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
Following the attack, the wolf fled and meandered through the city until late that night, when it was located near Lake Binnenalster.
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Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 31 Mar. 2026
As the afternoon sun beat down, several passers-by from out of town meandered by Guthrie's one-story brick house in the Catalina Foothills.
—Helen Rummel, USA Today, 23 Feb. 2026
Several passersby from out of town meandered by Guthrie’s one-story brick house.
—Helen Rummel, AZCentral.com, 22 Feb. 2026
Those who opted for online school meandered through the city.
—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
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
Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 31 Mar. 2026
As the afternoon sun beat down, several passers-by from out of town meandered by Guthrie's one-story brick house in the Catalina Foothills.
—Helen Rummel, USA Today, 23 Feb. 2026
Several passersby from out of town meandered by Guthrie’s one-story brick house.
—Helen Rummel, AZCentral.com, 22 Feb. 2026
Those who opted for online school meandered through the city.
—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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for meandered
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Red-Bodied Dog Tick Has your idiotic dog wandered onto a bucolic patch of grass that hasn’t been freshly treated with toxins?—
Jay Ruttenberg,
New Yorker,
8 June 2026
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Baez’s sister described her brother as a free spirit who wandered up and down the East Coast, from Florida to his home state of Massachusetts, where his two children live with their mother.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
3 June 2026
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Conrad Weiser was a Pennsylvania German who had roamed the frontier for decades, learning the Indian languages and befriending Indian leaders, including some who encountered Washington in Ohio.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 May 2026
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The dinosaur roamed across what is now Montana and Wyoming, and across the western United States, which most likely looked like the Louisiana floodplain all those millions of years ago.—
Julia Gomez,
USA Today,
20 May 2026
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Liv announced, as Smith strolled onstage, a surprise that nobody saw coming.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
8 June 2026
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Along First Street, fashionable young couples and wealthy empty nesters strolled by sidewalk pergolas.—
Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
4 June 2026
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Topics of conversation drifted around at first like lazy clouds.—
Bill Addison,
Los Angeles Times,
4 June 2026
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Sand has amassed a formidable campaign fund, cultivated a moderate image, and emphasized his rural background in a state that has steadily drifted rightward over the last decade.—
Nik Popli,
Time,
3 June 2026
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