Take, for instance, one of the most wretched classes of the community, the poor fellows who perambulate the streets as Sandwich Men. These are farmed out by certain firms.
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Perambulate
//pəɹˈæmbjʊˌleɪt//
Synonyms for "perambulate" (59 found)
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9 translations across 6 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- обикалям verb (roam, stroll)
- обхождам verb (roam, stroll)
German
1 entries- durchreisen verb (roam, stroll)
Irish
1 entries- máirseáil verb (roam, stroll)
Polish
1 entries- przechadzać się verb (roam, stroll)
Portuguese
3 entries- passear verb (roam, stroll)
- perambular verb (roam, stroll)
- vaguear verb (roam, stroll)
Russian
1 entries- бродить verb (roam, stroll)
Sample sentences
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They dragged themselves from the swamp singly, and in twos and threes, more dead than alive, mere perambulating skeletons, until at last there were thirty of us.
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The officials, in their gowns of grey, with a white St. Andrew’s cross on back and breast, and a white cloth carried before them on a staff, perambulated the city, adding the terror of man’s justice to the fear of God’s visitation.
Source: wiktionary
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