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

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

Then Rebecca’s barely in her grave and that gadabout Maxim is littering the place up with some gold-digging floozy who thinks she can waltz right in and take over.

From The Guardian • Jun. 18, 2015

Two cups broken, Lily a gadabout who would bring them to the grave with shame!

From The Bill-Toppers by Castaigne, J. André