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

The meditation proved to be of the perambulatory sort, for she peeped into one room and then into the other, noiselessly appearing and retiring.

From Little Tora, The Swedish Schoolmistress and Other Stories by Baker, Sarah S. (Sarah Schoonmaker)

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 Zangwill, Israel

His young friend was not in the humor for hesitation, and, distrusting his own perambulatory powers, gave himself up, without reserve, to Glover's guidance.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 by Various