ambulation

Example Sentences

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Years ago Mr. Valderrama began calling himself Papillon — the French word for butterfly — in reference to his constant ambulations and ability to inspire wonder.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2014

A line of verse is a march of poetic feet, the trudge of iambs and shuffle of dactyls, the ambulations of language.

From Time Magazine Archive

But it was a longish story, and lasted through half a dozen of their forward and backward ambulations.

From My Friend Prospero by Harland, Henry

Our writers are more and more in love with French methods—with the delicate clearness of short phrases in which every word tells; with the rejection of all intellectual ambulations round about a subject.

From Scenes of Clerical Life by Eliot, George