Example Sentences

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It seems Rep. Richie Yow, R-Chesterfield, was tooling down the road when a piece of metal was flung into his window by a mower he was traveling alongside.

From Washington Times • Feb. 19, 2020

I was tooling along Washington’s streets, minding my own business, when a woman pulled up next to me and shouted into my half-open window.

From Washington Post • Aug. 3, 2018

Now he was tooling around with the keyboard on his iPad, trying to integrate it into a piece.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 9, 2015

In the late 1970s, Johnson was tooling around the country when his motorcycle broke down in Berkeley.

From Salon • Jun. 2, 2013

It was November 1982, and I was tooling down Virginia State Route 460 in my green 1972 Volkswagen at four A.M.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride