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mosey

[moh-zee] / ˈmoʊ zi /


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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 go 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

Most days in a Houston suburb, some of the best gymnasts in the nation mosey into their training facility for another 7 a.m. practice.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2023

“I reckon it wouldn’t. Now, you got any more questions, or can we mosey on about our business?”

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

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

In other words, what could have been a taut, gripping, emotional story ends up being diluted by a surrounding narrative that meanders and moseys to the point of irrelevance.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 12, 2021

She moseys, she circles, she lies in wait.

From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 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 Marshall Pinckney Wilder

All that is to say, when Black moseyed into a Bluesky hornet’s nest about the upcoming HBO “Harry Potter” series, I honestly think he underestimated how much he’d get stung.

From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2026

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

The pair moseyed the budget-friendly aisles, going from consumers to culture jammers in the process.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2023

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

In due course, they moseyed off into the nearby narrow roads and alleyways.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

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

Instead of ending his career Wednesday, White spent a full hour moseying through the media area.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2022

They've also been spotted hoovering up crops in their wake and moseying into people's houses - on one occasion, lining up in a courtyard to drink water, successfully turning on a tap with their trunks.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2021

When Farnham an' his crowd come moseying up yere, they ain't goin' ter have it all their own way, let me tell yer, pardner.

From Beth Norvell A Romance of the West by Randall Parrish


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