meandering

Example Sentences

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Whether Tuesday’s rebound marks the entrance to that path, or another meandering trail of foggy wartime reactions, remains to be seen.

From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026

Today, after a meandering back and forth about the character, she admits, “I suppose I still need to gather my own point of view on her.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2026

Instead it sent him on empty assignments, like meandering the vacuous desert sprawl.

From Slate • Feb. 2, 2026

“The Housemaid” stumbles, and it doesn’t help that Sweeney spends much of the film meandering throughout its narrative like a piece of driftwood that keeps washing back onto the shore.

From Salon • Jan. 31, 2026

He was staggered now to think of his own presumption in accepting his friends’ offers to accompany him on this meandering, pointless journey.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling