saunterer

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

Unable to make anything of its meaning, the saunterer put it in her pocket, and, dismissing the matter from her mind, went on by the by-path which led to the back of the mill. 

From The Trumpet-Major by Hardy, Thomas

Perhaps, at the time when he showed this energy about a game at dice, Alcibiades might have been a saunterer at his book, and a foolish schoolmaster might have made him a dunce.

From Practical Education, Volume I by Edgeworth, Maria

Willis was a kindly saunterer, the first Boston dandy, who began his literary career with grotesque propriety as a sentimentalizer of Bible stories, a performance which Lowell gayly called inspiration and water.

From Literary and Social Essays by Curtis, George William

Here the Sunday saunterer stops and lounges with his book, and bathes his hands and face in the cool fountain.

From The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton by Burroughs, John