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peregrinate

[per-i-gruh-neyt] / 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

The old showman and his literary coadjutor were already tackling their horses to the wagon, with a design to peregrinate southwest along the seacoast.

From The Seven Vagabonds (From "Twice Told Tales") by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The old showman and his literary coadjutor were already tackling their horses to the wagon with a design to peregrinate south-west along the sea-coast.

From Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

I sometimes go to Windsor, and the very next one I shall peregrinate over to Eton on the chance of a sight of his portrait.

From The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 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

Her small, white-shod feet continued to bear her onward, away from him, while his own dimmed shoes peregrinated in the opposite direction—William necessarily, yet with excruciating reluctance, accompanying them.

From Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William by Booth Tarkington

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

From Washington Post Feb. 14, 2019

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

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

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

In July 1892—i.e. about nine months after his ordination as deacon—he took part in a kind of peregrinating mission tour through part of South Cornwall.

From Letters to His Friends by Forbes Robinson




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