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

It is very common in the gardens about Colombo, and its size, and the transparent talc-like spots in its wings, cannot fail to strike even the most careless saunterer.

From Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir

He says that the word saunterer was derived from those persons who, during the Middle Ages, went on crusades to the Holy Land.

From Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out by Ryder, Annie H

The detective, who seemed to have been just a saunterer, had accommodated himself to Francis' destination.

From The Evil Shepherd by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

No more than this would the casual saunterer along that unfrequented footpath through the plantations meet or see.

From Dorrien of Cranston by Mitford, Bertram