gadabout
Example Sentences
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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
Not that the Premier League’s promotional machine will be overly concerned as the season unspools into its final dreamy sunlit Sunday gadabout.
From The Guardian ● May 12, 2018
She was briefly married to the tennis pro Andre Agassi, who portrayed her in “Open,” his 2009 autobiography, as a socially ambitious gadabout to his off-the-courts homebody.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2018
That afternoon the strolling couple encounter David’s college friend, Andrew, a sophisticated gadabout and ladies’ man who is immediately smitten with the human tidal wave from Turkestan.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2016
"Well, spite of all I, or anybody could do, Miss Swaim takes my little gadabout this morning and makes off with it."
From The Reclaimers by McCarter, Margaret Hill
