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

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

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)

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