cruised

verb

past tense of cruise
1
as in wandered
to move about from place to place aimlessly the girls happily cruised around the mall for hours

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2
as in flowed
to move or proceed smoothly and readily she's been cruising through her daily physical therapy with remarkable ease

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3
as in sailed
to travel on water in a vessel cruised to the Bahamas in their yacht

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Recent Examples of cruised In his first bout at 170 pounds, Makhachev cruised to a decision win over Jack Della Maddalena at UFC 322 in November 2025, easily wresting the UFC welterweight crown from Della Maddalena. — Trent Reinsmith, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026 Zebby Matthews cruised through the first four frames, allowing just one run. — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 4 July 2026 The Royals had 15,014 fans at Kauffman Stadium on Tuesday night as the Rays cruised to a 10-4 victory. — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 1 July 2026 Chelsea went back to Porto for the final, facing a Manchester City side who had cruised to the Premier League title that season, finishing eight points clear. — Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 1 July 2026 Wrobleski had a career-high 11 strikeouts in seven innings as the Dodgers cruised to a 9-3 victory. — Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026 But New York struggled to get stops on the other end as Golden State cruised to another win. — Nathan Canilao, Mercury News, 29 June 2026 After a sluggish first half to start their opener against Senegal, France turned on the gas and has cruised ever since. — Becky Sullivan, NPR, 28 June 2026 The Yankees’ blossoming prospect, pitching for the RailRiders and against Worcester at Triple-A, cruised for six scoreless innings in his penultimate minor league start. — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 26 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cruised
  1. wandered
  2. flowed
  3. sailed
  4. roamed
  5. glided
  6. strolled
  7. drifted
  8. swept
Verb
  • But on a shady patch under a sprawling river birch, ten teens who had wandered over from Stuyvesant High School assemble themselves into breakout groups to discuss Zohran Mamdani’s recently released housing proposal.
    — Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 13 July 2026
  • The three wandered downtown Culver City, seemingly unsure of where to go.
    — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2026
Definition of wandered
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  • This let the team observe how water flowed inside, outside, and through the device.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 13 July 2026
  • The lace-up breastplate, which resembled a Greek sculpture, flowed into a white and ombré grey beaded bottom.
    — Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 12 July 2026
Definition of flowed
Verb
  • Twice England’s post was struck but when Enzo Fernández’s sublime strike sailed past Jordan Pickford in the 85th minute, there only ever felt like one winner.
    — Aleks Klosok, CNN Money, 15 July 2026
  • Mbappé took his last shot in the game’s waning moments, to raucous cheers from the mostly Spanish crowd as the ball sailed over the goalpost.
    — Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 July 2026
Definition of sailed
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  • Coyotes, the true American canine, have roamed this continent for more than 2 million years and were venerated by many of those same Indigenous peoples who once made camp in Big Sky.
    — Jesse Ashlock, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 July 2026
  • The plant-eating giant, named Uragasaurus kalasinensis, is believed to have roamed what is now northeast Thailand around 130 million years ago.
    — Kayla Hayempour, NBC news, 13 July 2026
Definition of roamed
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  • An endless procession of black SUVs, Escalades, luxury coaches, polished muscle cars and Uber Blacks glided onto West 31st Street.
    — Bryan West, USA Today, 7 July 2026
  • Throughout his rise to become the voice of Britain’s populist hard-right, architect of Brexit and chief anti-immigrant activist, any accusations of wrongdoing have largely glided off him.
    — Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 5 July 2026
Definition of glided
Verb
  • Cubans strolled along el Paseo del Prado promenade in the inky night, desperate to escape the stifling heat of their homes.
    — Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, USA Today, 6 July 2026
  • More recently, Amal Clooney strolled through the South of France hand-in-hand with husband George in a black micro-mini with shorts peeking out underneath.
    — Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 4 July 2026
Definition of strolled
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  • In the days before his Ford Bronco drifted into the path of an oncoming semi-truck, Matt Miller was settling debts.
    — Alex Andrejev, New York Times, 17 July 2026
  • Microsoft tied itself tightly to OpenAI through a series of investments, but the two companies drifted and became competing with each other after the abrupt 2023 ousting and reinstatement of OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, with little notice to Nadella.
    — Jordan Novet, CNBC, 16 July 2026
Definition of drifted
Verb
  • The Lake County Sheriff's Office conducted door-to-door notifications and swept through different trails throughout the evacuation zone.
    — Alexandra Fine, ABC News, 14 July 2026
  • The fever for the 2026 FIFA World Cup tournament, the largest, most expansive in the competition’s 96-year history, has swept North America.
    — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 14 July 2026
Definition of swept

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