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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

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

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

“Well, folks,” said Grandpa, taking aholt of her elbow, “I reckon we best mosey on home now. Hit’s been a long fancy day.”

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

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

A dad moseys over with his toddler and says he saw La Havas play her recent gig at the Barbican, and how brilliant he thought it was.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 12, 2020

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

Whether the mystery brute registered my sweaty presence or not, it soon moseyed through my semi-primitive campsite and back into the woods.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2021

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

I’d always liked movies and theaters, so one afternoon I moseyed up to this movie house on Seventh Avenue and asked for the manager.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride

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

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

He said, 'Those fellows are after you, and they're moseying around down south of here, and probably they'll get up here in the course of the winter.

From The Silent Places by Stewart Edward White


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