perambulation

Example Sentences

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The Sumava is home to an estimated population of 10-20 elk, and it is hoped Emil will join them, rather than continue his perambulations.

From BBC • Sep. 22, 2025

Will Self explains what he learns from perambulations in London, there’s Fran Lebowitz in New York, Helen Garner in Melbourne, “natural navigator” Tristan Gooley in Portsmouth, and writers on Delhi and Newcastle, Cairo and Wellington.

From The Guardian • Sep. 17, 2018

Given the right approach, Augustin’s dramatic perambulations may have retained the power to fascinate.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2017

Describing the poet on his perambulations around the city, Tempest fell into a cadenced performance that could easily be broken into verse, though it did not seem rehearsed:

From The New Yorker • May 10, 2016

The ceremony continued for some time, with more perambulations and exchanges of secret passwords and hand signs, more invocations and singing, until C.P. found himself at last standing before the large central altar.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson