mooch around
mooch about

When she went back to the boat I mooched around by myself for a while.

Some just long for a slow mooch around a department store.

Mooching around at school until 18 is not good for the country or the pupil.

I spent the rest of the day mooching around the station, thinking about Lisa.

There didn't seem to be quite so many mooching around these days, that was a fact.

"You might as well mooch around and get to know the ship," said the captain.

And I mean they did get out and have a little mooch around the car park.

But teenagers grow up, go to university, and suddenly mooching around Europe is possible again.

I could hear the soldiers mooching around outside, and in the middle distance there was shouting.

Each time they'd mooch around until their mood lifted with the next prospect.

All that talk of "Sylvia" had been just an excuse for mooching around.

"So I was mooching around listening to all their foolishness, but then a message came in instead of going out."

He spills the whole lay, and all the tabs have been mooching around.

"Today is just a mooching around day, to see what's going on, which editors need a photographer.

The Samaritans mooched around the waiting room long enough for two of them to sober up.

"OK if I have a mooch around in the stores and take some stuff with me?

Then I went back downstairs and mooched around.

Why not, they have the best places to mooch around and wonderful ice-cream, wine, food etc.

I've become an avid gardener myself of late and love nothing more than a good mooch around a garden centre, looking for inspiration.

I was told one flight was full, and left the gate to mooch around the newsstands.

"I told him it wouldn't be safe to go mooching around a lot of newsstands - not even for me.

And then, very quietly, she had mooched around the moonlit room like an animal getting the feel of a lair.

After that, I mooched around a little longer, looking for a lingering trace of the magic that had been there once.

That's why I'm going to mooch about the grounds a bit after dark.

Lauren mooched about the school in a very bad mood.

What're you doing mooching about out there when the dinner's on the table?'

Rex mooched about the graves wondering when we were going to have lunch.

'He's been up there watching us for weeks, mooching about the place after dark.

"Don't worry, she'll be mooching about that island for a week before anyone finds her.

Don't mooch about at home all the time.

I hadn't actually set out to bury my taste for useless mooching about, but I'd had to let it slip away.

Paige lay back, watching him mooch about, putting a pot over the fire and ranging their clothes to dry.

He still thinks you were mooching about New York when that taxi blew up."

If swine, then big wild boar, hunting quietly in the woods for something, mooching about and turning things up.

Hoomey had said no one would go back there tonight and it was as good a place to mooch about in as any other.

White cell 007 nods: 'You can't help hearing it, the way he keeps on mooching about the house, hating everything and everyone.

Those two loonies mooching about.

They went about their task with practised efficiency while he mooched about, opening and closing cupboard doors, trying not to get in anyone's way.

"And just getting the hut meant that there was an avenue of escape; just mooching about, getting away from the city.

The three of us mooched about the office, making aimless conversation, glancing with studied carelessness into the front street, whistling little tunes to ourselves.

I'll mooch about the hotel.'

It was obviously the same fellow who had been mooching about after dark, one of those who had come that night and looted the toolshed.

You can play along," "Just mooching about.... looking for trouble," said Keen.

We could hear squad dies continually toing and froing, doing their washing, and just generally mooching about.

But mooch about Keighley town, too: there's great period property in pockets off Skipton Road, and decent mill conversions.

They do not, as many of the rest of us do, skip dessert and then, back at home, mooching about the house at midnight, devour half a cake.

His mission had been conceived in AD 591, when Pope Gregory had been mooching about a slave market in Rome.

He slept a lot of the Sunday and Monday and, when awake, just mooched about his bed-sitter in the gloom that inevitably followed moments of high excitement.