gadabout

Example Sentences

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Ellington, Basie and Armstrong successfully navigated that perilous world, and these self-described gadabouts got to see this vast country in a way few Americans, and almost no Black Americans, did then.

From Los Angeles Times

She is, after all, the English-born, Oxford-educated former editor of Tatler, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Talk and The Daily Beast, as well as a prolific freelance writer, intermittent broadcaster, conference organizer and general gadabout.

From New York Times

Mr. Belmondo was inundated with offers and tried to avoid being typecast as the likable gadabout.

From Washington Post

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

It’s not even that I’m more gadabout here.

From Washington Post