How To Use Aimlessly In A Sentence
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Ross drove aimlessly through the outer suburbs, sharing the wide, wet road with the occasional noctambulant alley cat, a carload of cheering carousers, and electric mini-van delivering milk.
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Outside in the street student protest marches wander aimlessly by.
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Being able to wander around aimlessly is the best way to see things that you'd normally never see, new bands.
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The captain and his crew were left drifting aimlessly on the tiny raft after their boat, the Gullborg, exploded south of Shetland almost 32 years ago.
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Everyone who's normal should flop around their homes aimlessly without a stitch of clothing on at least once a month.
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She is paging through a magazine aimlessly.
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But he quickly went back into his shell, meandering around aimlessly in midfield.
The Sun
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You are trapesing aimlessly through the the already too crowded streets.
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Despite his tendency to waffle on aimlessly, he does on occasion write things that are worth reading…
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Battles occur without screen transitions, thank goodness, and enemies are always visible, wandering MMO-like (aka 'aimlessly') in their invisible stables.
PCWorld
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Tiny rivers of blood trickled aimlessly down his hand.
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His magnificent grey velvet suit seemed to be floating aimlessly in a raging sea, as if petrified in the expectation of waking.
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Austin is also a fine place to eat Tex-Mex, take in live music, shoot pool in a bar, visit the South Austin Popular Culture Center, or if you're really feeling indie, loiter aimlessly in a huge, soulless out-of-town shopping mall.
Film-inspired holidays: The Indie Flick
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When uncle Billy, in one of his characteristic empty-headed gestures, accidentally lost his score, the one that would redeem him from undeserved obscurity, something broke in him and he ran screaming out into the streets, meandering aimlessly, meaningless sounds burbling from his lips until he wound up here, on the bridge, teetering over the edge on the verge of a long, life-crushing fall into the dark waters below.
The envelopes
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She spied a lone figure staggering aimlessly across a recently ploughed field just north of the farmhouse.
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We drove into the city and cruised around aimlessly for an hour or so.
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Again he paced down the narrow gray corridor, aimlessly and planlessly, for what seemed miles and miles.
The Moon of Skulls
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Perhaps she hopes to halve the processing time it currently takes to sift through the various minerals she must analyze, or perhaps she needs a younger version to 'aimlessly' crawl toward that Army weapons depot, blinking her 'eyes' in rapid succession at key strategic weak spots without arousing suspicion.
Gawker
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But it was equally unpleasant to drift aimlessly through the blackness of space, all the while abiding either the fortuity of happening upon errant matter or the slow, foreordained approach of death.
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One wept, face on her knees; the other two stared haggardly at nothing, one of them plucking aimlessly at her skirt.
A Crown of Swords
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Nancy wander for hour aimlessly along the intertwining road and footpath.
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Sadly, most soccer sims just involve hoofing it up the pitch and loads of chasing aimlessly after the ball.
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If your childhood was like mine, it was marked by days spent tromping aimlessly in the mud, wading in creeks, and building forts in the forest.
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Flutes, saxophones, clarinets, trumpets and bassoons share the spotlight and take frequent solos that, like the vocals, often ramble aimlessly.
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The rule, Sic vos non vobis, never altogether to be got rid of in mens Industry, now presses with such incubus weight, that Industry must shake it off, or utterly be strangled under it; and, alas, can as yet but gasp and rave, and aimlessly struggle, like one in the final deliration.
Paras. 20-39
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The second half, largely spent wellying the ball aimlessly into Wigan territory, was unedifying stuff, in which only Dzeko, Agüero and Milner offered any attacking invention at all and only Hart's fine save from McCarthy – City's magnificent keeper is being presented with the man-of-the-match bubbly as I type – stopped Wigan equalising.
Wigan Athletic 0 Manchester City 1 | minute-by-minute report
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Didn't we all, every one of us, waste hours -- days, even -- aimlessly, purposelessly clicking links from one site to the next, not knowing where we would go and then not knowing where our hours went?
Jeff Jarvis: The Distraction Trope
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He channel surfed aimlessly as I stared blankly at the TV.
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he wandered around aimlessly
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Here was he, the individual, very possibly placed on -- at all events, infesting -- a particular planet for a considerable number of years; the planet was so elaborately constructed, so richly clothed with trees and valleys and uplands and running waters and multitudinary grass-blades, and the body that housed Felix Kennaston was so intricately wrought with tiny bones and veins and sinews, with sockets and valves and levers, and little hairs which grew upon the body like grass-blades about the earth, that it seemed unreasonable to suppose this much cunning mechanism had been set agoing aimlessly: and so, he often wondered if he was not perhaps expected to devote these years of human living to some intelligible purpose?
