Move about in a confused manner

Usage examples of milling.

He smiled sardonically, gesturing behind him to the center of the camp where the dismounted Nomads were milling angrily, confused, ashamed.

The people were milling around in anticipation, some throwing spears of their own down the well-trampled course.

He had arrived in the last car from Earth, whose hundred other passengers were milling about in Gate Hall, listening to the advice of the guardsmen or gawking at the scale of it.

Turveydrop was in bed, I found, and Caddy was milling his chocolate, which a melancholy little boy who was an apprentice --it seemed such a curious thing to be apprenticed to the trade of dancing--was waiting to carry upstairs.

One of its most notable contributions was a milling machine that used a powerful blast of air to turn bacterial and viral mixtures into a fine powder.

But once again there were no soldiers baring the way, only men in dark gakas milling around the open archway.

Dark evergreens fanned out a mile behind her, rising taller and milling thicker in proportion to her distance--as if tree society wanted no part of Persimmon Gaunt and her foul book.

They charged into the camp and reined in, their horses milling about, knocking over buckets and chairs, kicking up a haze of dust in the firelight.

There was a sense of urgency, now, and very little Teutonic efficiency about the milling scrum of men and soldiers.

North Shore suburbs and planned communities and people leaving their front doors agape in their rush to get out and mill around and spectate at the circle of impacted waste drawing sober and studious crowds, milling in rings around the impact, earnestly comparing mental notes on just what it is they all see.

Or at least that was what they claimed whenever they were stopped and asked what they were doing, those milling bands of Slavs and Rumanians and Danes and Greeks, Belgians and Armenians and Dutch, some determined and some merely dazed, others wild-eyed or tame by turns as they chaotically croaked their messages and banged their long staves on the floor, pilgrims far from home swaying as stalks of grain in the wind, those confusing groups of Maltese and Czechs and French and Norwegians, Cypriots and Hungarians and Poles, the many stateless wanderers and the occasional homespun Albanian.

Blade could respond, the Venesects poured from passages at the base of the ruins, streams of pale figures flowing into the crater and milling about.

Atomium sphere -- not surprising, there must be thirty people milling around up here, not counting the waitrons -- and several local multicast channels are playing a variety of styles of music to synchronize the mood swings of the revelers to hardcore techno, waltz, raga.

With a firm grip on his shoulder, the emperor of Shan was guiding him through the milling crowd, into the public room where Carina and Adar had set up their aid station.

Wyandotes, Cochins, Leghorns, and Australorps milling around over the way.