saunterer

Example Sentences

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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

His nature lore was an aside; he gathered it as the meditative saunterer gathers a leaf, or a flower, or a shell on the beach, while he ponders on higher things.

From The Last Harvest by Burroughs, John

The detective, who seemed to have been just a saunterer, had accommodated himself to Francis' destination.

From The Evil Shepherd by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

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

I will confess that there was a time when I could have loved that career as a saunterer in West End streets.

From Hurricane Island by Watson, H. B. Marriott (Henry Brereton Marriott)