mosey
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There are already plenty of places in the capital where a mosey around merely needs a mouse.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2023
We’ll got here first and then mosey on over to the actual farmers market.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2023
We wring our hands like maiden aunts as they mosey blithely into danger: What could possibly go wrong in this cobwebbed basement/cabin in the woods/polygamist doomsday cult?
From New York Times ● May 25, 2023
Don’t miss the looming Keechelus Lake Wildlife Overcrossing between milepost 61 and 62 — thousands of elk, hares, mule deer, porcupines and coyotes mosey over this animal-only bridge annually.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 22, 2023
“Thought I’d mosey on down to Alfred’s early,” she explained.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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Ringo Starr moseys up to the restaurant at the Sunset Marquis in a spotless white cowboy hat and matching white denim jacket.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2024
Tim, an African spurred tortoise, moseys near the rabbit hutch.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2023
She moseys, she circles, she lies in wait.
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2020
But whenever the season ends, tip your cap to Holtby as he moseys off the ice — and into the unknown.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 17, 2020
So Tukkey he putts 'em on an' moseys down ter de branch ter look at hisse'f in de water.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney
That afternoon, I tagged along with Kaylee Aleu, 19, and Chloe Wangensteen, 21, as they moseyed around a quad filled with students and alumni who had set up camp before the game.
From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2024
My husband and I moseyed down to the Market around happy hour on a Tuesday, hoping to get our names on a list and go have a drink nearby until whatever time dinner materialized.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
Neighbors excitedly waved and honked their horns as he moseyed alongside lowriders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2022
Whether the mystery brute registered my sweaty presence or not, it soon moseyed through my semi-primitive campsite and back into the woods.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2021
Cole moseyed along slowly, not catching up to Edwin until they reached the trees.
From "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen
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Their first crack at it, they were kind of moseying down that water.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2023
There is a good chance you know the difference between moseying and meandering.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2023
The delegation left without further discussion, moseying back to the helipad to join the pilot, who’d never left her seat.
From Slate ● Dec. 16, 2023
Instead of "moseying through" he was now trying to make every day "as good as it could possibly be".
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2023
You don’t think what it means until the time comes to say ta-ta to it all; sunny mornings, and starry nights, with the double trail of the Milky Way moseying across the sky.
From The Woman from Outside [on Swan River] by Footner, Hulbert
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