pottering

Example Sentences

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Diane Jones was pottering around the house when she was sent a text message telling her to claim her £400 energy discount.

From BBC • Dec. 17, 2022

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

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

Then I left him pottering about in the library and went off to plead my case before Mother, to no avail.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly