gadabout
Example Sentences
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Every time someone would exit, Chip Py, photographer and Silver Spring gadabout, would shout, “What’d you order?”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2023
She is, after all, the English-born, Oxford-educated former editor of Tatler, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Talk and The Daily Beast, as well as a prolific freelance writer, intermittent broadcaster, conference organizer and general gadabout.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2022
Schoeffer is a gadabout, and he led the young couple over jebel and oued—hill and stream—in Morocco’s rugged backcountry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2018
The queen looks serious and demure - nothing like the gadabout many took her to be.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2015
May I take you to your destination here in my little gadabout?
From The Reclaimers by Margaret Hill McCarter
