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
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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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
Midnight Cowboy moseys into UK cinemas again next month on the occasion of its 50th anniversary, and with it comes another opportunity to ask whether this is a film about homophobia or a homophobic film.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 25, 2019
Ho, by my sowl, it shows what moseys they is to think that—what's this you call it?—low-lov-loaf, or whatsomever the devil it is, has to do wid makin' a young couple man and wife.
From Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton
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 450-pound porker wandered from his pen last week then moseyed on down the road, where he was caught hamming it up on the Molgaard family’s security camera.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2024
The pair moseyed the budget-friendly aisles, going from consumers to culture jammers in the process.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2023
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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Quite a few readers mentioned what I’ll call the Free Pass advantage. of moseying along the home stretch of life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2024
Their first crack at it, they were kind of moseying down that water.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 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
Sheng Wang, who shares a laid-back drawl, moseying delivery and gift for ingenious premise, has learned the right lessons from him while mapping out his own style.
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2022
Well, things went as smooth and easy as bob-sledding until it came time for Loys to be moseying back to college again.
From Red Saunders His Adventures West & East by Henry Wallace Phillips
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