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Example sentences for "saunter"

Lexicographically close words:
sauld; saule; saules; saumon; saunt; sauntered; sauntering; saunterings; saunters; saunz
  1. I stepped out, and walked on before, thankful for the incident, which had given me the opportunity of a saunter along the road.

  2. Michael and Alan would look particularly conscious of their virtue and admit they had had a very tiring week, what with football and Cicero and Quadratic Equations; and so after affectionate good nights they would saunter up to bed.

  3. They'll limp around a little while and then forget all about it But Bones wants us to come over to his house, so if you have no objections we'll just saunter across lots and see what he's got going.

  4. Perhaps he's just stepped out to saunter around with one of the girls, like some of the others have done," he observed.

  5. It was no idle saunter through the Northern woods.

  6. SIR POET, ere you crossed the lawn (If it was wrong to watch you, pardon) Behind this weeping birch withdrawn, I watched you saunter round the garden.

  7. The day has been warm, cloudless, beautiful, and, now that evening is approaching, the sentries begin to saunter out from the deeper shade that has lured them during the afternoon and to give a more soldierly tone to the picture.

  8. A footstep, somewhat slow, either from a disposition to saunter on the part of the promenader or possible languor and weakness, is coming along the hallway.

  9. There is a reason for this local product, about which I have written more seriously elsewhere, and if you saunter here, beware of sympathy with crying children.

  10. When he is being played, many of us have to rush away and saunter in the foyer.

  11. Every lover of fine wildness would delight to saunter on a summer day through the flowery groves now occupying the filled-up portion of the basin.

  12. He was an admirer of what was high and good, of what was delicate (especially); but he delighted most to saunter along the humbler regions, where kindness of heart and geniality of humor made the way pleasant.

  13. Counting the minutes till I cry "Depart," As brood-bird when you saunter past her eggs.

  14. There would still be bloods, still elegant creatures to saunter across the courts, languidly arm in arm.

  15. The fuguing chants of the Papal choir sound into the dome and down the aisles, while the Holy Father ministers at the altar, and a motley crowd parade and jostle and saunter through the church.

  16. If any one doubts, let him saunter around that station until he finds the stairway and then take a good look at it.

  17. So Miranda, crouched behind the berry bushes, watched Harry Temple saunter down the street and saw with surprise that he stopped at the house of her new admiration.

  18. When much younger they had often been taken by their parents to Glasgow, and they preferred a stroll among the shipping at the Broomielaw to even a saunter in the park itself.

  19. How sweet it is when mother fancy rocks The wayward brain, to saunter through a wood; An old place full of many a lovely brook, Tall trees, green arbours, and ground flowers in flocks.

  20. Would you saunter at some of the small courts, as Brunswick, Cassel, etc.

  21. A saunter of barely half an hour's duration,' returned Carker.

  22. For a second or two nobody said a word to Nicol MacNicoll's remark, for he put the issue so cool (like an invitation to saunter along the road) that all at once it seemed a matter between him and MacLachlan alone.

  23. Shool~, to saunter idly, to become a vagabond, to beg rather than work.

  24. Slum~, to saunter about, with a suspicion, perhaps, of immoral pursuits.

  25. To take a walk is to vegetate; to saunter is to live.

  26. To saunter is a science; it is the gastronomy of the eye.

  27. Frilled promenaders saunter under the trees; white-muslin promenaderess, in green parasol, leaning on your arm.

  28. Mortals promenading homewards, in the fall of the day, saunter by, from Chaillot or Passy, from flirtation and a little thin wine; with sadder step than usual.

  29. She meets Deputies; who have built this Constitution; who saunter here with vague communings,--not without thoughts whether it will stand.


  30. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "saunter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.