The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of Evasions
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I felt pretty useless, and began to drift around aimlessly, asking if anyone needed help.
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Without this switch mutant amoebas extended false feet called pseudopodia in all directions and wandered aimlessly as Ras flickered on and off at random points on their surfaces.
Media Newswire
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The sun was shining brightly, illuminating the soft, downy clouds that floated aimlessly about in the clear blue skies.
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Ross drove aimlessly through the outer suburbs, sharing the wide, wet road with the occasional noctambulant alley cat, a carload of cheering carousers, and electric mini-van delivering milk.
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Most of the people it seemed spent their time walking around aimlessly or staring and marvelling at the fires in pits outside their homes.
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A lone survivor was found in a life raft floating aimlessly in the ocean.
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You throw caution to the wind and amble aimlessly around fields bathing in inspirational pastels swaths that compel poets to compose poetry and Your inability to access the adumbral profundity of -
Acephalous
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You probably think that I've just been prattling away aimlessly on these pages for the past three and a half years, immune to the vagaries of the wonderful world of weblogs.
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I make a half-hearted attempt to clean my room but end up surfing the internet aimlessly.
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Sadly, most soccer sims just involve hoofing it up the pitch and loads of chasing aimlessly after the ball.
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There are dozens of young hares running about aimlessly in the fields while young cock pheasants are crowing their heads off in every garden and potato patch.
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This approach has led many to wonder if the apparent madness in the method is deliberate or if he is fumbling around aimlessly.
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Some people keep wandering aimlessly from womb to tomb. They seek nothing and achieve nothing. RVM
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Vincent spends his days driving aimlessly about the French interior, stopping on occasion to read his newspaper in a park or to drink coffee in a roadside cafe.
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It's not aimlessly hitting putts on a putting green.
Times, Sunday Times
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Aimlessly I wander back into our room, and poke through the bag we brought, choosing a plain, undecorated yellow dress.
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Street lights fail to work, litter is strewn everywhere, vandalism is rife, and adolescents roam the streets aimlessly.
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A couple of tracks meander aimlessly so that by the end of the album I'm left with the feeling that the band didn't quite know which direction to take.
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My keen eyes found a small kid meandering around the area aimlessly.
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She meandered the streets aimlessly, little sandals patting against the cobblestones - following half a thought and half a memory.
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Flutes, saxophones, clarinets, trumpets and bassoons share the spotlight and take frequent solos that, like the vocals, often ramble aimlessly.
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He knew of an adolescent girl who had been brought on three weekends to the hospital in Tullamore by gardaí who had found her wandering aimlessly.
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Even what was supposed to be the ultimate taboo, murder, has been demystified and wanders our streets aimlessly every other weekend.
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Old men and women wander aimlessly around what used to be narrow streets and gardens.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ivy wandered aimlessly in her chemise and petticoats, too distraught to return to her quarters and dress.
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Rather than wandering around aimlessly, the ovoid twosome decided to visit a nearby castle to obtain directions.
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Here's the American Heritage Dictionary on "maundering": 1. To talk incoherently or aimlessly.
"It was a strategic mistake to send Sarah Palin out on the stump as warrior girl. Mr. McCain is war-y enough."
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American hard rockers Amen have been quiet in the UK but have signed a major deal in the States and the shambolic Alfie are still dawdling along albeit somewhat aimlessly.
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Even now Skipton's car parks are chock-a-block on a warm summer's day and tourists drive round aimlessly and with increasing frustration.
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In those days, I am firm matriculate, overflow in the library everyday stroll aimlessly.
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This morning, I stumble downstairs in the zombielike pre-coffee state and wander aimlessly around the kitchen.
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And yet Warm Water meanders aimlessly towards a sentimental conclusion, introducing eccentric characters along the way who are never followed up.
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I wandered aimlessly around thinking about the play and failing to find a wireless hotspot.
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One or two people wandered about aimlessly.
A Channel of Peace
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For the rest of the morning he searched aimlessly through the town.
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The perception most of us have of him is that of an ageing playboy prince, aimlessly roaming the globe in search of a good time.
The Sun
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I have been wandering around kind of aimlessly so far today.
Sheepdip Diary Entry
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Alien eggplants, they deign epicycloid arcs aimlessly spaced on a fragmented landscape of trap stone and tar, terra cotta chimney caps and aluminum antennae.
