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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
perambulate .
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Examples
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John Aubrey, the antiquary, who "perambulated" Surrey in
Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912
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In my Virginia hometown, people perambulated when they could not drive at a pace somewhere between a saunter and a stroll.
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As the crowd perambulated among the hellebores and hostas, enjoying the plentiful supplies of champagne and canapes and admiring the elegant garden furniture and sculpture on sale, musicians played.
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As I perambulated, I noticed a fellow mount a department store mountain bike in front of a restaurant and then ride away.
BSNYC Firday Fun Quiz! BikeSnobNYC 2009
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He responded with a litany of places been and people seen and red carpets perambulated, of yachts boarded and eminent names placed next to him at fancy dinners.
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He responded with a litany of places been and people seen and red carpets perambulated, of yachts boarded and eminent names placed next to him at fancy dinners.
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When I had perambulated the length and breadth of the classes, M. Pelet turned and said to me — “Would you object to taking the boys as they are, and testing their proficiency in English?”
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It was a grassy, briery, moist defile, affording some shelter to any person who had sought it; but the party perambulated it in vain, and ascended on the other side.
Wessex Tales 2006
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Our adventurer expected to see in Mr Jacobs a withered and filthy old being, similar in external appearance to those of his race who then perambulated the metropolis as dealers in cast-off clothing.
Ralph Rashleigh 2004
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And she perambulated around the outside of the house, investigating, looking to see if windows and shutters were secure and in order.
The Awakening 2000
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