perambulatory

Example Sentences

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It’s a sprawling document—you have to get through 173 nonbinding perambulatory paragraphs before you even get to the regulation itself.

From Slate • May 8, 2017

“I always wish I were one of those perambulatory writers like Wallace Stevens.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2017

Carlotta, then, had followed her about like a perambulatory doll, upon which she had fitted all the finery she could lay her hands on.

From The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by Locke, William John

The meditation proved to be of the perambulatory sort, for she peeped into one room and then into the other, noiselessly appearing and retiring.

From Little Tora, The Swedish Schoolmistress and Other Stories by Baker, Sarah S. (Sarah Schoonmaker)

He had never realized how much human misery could be concentrated into one room until that perambulatory trip.

From Traffic in Souls A Novel of Crime and Its Cure by Ball, Eustace Hale