Silver Spring to Phoenix
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Even now Skipton's car parks are chock-a-block on a warm summer's day and tourists drive round aimlessly and with increasing frustration.
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The storm just kind of aimlessly moving by early next week, not expecting to make landfall along the U.S., and the reason why is very simple, the same frontal boundary we had yesterday that is going to keep the storm at bay.
CNN Transcript Nov 9, 2008
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Occasionally a sightseer would appear and wander aimlessly by, but of all who passed none was aware that anything extraordinary had occurred.
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It keeps the player from wandering aimlessly, which is good, but the puzzles are so straightforward as to be almost occasionally insulting.
PopMatters
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The viewer is left to create a large amount of continuity out of the dialogue and scenes that wander aimlessly.
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He used that excuse to meander aimlessly around the cotton fields; sometimes, he would walk clear across the plantation, and sit between the rows for hours, just thinking.
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One or two people wandered about aimlessly.
A Channel of Peace
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Unable to sleep, Roza took to wandering the castle aimlessly, once again prey to her restless and relentless torment.
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Cast asea where she drifts aimlessly for a period of weeks, Zhered-Na receives prophecies of future wars and the rise of costumed heroes like Captain America and Spider-Man, before she eventually lands ashore.
Retro-View: Adventure Into Fear #15
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Riga grinned proudly and plucked at the sleeve of his shirt aimlessly.
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She was wandering aimlessly up and down the road.
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Old men and women wander aimlessly around what used to be narrow streets and gardens.
Times, Sunday Times
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He'd driven the van around aimlessly until it had run out of fuel and spluttered and died.
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It's not aimlessly hitting putts on a putting green.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘Move aimlessly,’ a woman on bullhorn directed, and the group moved on.
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Others see it as a boon for the Piggly Wiggly, a supermarket across the street from Augusta National, which could make a bundle of cash with protesters wandering aimlessly about its parking lot.
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People walked around aimlessly, or watched CNN on the big-screen TVs the National Guard had set up around the armory.
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When I was still a child, I discovered a thought that resonated strongly with me: "It is better to shine brightly and then burn out than to slowly smoulder aimlessly.
Khodorkovsky Unabridged
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Many stumbled aimlessly through the main square, their faces frozen in blank shock as if unable to believe what they were seeing.
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KATIE DARYL, "TMZ TV": In the world of Britney, it is so normal just to drive around kind of aimlessly all night.
CNN Transcript Jan 8, 2008
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They plodded aimlessly and despondent through the subpolar surroundings.
Parlor Games
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Hair unbound, women bedecked in shmattes of white tulle waft aimlessly around a stage hung with school-pageant clouds.
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We were both quiet as we watched the cirrus and cumulous clouds float aimlessly in the vast opening above us.
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There's an actual arc, and some literary novels just meander aimlessly, which is why I can't enjoy them as much as I should.
Fighting the Genre
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It leaves some coach drivers with nowhere to park, aimlessly driving round the airport until their passengers appear outside the terminal.
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Me and Chris wandered aimlessly, found our way to Claire's house, went in while they were out, and ate their food.
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She took note of the open plan bars and restaurants, the oppressive fluorescent lights and the doddering passengers wandering aimlessly trying to kill time.
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For the rest of the morning he searched aimlessly through the town.
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Random branches hung aimlessly above her head and the neighbors' rose bushes stretched thinly across their metal fence like an achromatic spider web.
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She has been cruising around aimlessly for a while now but it is going to get dark soon and the one person she needs to talk to is Greg.
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But he quickly went back into his shell, meandering around aimlessly in midfield.
The Sun
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The two of them sauntered off in opposite directions, as if aimlessly.
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The soft purple buds from the jacarandas of a distant park, borne by the wind, floated aimlessly down from the sky, landing on his prostrate body, settling across his back in an impromptu bouquet.
The Sanchez Ghost
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Old men and women wander aimlessly around what used to be narrow streets and gardens.
Times, Sunday Times
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Luke is a beery slacker, a soccer fan, and a wannabe writer aimlessly in search of the perfect girl, the perfect dumb movie, the perfect all-night high.
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If the hereafter is anything like its filmic namesake, then it will turn out to be glacially slow, eternally boring, and pointless, with seemingly random plot lines aimlessly wandering about the ethereal landscape.
Michael Shermer: The Eternally Boring Hereafter
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So anyways while Connor is obsessing about this new breed of terminator and how its going to come kill him Wright wanders around pretty aimlessly until happening upon Kyle Reese, the hero of the first Terminator film (Linda Hamilton not withstanding), played here by Anton Yelchin.
