Example Sentences

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Further support for the importance of disengaged circuit operations comes from “offline” brain activity when an animal is milling around doing nothing, consuming a reward or just sleeping.

From Scientific American • May 31, 2022

In the opening pages, Jimmerson is milling around post-WWI Europe, looking for work and fun before headed back home stateside.

From Slate • Dec. 31, 2020

A crowd is milling purposefully outside Kolachi, and cars are triple-parked.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 31, 2018

“And the strings are the focal point of the axis. Everything is milling around those central strings.”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 6, 2017

A crowd is milling outside the embassy gates, but no one dares to enter.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García