woolgathering
Example Sentences
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But such are the longueurs of this would-be slam-bang blockbuster directed by Robert Schwentke, that it sure does inspire woolgathering.
From New York Times • Jul. 22, 2021
I listened to their woolgathering for a while, and then some artillery rumbled in the distance.
From New York Times • Oct. 29, 2014
Most people spend between 30 and 47 percent of their waking hours spacing out, drifting off, lost in thought, woolgathering, in a brown study or building castles in the air.
From Scientific American • Aug. 22, 2014
Even so, plenty of them are parading around in costumes that instantly identify them as devotees of what is known in woolgathering circles as "sheep chic": sheepskin vests and coats, shepherds' jackets and lambskin caps.
From Time Magazine Archive
The train lurched over a patch of rough tracks, jarring me out of my woolgathering.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
