tootle
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Up the river we tootle, our pirate-garbed captain pointing out landmarks along the way.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 7, 2019
Most of the time, you will just tootle around town with it, doing really simple things.
From The Verge ● Dec. 19, 2018
As a native Chicagoan who has watched the Rams tootle around UC Irvine in their golf carts, I have to wonder what Dick Butkus would say if he saw them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2017
"We're happy to tootle along in a two-litre diesel in a Formula 1 race."
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2014
During the night, some of the locomotives began to tootle to one another, and then to move.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
Dash responded with the message “Yay!” and a winsome shimmy, then tootled off at one and a half miles an hour—maybe in search of someone’s job.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 19, 2018
I didn’t play on the A side, but I played bass on the B side while my uncle tootled along on harp.
From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2015
Not so long ago, Americans who tootled around foreign countries in athletic attire earned a tourist badge of dishonor.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 6, 2015
After dinner on a warmish weeknight—57 degrees in Ann Arbor—a junior picked up his trumpet and tootled a bit of Glenn Miller from his window, just to relax.
From Slate ● May 9, 2013
A man sat on the steps of the trading post and tootled a lively tune on a pakila, or panpipes.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
Upstairs, Zella Powers, 85, worked on one of the library’s public computers, just reading the news, tootling around, one of a few dozen people a day who come to use the library’s internet.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 13, 2023
"They're more than happy for him to be tootling along behind them in his chair."
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2023
Angela Lansbury is a tweedy country eccentric in wartime England, tootling around on a bronchitic sidecar motorbike and receiving mysterious parcels from a professor in London.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2022
And what a renewal it was: roaring whales, bellowing elephants, tootling children and moaning freight trains.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 24, 2022
They were made of wood, painted, going round and round to tootling music.
From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli
