tootle
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Most of the time, you will just tootle around town with it, doing really simple things.
From The Verge ● Dec. 19, 2018
As a native Chicagoan who has watched the Rams tootle around UC Irvine in their golf carts, I have to wonder what Dick Butkus would say if he saw them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2017
So were Baron and Barron — alter-egos used by the mogul to tootle his own horn in the third person.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 27, 2017
"We're happy to tootle along in a two-litre diesel in a Formula 1 race."
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2014
“Best garden pond in the village it'll be, Mr. Broadwas said, once my shrubbery's got a grip. Have a pleasant tootle round Tewkesbury, did we?”
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
The orchestra, meanwhile, tootled unrelated instrumental parts; lighting changed at random; and the backdrops, going up and down on squeaky pulleys, added inapt settings.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 19, 2018
I didn’t play on the A side, but I played bass on the B side while my uncle tootled along on harp.
From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2015
Not so long ago, Americans who tootled around foreign countries in athletic attire earned a tourist badge of dishonor.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 6, 2015
After dinner on a warmish weeknight—57 degrees in Ann Arbor—a junior picked up his trumpet and tootled a bit of Glenn Miller from his window, just to relax.
From Slate ● May 9, 2013
She tootled up and down the shoreline, kicking at the waves and exhausting herself with joy.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
Upstairs, Zella Powers, 85, worked on one of the library’s public computers, just reading the news, tootling around, one of a few dozen people a day who come to use the library’s internet.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 13, 2023
"They're more than happy for him to be tootling along behind them in his chair."
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2023
Angela Lansbury is a tweedy country eccentric in wartime England, tootling around on a bronchitic sidecar motorbike and receiving mysterious parcels from a professor in London.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2022
And what a renewal it was: roaring whales, bellowing elephants, tootling children and moaning freight trains.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 24, 2022
Otherwise all was as always: the music was tootling, the ladies were laughing, the children were going round and round....
From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli
