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
Don Carlos had so done; he was in Spain, it was true, but where he was at the moment the Cura was unable to say; his court was perambulatory.
From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) by John Augustus O'Shea
This was her sixth season, and it was rapidly becoming a case of real distress, and she was getting blue, oh, to a frightful extent—a perambulatory epitome of Huxley-cum-Darwin,—that's what our boys call her.
From The Golden Calf by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
In vain I strove to be registered among the 'hidden treasure' spirits, with the perambulatory privileges pertaining to the class.
From The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies by Israel Zangwill
