man-about-town
Example Sentences
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He rose from humble pastoral beginnings to become a man about town in an industry where Black people weren’t afforded such prominent positions.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 16, 2023
Nathaniel Parker Willis, the famous writer, editor of the weekly newspaper the Home Journal, and man about town, had taken Catherine into his home when she first separated from Forrest.
From Slate • May 27, 2022
There was a cameo by the Italian-born man about town who had introduced Donald Trump to a model named Melania Knauss, the future first lady.
From Seattle Times • May 7, 2022
He reported to camp in peak condition, ready to embrace a new role for his 30s: wizened clubhouse leader and debonair man about town.
From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2022
Why, I wondered, had Bob Brackenbury, so essentially a man about town, come there to consult a Baptist missionary, and accompanied, too, by the man he was scheming to unmask?
From Spies of the Kaiser Plotting the Downfall of England by Le Queux, William
