Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment.
Continue talking or writing in a desultory manner.
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Examples for "range "
1 The market has been range - bound since late last week over political worries.
2 Sometimes, a range of products comes along at exactly the right time.
3 Yet US democracy is within Mr Trump's striking range at all times.
4 This is the result of a range of factors, including climate change.
5 They range from utility, oil and manufacturing companies to independent power producers.
1 The election result has cast doubt on popular support for that project.
2 Events surrounding CervicalCheck continue to cast a shadow over the health service.
3 Animal prints: we think they're best left to cast members of Eastenders.
4 The withdrawal agreement must give legal effect to that ' cast iron' guarantee.
5 Clive Fugill said Covid-19 cast doubt on whether that legacy could continue.
1 A free inflight Wi-Fi service is set to roll out this year.
2 He may, indeed, require divine help to roll aside this particular stone.
3 He thought the state was going to roll over on this case.
4 However, the ministry said those roll numbers were what it would expect.
5 Ms Bennett said the shared equity scheme should roll out next year.
1 However, industry sources said that the deadline may drift into early July.
2 Get-togethers between friends often naturally drift toward other activities as interests change.
3 The intercontinental drift of consumer culture is far from a simple back-and-forth.
4 People are exposed through spray drift , residues on food and water contamination.
5 Type B change only by the more gradual process of antigenic drift .
1 Workers no longer tramp or cycle home but drive warm, smart cars.
2 Presently the heavy tramp of the patrol was heard in the street.
3 The General rose, and once more his military tramp shook the gallery.
4 At this instant the tramp of horses was heard in the courtyard.
5 He heard the tramp of a million feet in the great cities.
1 Go out on the seas; climb the mountains; wander through the valleys.
2 Left to wander its own way, it tends to lead into silliness.
3 Small animals wander around the camp, while larger ones can be heard.
4 He merely meant to wander the halls and perhaps clear his mind.
5 He had no reason to wander ; perhaps that was the reason why.
1 The swan was injured following the recent oil spillage in Bray Harbour.
2 The question is, where would the swan go on the knight's journey?'
3 The swan feathers were still in her box; I had recently looked.
4 His prize was just dancing on the water, light as a swan .
5 The swan ship that delivered Slayer should serve my needs well enough.
1 Dublin Corporation's new regulations to control stray horses came into effect yesterday.
2 He included the lines, Among your earthiest words the angels stray .
3 He was offering to forget the stray , let him come or go.
4 Record how long the chant was able to fend off stray thoughts.
5 There are hundreds of stray cats among the holy sites in Jerusalem.
1 Sable used to roam the Limpopo province in large numbers, years ago.
2 That is easy to understand - learning to roam productively takes time.
3 It's a great fear removed they no longer roam outside our gates.
4 Certainly Selena didn't roam the house taking inventory of her various knickknacks.
5 Ptolemy liked to stare out there and let his thoughts roam free.
1 I have a vagabond streak in my blood and it's in evidence.
2 Beverly laughed with keen enjoyment over the discomfiture of the shame-faced vagabond .
3 He stuck his hands in his pockets, and felt vagabond - like and reckless.
4 You indulge in a gesture of annoyance, and call me a vagabond .
5 Every kind of restraint was naturally intolerable to such a vagabond nature.
1 Winning back to paths of virtue all who now in error rove .
2 He would rove the fields while the rest were working in them.
3 In Westphalia the Hessians and Swedes rove about, rendering the roads unsafe.
4 You rove where you will, deferring to no authority but your own.
5 We'll rove together, for we are of them that have no homes.
An aimless amble on a winding course.
1 Is that about right? When there was no response, George rambled on.
2 He kicked at it and sunk under it as his talk rambled .
3 His words rambled to their goal with the effect of happy accident.
4 For two hours he rambled about the great north-western suburb of London.
5 While Mrs. Mallow rambled on in this diffusive manner, Cuthbert was thinking.
6 After the day's work he rambled in a street of large shops.
7 And so he rambled about, and could do and think of nothing.
8 Instead, this inveterate attention-seeker rambled for over 20 minutes through three songs.
9 The horses rambled away last night, and were not collected till late.
10 She rambled for hours, seeking rather than shunning the most dangerous paths.
11 The latter was continually speaking, though Owen thought that he occasionally rambled .
12 But on this occasion he took it silently, and Arthur rambled on.
13 He rambled on until Betty came down with plates and other things.
14 The patient rambled a good deal, but quite incoherently, and knew nobody.
15 The actor, 69, rambled about the children's game tag and boat rudders.
16 His heart was full of her as he rambled down the beech.
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