pottering
Example Sentences
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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
Littner, 72, said he had been "pottering along" near his home in north London when the accident occurred.
From BBC • Jul. 8, 2021
He was pottering around at home in New Zealand when he suddenly found himself lying on the floor.
From The Guardian • Nov. 5, 2020
The path to the workshop takes “blistered hands, not dilettante pottering and observation.”
From Scientific American • Aug. 19, 2020
“I’m starving to death,” he said, retying the knot of his bathrobe and pottering over to the refrigerator.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
