pottering
Example Sentences
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He added: "And if I can volunteer for another… well, I won't do another 60 years, that's for sure. But David Attenborough is 100, so I could still be pottering around then."
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
Two years after we left her snooping around Moscow in “Homeland,” she has re-emerged in Victorian England, pottering about the coast in “The Essex Serpent” on Apple TV+.
From New York Times ● May 13, 2022
The path to the workshop takes “blistered hands, not dilettante pottering and observation.”
From Scientific American ● Aug. 19, 2020
Sometimes I spend 10 minutes pottering around; other times it’s four hours of intense, self-directed cartographical research missions.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2020
Then I left him pottering about in the library and went off to plead my case before Mother, to no avail.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
