tootle

Example Sentences

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And he gamely rents a golf cart and tootles around the Villages, the enormous senior housing community in the middle of Florida that’s beginning to fill up with you-know-whoomers.

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2023

He flips the book open on a sweetly wonky green Mini, in which Dragman tootles around when he is being August.

From The Guardian • Mar. 14, 2020

He beats on his big tin drum and tootles his pipes and works the yokels, squeezing them for cash.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 18, 2019

In one ingeniously staged car chase, a football-helmet-shaped mini-vehicle pursues a full-size car past a campus building emblazoned with the words “Benjamin Hill Film Studies Center,” as a Benny Hill–esque theme tootles in the background.

From Slate • Jun. 11, 2014

There were tootles and grumbles and rumbles and sighs and gobbles and giggles and even a woof.

From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli