Example Sentences

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Urgent financial woes are replaced by maundering romantic dramas.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 2026

In the process, “The Twice-Born” becomes a moving, if maundering, riff on what it means to be modern.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 30, 2019

I admit to being a sucker for this kind of intellectual maundering about the meaning of sports, but I know plenty of sports fans can’t stand it.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2017

Dirda originally described the essays, with characteristic deprecation, as “just me, maundering on about this and that, usually with a literary theme lurking somewhere.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 4, 2015

We put up a small handwritten notice at the newspaper office and made sure that old Backy Medlin, the gin’s most maundering gossip, knew what we were looking for.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly