pottering
Example Sentences
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Two years after we left her snooping around Moscow in “Homeland,” she has re-emerged in Victorian England, pottering about the coast in “The Essex Serpent” on Apple TV+.
From New York Times • May 13, 2022
Littner, 72, said he had been "pottering along" near his home in north London when the accident occurred.
From BBC • Jul. 8, 2021
The path to the workshop takes “blistered hands, not dilettante pottering and observation.”
From Scientific American • Aug. 19, 2020
Sometimes I spend 10 minutes pottering around; other times it’s four hours of intense, self-directed cartographical research missions.
From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2020
"You've been pottering around for the last four thousand years just...gardening?"
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
