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mosey

[moh-zee] / ˈmoʊ zi /


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Cows may mosey into their barns for bedtime.

From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2024

Yes, we hate it, yes we love it, and yes, as is our habit, we let time mosey on by as we futz around over what to do.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2024

There are already plenty of places in the capital where a mosey around merely needs a mouse.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2023

The college football season brings out devoted Jackson State fans who watch away games on the bistro’s flat-screen TVs or mosey over from the stadium after home games.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 4, 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

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

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

He moseyed on up to the seventh row above the half-court stripe, pegging that as ideal vantage.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 2023

King hoisted herself to the top of the partition and hung on for dear life until the lion moseyed off.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2022

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

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

In a confidently moseying delivery, she talked about falling out of the public eye and coming out of the closet on Facebook, then defensively insisted that’s just where old people are.

From New York Times ● May 9, 2022

Video caught by OnScene.TV shows the cub scampering down the sidewalk, ambling across neighbors’ yards and moseying into business parking lots, unbothered by the sheriff’s car, which was following it closely.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2021

The fellows who knew about such things came moseying around grandfather's farm and thought they smelled oil.

From Battling the Clouds or, For a Comrade's Honor by Frank Cobb


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