as in wandered
to move about from place to place aimlessly
theatergoers meandering around the lobby waiting for the play to start
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Recent Examples of meandered
Those who opted for online school meandered through the city.
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Aaron Heisen, Daily News, 15 Jan. 2026
This is also not the voice that was oblivious to what the newspapers and the magazines of the time said about her, or the letters in handwriting that meandered like tendrils on a vine.
—Literary Hub, 11 Dec. 2025
An officer then gets out of the vehicle, crouches down, and beckons to the dog, who had once again meandered to the center of the road.
—Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 14 Nov. 2025
Leah Page meandered through the trunk-or-treat area with her daughter, Sophia.
—Amy Stark Shireman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Oct. 2025
At one point, Queenie meandered over to the kennel and stood in front of Walt.
—Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
Occasionally a curious polar bear meandered near camp, which was always changing as the ice floe buckled and drifted across the Arctic Ocean.
—Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
But as always, the conversation meandered happily in all directions.
—Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 10 Sep. 2025
As the second half meandered until Ezri Konsa’s sending off, both sets of supporters were united in their frustrations.
—Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2025
Aaron Heisen, Daily News, 15 Jan. 2026
This is also not the voice that was oblivious to what the newspapers and the magazines of the time said about her, or the letters in handwriting that meandered like tendrils on a vine.
—Literary Hub, 11 Dec. 2025
An officer then gets out of the vehicle, crouches down, and beckons to the dog, who had once again meandered to the center of the road.
—Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 14 Nov. 2025
Leah Page meandered through the trunk-or-treat area with her daughter, Sophia.
—Amy Stark Shireman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Oct. 2025
At one point, Queenie meandered over to the kennel and stood in front of Walt.
—Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
Occasionally a curious polar bear meandered near camp, which was always changing as the ice floe buckled and drifted across the Arctic Ocean.
—Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
But as always, the conversation meandered happily in all directions.
—Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 10 Sep. 2025
As the second half meandered until Ezri Konsa’s sending off, both sets of supporters were united in their frustrations.
—Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for meandered
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Jacob Roggeveen, a lawyer turned explorer, had wandered about the Pacific with three ships and found nothing.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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Those who perished include 90-year-old Doreen Ellis, a Crown Heights resident with dementia who wandered out of her apartment into the frigid air Sunday night.—
Josephine Stratman,
New York Daily News,
27 Jan. 2026
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With their home campus inaccessible, students roamed to various athletic facilities throughout town for practice and games.—
Howard Blume,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Jan. 2026
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On a recent afternoon, the pair of mutes roamed the tiered backyard.—
Ryan Gillespie,
The Orlando Sentinel,
24 Jan. 2026
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The couple strolled past planter boxes filled with flowers and vegetables as the school’s attendance specialist Crismar Guerra De Segnini answered questions from them and the handful of other parents on the tour.—
Keri Heath,
Austin American Statesman,
27 Jan. 2026
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After the models’ finale, Nichanian strolled down the runway as an audience of hundreds of clients, celebrities and editors offered her a five-minute standing ovation.—
Rachel Tashjian,
CNN Money,
26 Jan. 2026
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The Haycrafts had drifted apart around this time, after one of their sons died in an accident, and Anna became vehemently religious.—
Christopher Tayler,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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But, after, many of the groups created to put it on fell into factional infighting or drifted apart.—
Charles Duhigg,
New Yorker,
26 Jan. 2026
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“Meandered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/meandered. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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