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

The author insists she is not a gadabout, though after the release of “Primates” she was snapped at any number of benefit galas.

From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2018

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

And Nerida's doings would make a book worth reading—especially by married women with gadabout husbands like Packenham.

From Rodman The Boatsteerer And Other Stories 1898 by Becke, Louis