saunterer

Example Sentences

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In America, she believes, she can be “light and cosmopolitan, a world-touring saunterer, untethered by land or home … taking flight.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 3, 2022

Perhaps, at the time when he showed this energy about a game at dice, Alcibiades might have been a saunterer at his book, and a foolish schoolmaster might have made him a dunce.

From Practical Education, Volume I by Edgeworth, Maria

Thither, too, comes the saunterer, anxious to get rid of that wearisome attendant himself, and thither come both males and females, who, upon a different principle, desire to make themselves double.

From St. Ronan's Well by Scott, Walter, Sir

Here the Sunday saunterer stops and lounges with his book, and bathes his hands and face in the cool fountain.

From The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton by Burroughs, John

He had become a saunterer, and the shop windows had obtained from him an attention which he had never previously bestowed upon them.

From Mysterious Mr. Sabin by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)