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

So for a while, Prince Andrew was just Classic Royal, maybe a wastrel and a gadabout in peacetime, but a standup guy in a war.

From The Guardian • Nov. 18, 2019

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

Caroline Copeland was a welcome omnipresence as choreographer and dancer in “Carnaval” and as a mute gadabout, Fulvio, in the Pergolesi, holding the stage with her antics before the performance and at intermission as well.

From New York Times • Jun. 19, 2017

Then, when he was told by various people that she was keeping very steady and investing money in Government securities, that she was no gadabout, but was kept by a Mons.

From The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 Boule de Suif and Other Stories by Maupassant, Guy de