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Definition

to move slowly in a winding or indefinite direction — (often said of a river, or path, or conversation)

meanders = follows a winding course (rather than following a definite direction)

Her journey back was rather a meander than a march.
Hardy, Thomas -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman
meandering around the countryside
Robert Cormier -- I Am the Cheese

meandering = moving slowly without a definite direction

It was one of a meandering row of mossy, green-roofed cottages lined up along a stream bank
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Bean Trees

meandering = winding or twisting (not set out in a straight manner)

meandered = wandered

Grandma warns me to take the dinner can directly and not be meandering, looking this way and that, kicking canisters and ruining the toes of my shoes.
Frank McCourt -- Angela's Ashes

meandering = moving slowly without a definite direction

The roads in the cemetery meandered, turning this way and that, so I was constantly shifting back and forth...
Carl Deuker -- Gym Candy

meandered = had winding curves (rather than being straight)

I watched the currents meander, the lazy ripples that once in a while broke along the surface.
Sue Monk Kidd -- The Secret Life of Bees

meander = flow slowly on a winding course

Ol' Sam would meander off a little to the left and I would holler, "Gee!"; but he was hard of hearing and...
Forest Carter -- Education of Little Tree

meander = slowly wander (off of a direct course)

I meandered off the sidewalk a little, heading toward the old trees that lined the eastern side of the thick wall surrounding the school grounds.
P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast -- Betrayed

meandered = moving slowly in an indefinite direction

It leads through the front doors and turns into a hallway, which meanders between rows of lockers and classrooms on both sides, finally entering the always-open door to first period.
Jay Asher -- Thirteen Reasons Why

meanders = a winding or indefinite direction

Cold from its source the stream meanders Darkly down through the oleanders, All night long in dream I lie, Ah me
Cranmer-Byng, L. -- A Lute of Jade
I'm tied hand and foot, and I can't get up and meander over green pastures.
London, Jack -- Burning Daylight
Not to meander myself, at present, I will go back to my birth.
Dickens, Charles -- David Copperfield
The tinkling of a piano meanders up through the window and to my ears.
Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed
With this in mind, she took a slow, meandering route back toward midtown and the rented darkroom.
Nora Roberts -- Summer Pleasures
They were sailing very slowly up a river without banks that meandered between arid sandbars stretching to the horizon.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Love in the Time of Cholera
They descended from the knoll and meandered toward Farthen Dur.
Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
They watched Hagrid meander tipsily up to the castle.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
In fact, this was the first time I'd ever seen them look so poorly focused, eyes meandering around the room, several of them on edge.
Kiera Cass -- The One

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