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  • noun Plural form of roaming.

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Examples

  • And the Monsters to begin wild roamings, because that they also to know of the

    The Night Land 2007

  • There were objections to the Department of Justice's scheme to insure that cell phones were also tracking devices, presumably to aid 911 services, but potentially becoming homing devices to follow our roamings.

    Did Encryption Empower These Terrorists? 2007

  • At the present moment she was very wretched; and was certainly unselfish in her wish to see her daughter comfortably settled before she commenced those miserable roamings with her son which seemed to be her coming destiny.

    The Way We Live Now 2004

  • He might have, too, had not one day a child, one of, the refugee children, happened across Caramon in his dismal roamings.

    Dragons of a Fallen Sun Weis, Margaret 2000

  • The panther turned away from his hunt and scurried toward one of many places especially prepared for his night roamings.

    Conan the Fearless Perry, Steve 1986

  • All my roamings will only make me love home better, and those whose lives are so woven in with mine.

    Dawn Harriet A. Adams

  • And in Finland he found a certain woman, the like of whom he had never seen for fairness in all his roamings.

    Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age Robert Leighton

  • Whereas reporting on a salary had begun to be something of a grind, the less profitable roamings of a free lance furnished a life that had color and everlasting freshness.

    If You Don't Write Fiction Charles Phelps Cushing

  • Æschylus reviews her roamings in his great tragedy, "Prometheus Bound," and makes Io to arrive at Mount Caucasus to which the fire-bringer is chained.

    The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 Various

  • Having now fairly begun my life as a cowboy, I was fast learning the many ins and outs of the business, while my many roamings over the range country gave me a knowledge of it not possessed by many at that time.

    The Life and Adventures of Nat Love Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick" Nat Love

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