perambulatory

Example Sentences

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It’s a sprawling document—you have to get through 173 nonbinding perambulatory paragraphs before you even get to the regulation itself.

From Slate • May 8, 2017

“I always wish I were one of those perambulatory writers like Wallace Stevens.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2017

An omnibus has always appeared to me, to be a perambulatory exhibition-room of the eccentricities of human nature.

From Basil by Collins, Wilkie

Don Carlos had so done; he was in Spain, it was true, but where he was at the moment the Cura was unable to say; his court was perambulatory.

From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) by O'Shea, John Augustus

This was her sixth season, and it was rapidly becoming a case of real distress, and she was getting blue, oh, to a frightful extent—a perambulatory epitome of Huxley-cum-Darwin,—that's what our boys call her.

From The Golden Calf by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)