peregrinate
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Regardless of how they get there, they seem to peregrinate in a fog, for which they can hardly be blamed: In Brighton Beach, questions are deeply frowned upon, then ignored.
From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2018
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
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 Henry James
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 Nathaniel Hawthorne
He is too picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd, and, as it were, too peregrinate, as I may call it.
From The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Delia Bacon
The movement has even peregrinated into popular music.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 29, 2015
But its particular pleasures remained; New Orleans musicians who traveled north introduced others to jazz, while nightlife peregrinated toward the French Quarter and, eventually, Bourbon Street.
From Washington Post
Peterson has peregrinated 75,000 miles, given 1,239 exhibitions, walked goo miles around tables making 92,000 fancy shots for his uniformed audiences.
From Time Magazine Archive
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I may well have promenaded, pedestrianized, peregrinated, ambulated, perambulated, circumambulated, hoofed, and locomoted ...
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She layed up to me like a pig to a rough post, and we peregrinated along for some distance until we were pretty nigh hum.
From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 by R. H. (Robert Henry) Newell
When next we meet them, Williams and Merlo are peregrinating through 1953 Italy.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2019
For last January peregrinating Director Mann set out for the East Indies, sponsored by the Smithsonian and the National Geographic Society.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Vox populi: too much peregrinating, 45%; okay, 36%; no opinion, 6%; none of their business, 13%.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Presently he was conscious of a footstep, so faint, so subtle, that it might have come from a peregrinating ghost.
From Tales of Trail and Town by Bret Harte
Sandy Graff did not strictly belong to the great peregrinating leisure class for whose benefit the Refuge had been more especially founded and built.
From Shapes that Haunt the Dusk by William Dean Howells
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