woolgathering

IPA: wˈʊɫgˈæðɝɪŋ

Examples of "woolgathering" in Sentences

Idea sessions can easily dissolve into wandering and woolgathering.
Like woolgathering and other empty pursuits, wistful might-have-beens had no place in my mind.
She snorted, angry at woolgathering, knowing that among the younger ones it would appear as senility.
A gentle buzzing at the base of his skull reminded him that his woolgathering was happening on company time.
Perpetual regret well describes the mood of the speakers in "Great House," and at times their stories recede into sloughs of forlorn woolgathering.
But my publisher was a benighted occupant of that quotidian realm where these things have been forgotten; all he and anyone else cares about these days isrelevantfacts, not the useless trivia I had accumulated over a lifetime of woolgathering.
People my age or not too much younger may remember times as a child -- and even later -- when they stared aimlessly at sunlight playing on trees, or lay on their backs looking up at clouds or otherwise engaged in that hopelessly antediluvian activity -- woolgathering.