mooning
Example Sentences
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Bogotá’s unorthodox mayor, Antanas Mockus—who rose to fame after mooning student protesters and deployed mimes to control traffic—viewed the activity as a gambit “to achieve self-regulation in the behavior among citizens.”
From Slate • Dec. 22, 2024
Would there be a ShyBelligerent if he still were mooning around Compton?
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2024
To say that “a computer understands” is like saying that your car is losing its sense of humor or mooning over an old girlfriend.
From Washington Post • Apr. 24, 2023
Anduaga’s soigné style, and vibrant yet plangent timbre, made him an uncommonly sensitive Nemorino — more of a melancholy-prone Werther scribbling poeticisms in a notebook than a sunny country bumpkin mooning over his beloved.
From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2023
“As if it would take witchcraft,” she said with a sniff, “to get Solomon Porritt mooning round my cottage.”
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
