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

He had never realized how much human misery could be concentrated into one room until that perambulatory trip.

From Traffic in Souls A Novel of Crime and Its Cure by Ball, Eustace Hale

She put her elbow on a couple of pickled gherkins that remained casually on the table after a perambulatory meal.

From The Belovéd Vagabond by Locke, William John

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

From Basil by Collins, Wilkie