peregrinate

Example Sentences

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Having those moments to pause and peregrinate keeps us nimble for the duration — and I can only imagine how salutary they are for the cast.

From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2017

He is too picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd, As it were too peregrinate, as I may call it.

From The Prairie by Cooper, James Fenimore

The old showman and his literary coadjutor were already tackling their horses to the wagon, with a design to peregrinate southwest along the seacoast.

From The Seven Vagabonds (From "Twice Told Tales") by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

I go there on the 10th to remain till May; but I am sorry to say I see little hope of my being able to peregrinate to far Provence—all benignant though your invitation be.

From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by James, Henry

He is too picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were; too peregrinate, as I may call it; he draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 13, November, 1858 by Various