shopping (around)

present participle of shop (around)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for shopping (around)
Verb
  • Weather service meteorologist Frank Pereira said the system that produced the storms, including high winds and hail, was moving eastward Thursday, fueled by cool air from Canada clashing with warm, humid air from the South.
    CBS News, CBS News, 12 June 2026
  • Weather service meteorologist Frank Pereira said the system that produced the storms, including high winds and hail, was moving eastward Thursday, fueled by cool air from Canada clashing with warm, humid air from the South.
    Hallie Golden, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2026
Verb
  • Now might not seem the moment for Democrats to be quarrelling, but many of them believe that the only way to build the Party back up is to remake it.
    Amy Davidson Sorkin, New Yorker, 17 May 2026
  • The lack of money has, at times, led to quarrelling between the services - most notably pitting the navy against the army and the Royal Air Force.
    Ian King, CNBC, 22 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Champ is getting into the game for real with a minority investment in Rhoback that will put its mix of investment savvy and athlete wrangling to work.
    Evan Clark, Footwear News, 15 June 2026
  • An early-morning call about a water main break in a Davie neighborhood on Friday led to a police officer and a fire captain wrangling a 5-foot alligator that state officials had been trying to capture for the past two years.
    Angie DiMichele, Sun Sentinel, 12 June 2026
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“Shopping (around).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shopping%20%28around%29. Accessed 16 Jun. 2026.

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