickens addressed the matter by building a wire fence in her backyard, corralling the perambulating poultry.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2014

Plain navy stripes, like so many perambulating beach umbrellas?

From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2012

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