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Example sentences for "perambulating"

Lexicographically close words:
peracta; peraduenture; peradventure; perambulate; perambulated; perambulation; perambulations; perambulator; perambulators; peraps
  1. Scarcely can I call him a perambulating skeleton, because he is too weak to walk.

  2. Next, after this perambulating skeleton, came the weirdest creature I have ever beheld.

  3. It's their glands you want; the brutes themselves, as far as you're concerned, are merely perambulating depositories for the Elixir of Life.

  4. It also includes perambulating the shrines of departed saints.

  5. After perambulating the principal thoroughfares, the people bring the standard back to its own 'Áshúr Khána.

  6. This perambulating dinner was a delicious sight, especially for people whose appetites had been singularly sharpened by the fresh air and the emotions produced by the fantasia.

  7. Towards evening I heard her footsteps perambulating the long passage, and softly turned the key in the lock without Gladys noticing the movement.

  8. I had never before seen callers on their first visit perambulating the room like polar bears, or throwing out curious feelers everywhere.

  9. In an octagon chamber, the small windows of which, resembling port-holes, looked out upon the Campagna, Basil was fretfully perambulating as Tristan entered.

  10. Alberic had risen and, seemingly unconscious of the presences in his chamber, was perambulating its narrow confines until, of a sudden, he stopped directly before Tristan.

  11. Being the perambulating plague-spot I am, I was not taking any risks.

  12. To Bailey, his strong-minded relative was a perpetual menace, a sort of perambulating yellow peril, and the fact that she often alluded to him as a worm consolidated his distaste for her.

  13. It was the greatest fault he committed in his whole career of perambulating bookseller, and fatal, in a sense, to his future prospects.

  14. The project of becoming a perambulating bookseller, hawker of his own poetical ware, came upon Clare in a startling manner.

  15. In the far distance were disappearing two huge balls of colour, orange and yellow, for all the world like perambulating poppies of cyclopean breed.

  16. In the fall, a perambulating skeleton, he came back over the Pass in a blizzard, with a rag of shirt, tattered overalls, and a handful of raw flour.

  17. Such an observer, however, on looking but a little more intently, will see the higher vertebrata as perambulating vegetables planted upside down.

  18. Spectres, likewise, are these saintly caricatures of humanity, perambulating metaphysics, the application in corpore vili of Oriental fakirism.

  19. He says that perambulating it hand in hand with another person, the two are sure to remain friends for life.

  20. Unaware of this idiosyncrasy, I used to carry a stick on my way through the streets into the surroundings, but left it at home on learning that I was regarded as a kind of perambulating earthquake.

  21. The Perambulating Showcase The newspaper is a huge shop window, carried about the city and delivered daily into hundreds of thousands of homes, to be examined at the leisure of the reader.

  22. But if the western woman walks about (as it were) trailing the curtains of the harem with her, it is quite certain that the woven mansion is meant for a perambulating palace, not for a perambulating prison.

  23. The following is one of their bills for perambulating the parish.

  24. The perambulating party generally wound up the day at the Globe, where they dined.

  25. He had to be wheeled from Committee Room to Committee Room in a perambulating chair, and was allowed to remain seated when addressing Committees.

  26. There was another scribe of quite an elegant sort: a perambulating tailor's dummy; a young man, well under thirty.

  27. Panamanian girls gaudily dressed and suggesting to the nostrils perambulating drug-stores shuttle back and forth with their perfumed dandies.

  28. Certain it is that the perambulating pie business in London fell very much into disrepute and contempt for several years before the abolition of the corn-laws and the advent of free trade.

  29. Then she set out on her day's work, crossing the river, and perambulating the Latin Quarter from the Rue Saint Jacques to the Rue Dauphine, and even to the Luxembourg.

  30. One of the antique dames who cook sausages in the shadow of the cafés brought us a plate each--funny little hard things--and we bought cakes and nougat from perambulating Peter Piemen.

  31. Whether promenading the shady walks of a wood or perambulating the dusty streets of the city, Leixner constantly thinks about the works he has in hand.

  32. She invents dialogues most easily when she is perambulating the room.

  33. He has a habit of perambulating the room when engaged in meditation about a new book, and he writes with remarkable rapidity.

  34. This was the favorite amusement; and after breakfast, on a morning ten days after Joan and Ashe had formed their compact, the terraces were full of perambulating couples.

  35. She proceeded, gazing down the while at the perambulating George, to give it thought.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "perambulating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ambulatory; going; itinerant; journeying; locomotive; moving; passing; pedestrian; peripatetic; progressing; strolling; touring; traveling; walking