Sentence examples for potters around from inspiring English sources

"If Miguel plays like he can and just potters around, he'll start thinking, 'I'm the one that could pull it off'," Lyle said.

But, although Depardieu dutifully potters around with a stick, there is something about his rugby-player physique that makes it difficult to accept him as James's desensualised hero; I kept expecting him to grapple with Ardant on the chaise-longue rather than tentatively kiss her on the neck.

Unfolding over the course of a single warm July day in London in 1985, the book follows a young Indian man, Ananda, in his early 20s, as he wakes up in his rented room in Warren Street, potters around, attends a tutorial – he is desultorily reading for a BA in English Literature – in UCL at midday, then goes to see his uncle, Rangamama, in the older man's basement bedsit in Belsize Park.

He potters around the house and says hello to them all, and that's rather special.

SOMEWHERE deep at sea, a 150-metre submarine potters around with a cargo of 16 nuclear missiles.

"Bobs Worth, he potters around the place and does his own thing, he would never tell you [about his ability].

I like staying in my house, pottering around and maybe cooking or just laying around reading.

Wading birds, such as redshank, shelduck, and oystercatcher, are often to be seen pottering around by the waterside at Batson.

I like to start cooking early that morning and potter around, enjoying the steamy kitchen and the smells of chowder and pumpkins roasting.

The allotment holders have an association and a shop and the few people around greet each other warmly as they potter around in the spring sunshine.

They potter around, duetting like cautious dancers as they pass one another on their single-lane pathways in the deep snow.