perambulate

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

From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2019

Cleese’s habitual sardonicism notwithstanding, it’s a gentle sort of farce, tenderly played and set mostly to the speed at which the elder cast members perambulate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 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

In one of the cable tramway cars which, at a reverential pace, perambulate the city of Edinburgh, two citizens conversed.

From The Prodigal Father by Clouston, J. Storer (Joseph Storer)

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

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

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

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 arranged his best pictures in the most visible situations, cast those he thought less of into corners, and perambulated his splendid rooms, looking at himself each minute in the mirrors.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 by Various

The route: Start your day by perambulating lazily around the historic Dory Fleet Market, checking out the crab and seafood offerings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024

"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

Stalked by Catherine’s perambulating ghost, and infused with live music by Ian Ross that feels somehow like earth and air, this is a show with a gloriously untamed spirit.

From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 2022

Streets of Philadelphia won Bruce Springsteen an Oscar, and Demme shot the accompanying music video in which a perambulating Springsteen does not lip-synch.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 16, 2019

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