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peregrinate

[per-i-gruh-nayt] / ˈpɛr ɪ grəˌneɪt /




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Regardless of how they get there, they seem to peregrinate in a fog, for which they can hardly be blamed: In Brighton Beach, questions are deeply frowned upon, then ignored.

From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2018

Having those moments to pause and peregrinate keeps us nimble for the duration — and I can only imagine how salutary they are for the cast.

From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2017

He is too picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd, As it were too peregrinate, as I may call it.

From The Prairie by James Fenimore Cooper

He is too picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were, too peregrinate, as I may call it.

From Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare

But I seem to travel, to peregrinate, less and less—and I am reduced to living on my past accumulations.

From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by Henry James

The movement has even peregrinated into popular music.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 29, 2015

But its particular pleasures remained; New Orleans musicians who traveled north introduced others to jazz, while nightlife peregrinated toward the French Quarter and, eventually, Bourbon Street.

From Washington Post

Peterson has peregrinated 75,000 miles, given 1,239 exhibitions, walked goo miles around tables making 92,000 fancy shots for his uniformed audiences.

From Time Magazine Archive

I may well have promenaded, pedestrianized, peregrinated, ambulated, perambulated, circumambulated, hoofed, and locomoted ...

From Time Magazine Archive

She layed up to me like a pig to a rough post, and we peregrinated along for some distance until we were pretty nigh hum.

From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 by R. H. (Robert Henry) Newell

When next we meet them, Williams and Merlo are peregrinating through 1953 Italy.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2019

Vox populi: too much peregrinating, 45%; okay, 36%; no opinion, 6%; none of their business, 13%.

From Time Magazine Archive

For last January peregrinating Director Mann set out for the East Indies, sponsored by the Smithsonian and the National Geographic Society.

From Time Magazine Archive

"If that peregrinating devil had not left his country this would not have happened," said Sanders irritably; "he must come back and help me find the lost one."

From Bones Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country by Edgar Wallace

He eyed her wonderingly, but she was looking very innocently at the peregrinating chipmunk.

From Garrison's Finish : a romance of the race course by W. B. M. (William Blair Morton) Ferguson


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