Example Sentences

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Kobi Libii’s satirical comedy, “The American Society of Magical Negroes,” opens in an art gallery where people are milling about.

From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2024

Friends and family have stuck around and are milling about, waiting to celebrate another victory with the best girls’ basketball team in the country.

From Washington Post • Feb. 24, 2022

Inside the old brick building, other vendors are milling around, drinking coffee from an industrial-sized urn and waiting to pick up the new edition.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 10, 2019

Three Nigerian men are milling around on a balcony of an apartment building on the edge of garbage strewn fields in India's tourist getaway of Goa.

From BBC • Nov. 18, 2013

A lot of us are milling around, and the guards are being unusually nice as they try to nudge everyone to their work assignments or back to their trailers.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed