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mosey

[moh-zee] / ˈmoʊ zi /


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Through the diner’s large front-facing windows, we watched a cowboy mosey past on his horse, checking out the variety of vehicles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

Cows may mosey into their barns for bedtime.

From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 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

Well, young John thinks a while, and pretty soon he moseys over to a spring and gets a big, cold drink and washes his head, and feels better.

From Jim Waring of Sonora-Town Tang of Life by Henry Herbert Knibbs

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

They ambled halls, strolled stairs, marched in place, squatted, hopped or otherwise moseyed about in whatever way they found convenient, tolerable and not overly distracting or amusing to their co-workers.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2021

He patted his pocket, so we called Charlie off and moseyed back to school.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

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

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

Right now we'd better be moseying on; the sun's climbing, partner.'

From The Desert Valley by Jackson Gregory




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