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perambulate

[per-am-byuh-layt] / pərˈæm bjəˌleɪt /
VERB
walk about
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG


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There we perambulate amongst different scenery and mobile-order food — masked, socially distant, seeking some watered-down sense of normalcy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2021

Dear Jane Austen fans: Run, don’t perambulate, to see “Lovers’ Vows.”

From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2019

There’s an orchard of fruit trees and emus perambulate right out your back door.

From New York Times ● Nov. 20, 2017

I follow Nietzsche’s dictum that “only ideas won by walking have any value” and need to perambulate to really get my mind working.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 18, 2017

After a couple of hours of feverish dozing, I began to understand what had driven Great-Uncle McCarthy to perambulate the house by night.

From Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Martin Ross

They in turn are part of a broader florescence of nature-writing in Britain led by Robert Macfarlane, whose book, “The Old Ways”, perambulates around the country’s ancient byways.

From Economist ● Jul. 5, 2018

Volume changes into line, as our eye perambulates.

From Time Magazine Archive

After another crack on the noggin, Smothers perambulates into the '40s.

From Time Magazine Archive

And as the plot perambulates through three generations, the Kleenex-crumpling goes on and on for the better part of three hours.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sand′wich-man, a man who perambulates the streets between two advertising boards.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

The first edition of the Sherlock Holmes' adventure Hound Of The Baskervilles is signed with the comment: "I perambulated Dartmoor before I wrote this book," a reference to the book's setting.

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2023

In 1884, he perambulated more than 3,000 miles from Ohio to L.A., writing newspaper dispatches along the way and becoming a sympathetic ethnographer of Native American culture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2022

Everywhere barekneed youngsters in khaki perambulated through the streets with cameras and autograph books.

From Time Magazine Archive

I may well have promenaded, pedestrianized, peregrinated, ambulated, perambulated, circumambulated, hoofed, and locomoted ...

From Time Magazine Archive

He got out of bed and perambulated the room for some minutes.

From Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois by Elmer W. Cavins

Scaling Southern California’s tallest peaks provides a purer rush than perambulating its most famous streets, but the streets stick with you.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2023

"It was then reported, that a mad woman was in the habit of disturbing the neighbours, by perambulating the church-yard and other walks, in strange and uncouth dresses," the magazine article added.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2022

The Bronx Zoo reopened last July, with timed tickets and reduced capacity, so, for a time, you could commune in relative privacy with rhinos and silverback gorillas, as though perambulating your own private nature preserve.

From New York Times ● Jul. 2, 2021

There's the perfection of the rose garden, the tranquillity of the lily-clad boating lake and the perambulating white clouds of the sheep in the fields.

From The Guardian ● May 17, 2012

The halls—usually full of residents slowly perambulating from one area to the other or just sitting around chatting—were completely empty.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman




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