mill around

Example Sentences

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The national fire service has posted images on X of workers at the site as an agitated crowd mill around the scene.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

In the middle are two young society beauties wearing the new clingy fashions with uncaricatured style, but amongst the mixed-sex groups that mill around them are gratuitously padded older women.

From Slate • Jul. 21, 2025

In the video, bar patrons calmly mill around a parking lot filled with motorcycles.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2023

Younger attendees mill around, decked out in high fashion streetwear, while the tech journalists in the crowd dress to delicately toe the line between looking professional and avoiding overheating in the sun.

From The Verge • Jul. 14, 2022

Exclusion Authority bureaucrats mill around on their phones amid a heavy presence of armed Exclusion Guards.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed