mosey
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
At one point, just before he moseyed to the den to watch Sunday news shows, he looked at me and said, “Why so quiet, Sweet Pea? Something wrong?”
From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English
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
There is a good chance you know the difference between moseying and meandering.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 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
Passed Pryor moseying along down near the corner.
From The Crimson Sweater by Ralph Henry Barbour
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