noun
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Origin of woolgathering
Example Sentences
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But such are the longueurs of this would-be slam-bang blockbuster directed by Robert Schwentke, that it sure does inspire woolgathering.
From New York Times ● Jul. 22, 2021
I listened to their woolgathering for a while, and then some artillery rumbled in the distance.
From New York Times ● Oct. 29, 2014
Most people spend between 30 and 47 percent of their waking hours spacing out, drifting off, lost in thought, woolgathering, in a brown study or building castles in the air.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 22, 2014
Thus the eminent scholars and critics who once busied themselves in disputations about the number of Lady Macbeth's children or Hamlet's course of study at Wittenberg were actually engaged in nothing more than romantic woolgathering.
From Time Magazine Archive
The train lurched over a patch of rough tracks, jarring me out of my woolgathering.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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