moon around/about

phrasal verb

mooned around/about; mooning around/about; moons around/about
British, informal
: to move around slowly because one is unhappy
I was feeling depressed and just mooned about all day.

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web It's expected to hit the moon around 7:26 a.m. ET at about 5,500 miles per hour (8,851 kilometers per hour), but the event won't be visible from Earth because the impact is expected to take place on the far side of the moon. Katie Hunt, CNN, 2 Mar. 2022 Despite taking place after dawn for a good portion of the U.S., those on the east coast should still be able to see Jupiter as its eclipsed by a thin crescent moon around 7:45 a.m. EST. Michael D'estries, Treehugger, 1 May 2023 China also aims to land its first crew on the moon around the end of the decade. Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2023 This test flight is NASA's first step toward returning astronauts to the moon around 2025. Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2022 The third mission would attempt to land astronauts on the moon around 2025, more than a half-century after NASA’s Apollo moonshots. Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2022 It’s expected to hit the moon around 7:26 a.m. ET at about 5,500 miles per hour (8,851 kilometers per hour), but the event won’t be visible from Earth because the impact is expected to take place on the far side of the moon. Katie Hunt, CNN, 4 Mar. 2022 Europa, another icy moon around Jupiter, has a briny ocean that occasionally spews into space too. Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 24 Nov. 2021 The orbits of planets or say, the moon around the Earth, are not a circle. Rick Green, courant.com, 19 Nov. 2021 See More

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“Moon around/about.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/moon%20around%2Fabout. Accessed 6 Jun. 2023.

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