perambulatory
Example Sentences
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It’s a sprawling document—you have to get through 173 nonbinding perambulatory paragraphs before you even get to the regulation itself.
From Slate ● May 8, 2017
“I always wish I were one of those perambulatory writers like Wallace Stevens.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2017
An omnibus has always appeared to me, to be a perambulatory exhibition-room of the eccentricities of human nature.
From Basil by Wilkie Collins
He had never realized how much human misery could be concentrated into one room until that perambulatory trip.
From Traffic in Souls A Novel of Crime and Its Cure by Eustace Hale Ball
The meditation proved to be of the perambulatory sort, for she peeped into one room and then into the other, noiselessly appearing and retiring.
From Little Tora, The Swedish Schoolmistress and Other Stories by Sarah S. (Sarah Schoonmaker) Baker
