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 • May 8, 2024

The American songbook is overloaded with bandits, drifters, rascals, gadabouts, thieves, vagrants, philanderers, and degenerates—wounded, brooding men who either refused to bend to cultural expectations or couldn’t quite figure out how to.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 20, 2018

While young St. Petersburg gadabouts play cards for small fortunes, the poor and frugal Hermann merely looks on.

From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2017

Curtiss builds Hawks, Falcons, Condors and Fledglings, all military planes which can be modified for transports and gadabouts.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Where have you two gadabouts been?" he laughed merrily.

From The Little Gray Lady 1909 by Smith, Francis Hopkinson