Example Sentences

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Ever since he has been mooning about the yard and in and out of the kitchen very glum and silent. 

From Letters from Egypt by Ross, Janet

And for just that length of time he has been mooning.

From Green Fancy by McCutcheon, George Barr

And he flourishes out of the room; a man who has done a good hour's work, Farrant, who has been mooning depressedly around, now backs towards the door.

From Waste A Tragedy, In Four Acts by Granville-Barker, Harley

As for Josephine, she has been mooning about the house all day in a state of chronic tearfulness.

From The Opinions of a Philosopher by Grant, Robert