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

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

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

“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