perambulating
present participle ofperambulate
perambulate
verb[I]
old useuk/pəˈræm.bjə.leɪt/us/pəˈræm.bjə.leɪt/towalkabout forpleasure
Walking and walkers
- bring/callsomething/someoneto heelidiom
- cavalcade
- constitutional
- foot traffic
- hiker
- hiking
- hoof itidiom
- rambler
- retread
- shanks's pony
- sleepwalk
- sleepwalking
- somnambulate
- stretch
- tread
- walkable
- walkabout
- walkies
- walking
- walking pole
Examplesofperambulating
perambulating
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Recall involvesperambulating, mentally, through the familiar 'places' to discover the individual images deposited in them that, by their striking quality, remind of what is to be said.
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I may be allowed to protest against this system ofperambulatingpro-consuls.
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Theseperambulatingchairmen are absolutely useless in the business of settling policy.
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That expresses perfectly the pious resignation of aperambulatingmendicant.
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I am doubtful, certainly in peace-time, about having this system ofperambulatingproconsuls because you never quite know what the functions of such people are.
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If one can license a tramcar for this purpose, surely one can license one of theseperambulatingvans.
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It is said that it may be aperambulatingmachine, a machine taken from one small course to another.
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I was hoping the same process could be used to makeperambulatingon the ground safe as well.
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He described how one could follow a boundary, along streams and by orchards, and how it was always possible to find the line merely byperambulatinground the countryside.
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We have cruisers, but it is difficult to find what cruisers are for, although it may be that for flag display they are an expensive form ofperambulatingdiplomacy.
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Heres haporths, shouts theperambulatingconfectioner.
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- dispiriting
- dispiritingly
- displace
- displaced
- displaced employee
- displaced-employee
- displaced family
- displaced person
- displaced-person
- displaced worker
- displaced-worker
- displacement
- displacement activity
- displacement-activity
- nearby park
- nearby pond
- nearby restaurant
- nearby river
- nearby settlement
- nearby spring
- nearby star
- nearby stream
- nearby table
- nearby town
- nearby tree