perambulation

How To Use perambulation In A Sentence

• To assert the extent of your land, you might hold a ceremony called a "perambulation," in which you would walk around and record the boundaries of your property in the presence of witnesses. Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
• At night, no one is allowed to walk around the camp without a guide, in case they bump into one of the enormous hippos that stroll past the chalets during their nocturnal perambulations from river to bush.
• Apart from his often very lengthy religious perambulations, Carter's daily diary entries tend to be short memos, often abbreviated and cryptic, as if briefly reminding himself what he had done, or what he had thought: using the diary as an aide-memoire rather than as a personal chronicle. 'The Making of Mr. Gray's Anatomy: Books, Bodies, Fortune, Fame'
• Yet despite being saddle-sore (I refused to use a specially inflatable seat cover printed with Dennis the Menace's face) and walking like John Wayne, I actually started to enjoy my regular daily perambulations.
• perambulation" of the park, some description of its present condition and appearance may help to form an opinion. The Naturalist on the Thames
• There were no cartographers, no global positioning system, apart from the tramp of human feet in solemn perambulations.
• Stick on the post, and do the regular perambulation and inspection. To eliminate the hidden trouble in time.
• But he noticed it was missing one day during one of his many perambulations around the city.
• In order to execute the lesser charter, it was requisite, by new perambulations, to set bounds to the royal forests, and to disafforest all land which former encroachments had comprehended within their limits. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part B. From Henry III. to Richard III.
• On an odometer basis, my perambulations around the hearthrug by rocking chair are infinitely more dangerous than an astronaut's wildest rides through space.