gadabout

Example Sentences

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Every time someone would exit, Chip Py, photographer and Silver Spring gadabout, would shout, “What’d you order?”

From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2023

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 • Apr. 22, 2022

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

The queen looks serious and demure - nothing like the gadabout many took her to be.

From BBC • Sep. 23, 2015

But here am I preaching away like any old gadabout, and you not as much as taken your bonnet off yet.

From The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891 by Wood, Charles W.