Example Sentences

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She noticed that many of older people were tooling around the neighborhood in Laura Ashley-style dresses, sneakers and fanny packs.

From Washington Post • Jul. 19, 2018

Around midnight, we were tooling through San Francisco in a cab toward our hotel.

From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2016

One night around that time, four of us were tooling down the Modarres Highway when a police car signaled for us to pull over.

From The Guardian • Apr. 28, 2016

Katzenberg will run the studio; late last week the two men were tooling around Los Angeles in Katzenberg's Mustang, looking for a studio lot.

From Time Magazine Archive

Put them into glass jars; and having kept the syrup warm over the fire while the pears were tooling, pour it over them.

From Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches by Leslie, Eliza