meander
verb (used without object)
to proceed by or take a winding or indirect course.
meandered
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past participleof meander.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof meander.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
meanderverb (used without object)to proceed by or take a winding or indirect course.
Example Sentences
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Just whatever came to his mind as he rhetorically meandered for more than an hour at each rally.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
Hawking could intuit the mathematics that describes the fabric of spacetime, but in that earlier book he sometimes forgot that the rest of us could not do the same, and meandered into distracting mathematical discussions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
He was a keen student of dialect; doing movies in the South, he meandered down backroads, learning just the right way to frame a question in rural Mississippi or deliver a compliment in west Texas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2026
There was a festival air on this public holiday as families marched and meandered in a warm winter's sun.
From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2026
We meandered past them, but a few of the regulars raising their hats.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