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Old men and women wander aimlessly around what used to be narrow streets and gardens.
Times, Sunday Times
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Old men and women wander aimlessly around what used to be narrow streets and gardens.
Times, Sunday Times
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I make a half-hearted attempt to clean my room but end up surfing the internet aimlessly.
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He'd done no more than accidentally bump against some sailors aimlessly wandering from the passage next to the warehouse.
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Like thousands of suspended jellyfishes, they floated aimlessly in the air.
Spread ArtCulture: Interview with Edward Burtynsky: Photographing a Planet on the Edge
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It can make you freeze, panic, chatter aimlessly, lose your train of thought or perspire profusely.
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My shikari, writhing with extreme excitement, hissed, "Baloo, sahib, baloo!" and began aimlessly running to and fro, apparently hoping to meet the bear somewhere.
A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil
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But he quickly went back into his shell, meandering around aimlessly in midfield.
The Sun
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Hundreds of trucks are aimlessly hanging around the army rear.
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Either you'll be enthralled by his underplayed persona or drift aimlessly and inattentively away from his soporific compositions.
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Old men and women wander aimlessly around what used to be narrow streets and gardens.
Times, Sunday Times
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The best way to see this place is to wander aimlessly through public areas, internal patios and courtyards.
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She walked aimlessly round the room, keeping a wide circle about him, not knowing what she was looking for.
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So they "loafed" and chatted aimlessly, and drank huge quantities of the billy-tea, that is quite the nicest tea in the world, especially when it is stirred with a stick.
A Little Bush Maid
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Street lights fail to work, litter is strewn everywhere, vandalism is rife, and adolescents roam the streets aimlessly.
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The air was close and suffocating in the black car, as she drove aimlessly down the interstate, trying to flee from all her memories and the life that was sucking all the wants and needs from her that once made her happy.
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The ability to call early elections when incumbents have been discredited is one of the strengths of these kind of systems of government, but you may as well use the power to actually avoid America-style “months of drifting aimlessly.”
Matthew Yglesias » Resigning in Iceland
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Some people keep wandering aimlessly from womb to tomb. They seek nothing and achieve nothing. RVM
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Sadly, most soccer sims just involve hoofing it up the pitch and loads of chasing aimlessly after the ball.
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Great white sharks do not aimlessly wander the ocean waiting to stumble upon their next meal.
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The world known as Virga is a fullerene balloon 3,000 kilometers in diameter, filled with air, water, and aimlessly floating chunks of rock.
Free AudioBook: Sun of Suns by Karl Schroeder
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A free-swimming roundworm thus looks rather like it is thrashing about aimlessly.
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Dyke went down the stairs to the street and proceeded onward aimlessly vacantly at the sidewalk.
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She sat down aimlessly on a settle by the fireplace.
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After sitting, resting, and chatting aimlessly for a while, Kei told me she was going to sleep for a little bit, so I let her lay her sleeping pallet down on the ground and so forth.
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I wandered aimlessly in sunglasses, bumping into walls, licking burger-less hamburger buns.
Cheeseburger Gothic » Chill the fuck out.
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We wandered aimlessly around Paris for three days just going to all these different tourist sights in the days and in the evenings we'd live the night life.
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Kids who would have been at school today moseyed along the street aimlessly, chatting to friends and laughing about their favourite South Park episode.
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Dérive is a Situationist International concept that refers to walking aimlessly, following the smallest whim (never let it be said that you don’t learn anything here at Inhabitat).
ENERGY HARVESTING SNEAKERS – Art students hack Heelys! | Inhabitat
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The unruly hounds had lost faith in themselves and scrambled about aimlessly, yapping at birds, rabbits, stones, shadows.
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If we're out in the car, lost in an area we've never visited before, he would rather we drive round aimlessly for hours than ask directions.
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She leaned over the railing on the roof, calling aimlessly and hopelessly.
Eve to the Rescue
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A few lost souls wander aimlessly down to the front and stare up at Bono's frantic, manic animation, briefly bemused.
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I may have to spend some time wandering aimlessly around looking zombified and off-centre.
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The youth of the present generation is wandering aimlessly without any fixity of purpose.
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Unfortunately, Allen can't maintain this consistent level of humor or energy, and Small Time Crooks begins to meander aimlessly.
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About them, a flock of sheep and goats milled aimlessly.
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I simply needed to be content with staring aimlessly at his amazing pinstripe suit and perfectly styled pocket-handkerchief
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