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 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
Fortunately, with your situation, I can just mosey on down and pick the next problem in line.
From Washington Post ● May 30, 2022
Had they just heard about auditions this morning and decided to mosey on by?
From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English
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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
No,you are fine’turns on his heels and moseys to the monitor.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 26, 2015
The doctor, he nods to Sam, and Sam moseys along toward the church.
From Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis
Over the three days, people moseyed by the pop-up near Diplo’s Honky Tonk, sometimes lining up to wait their turn to take a photo in front of the sign.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2026
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
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
I moseyed out front and was cutting them down when he furiously pedaled by on his new giant adult-size tricycle that towed a little red wagon full of what looked like shoe boxes.
From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos
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Their first crack at it, they were kind of moseying down that water.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 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
Its new version includes the title characters as teenagers, but also a few episodes depicting them in middle age, and they all hit comic notes with moseying cadences you can’t find elsewhere.
From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2022
Passed Pryor moseying along down near the corner.
From The Crimson Sweater by Ralph Henry Barbour
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