Sentence examples for wander idly from inspiring English sources

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This week sees the first Chinese state visit to the UK since 2005, with President Xi Jinping set to wander idly around the country like a wealthy gangster at a car dealership while the British ruling class springs into action to genuflect before him.

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Milligan crafted a much longer obituary, which included satirical accounts of his World War II service — "North Africa, promoted in the field (they wouldn't let me indoors)" — and musical virtuosity — "fingers wandered idly over the ivory keys... (bang, there goes another elephant)." In fact, he was an accomplished musician and was badly wounded in the war.

Having stood once again to eyeball the room, the singer came to a dead halt on the line "Just the thought of you makes me stop -", then wandered idly off to the piano again and picked up with "- before I begin", just when everybody had concluded he was going to start something different.

Inside: This final segment opens with shots of Donovan showering, toweling off and wandering idly around his room, intercut with shots of African-American telephone repairman Tommy Moore checking various poles and lines outside, Donovan spots Moore from his balcony.

And my fingers wander'd idly, Over the noisy keys.

A girl who had spent the past five hours painting a backdrop for a Red Grooms-inspired kinetic sculpture wandered in, idly picking at a rose that had been fashioned from a strip of bacon.

This bar, kitchen, music venue and hipster hotspot (when I was in there, a bloke was wandering about idly strumming a ukulele), serves several real ales and US craft beers from the likes of Anchor Steam and Flying Dog.

But to idly wander the byways of some nondescript coastal eternity for ever doesn't quite do it for me.

Benjamin's arcades and their related concepts — especially that of the flâneur, the nineteenth-century gadabout who wandered the streets of Paris — have been linked to the Internet before, with writers saying that in the early days of the Web one could idly wander, flâneur-like, through virtual spaces.

So I idly wander to Channel 5 and "The Situation", who is camper than Clary and sprayed so orange he sometimes resembles the devil, is comforting Danica who is outraged that people could believe that asking people to buy her things with the unsaid but implicated (and unfulfilled) promise of sex would make her a hooker.

Benjamin's arcades and their related concepts especially that of the flâneur, the nineteenth-century gadabout who wandered the streets of Paris have been linked to the Internet before, with writers saying that in the early days of the Web one could idly wander, flâneur-like, through virtual spaces.

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