perambulator

Example Sentences

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He’s in the Charles Mingus tradition, a thumping perambulator, sometimes playing the instrument almost like a guimbri.

From New York Times • May 18, 2018

She beckons me over to look at a 19th-century perambulator, its fittings designed to resemble coiling snakes, the creatures that appear on the Duke of Devonshire’s family crest.

From The Guardian • Mar. 22, 2018

If he ever winds up testifying, we will have to wheel him in in a perambulator, so young and helpless will he have become.

From Washington Post • Jul. 13, 2017

As a solitary perambulator, Moreau has a singular magnetism.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2016

She ran to the perambulator and rocked it gently, crooking her thin, twisted, old fingers at John and Barbara until they stopped crying and began to laugh.

From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers