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Example sentences for "gadding"

Lexicographically close words:
gabions; gable; gabled; gables; gach; gade; gader; gadered; gaderyng; gadflies
  1. Now, do you not find your hearts gadding abroad even in duty?

  2. It was our bondage to be as wild asses, traversing our ways,—to be gadding abroad, to change our way.

  3. He strongly disapproved of her gadding about by herself, and told her so.

  4. At length, having reached the edge of the woods, and shut out the gadding town, we enter within their covert as we go under the roof of a cottage, and cross its threshold, all ceiled and banked up with snow.

  5. It speaks with such authority, With so serene and lofty tone, That idle Time runs gadding by, And leaves me with Eternity alone.

  6. But as often as they have gone gadding abroad to a strange Delphi and her mad priestess, their age has been dark and leaden.

  7. At Bacchus' feast none shall her meet, Ne at no wanton play, Nor gazing in an open street, Nor gadding as a stray.

  8. Thee Shepherd, thee the Woods, and desert Caves, With wilde Thyme and the gadding Vine o'regrown, And all their echoes mourn.

  9. She has in truth certain feminine qualities to an astonishing degree, particularly that benevolent anxiety to take care of the affairs of others, which keeps her continually hunting after secrets and gadding about proclaiming them.

  10. Why should she want to go away from her husband, go meeting other people, go gadding about?

  11. Sir Isaac merely thrust aside the stiff silences behind which he masked his rage to remark: "This is what happens when wimmen go gadding about!

  12. You shan't go gadding about half your time.

  13. There's Betsy, as ought to be helping, gadding out somewhere ever since she came home at seven o'clock.

  14. The country was wild and the neighbors few, and Austin saw that he would not be bothered with his children gadding among the neighbors here.

  15. Amy and Nell, as well as the younger children, had formed the habit of gadding about among the neighbors, being at home very little.

  16. I am much too busy to be gadding about," returned Elizabeth sharply; "though we have connections there, and I once spent several years in the city.

  17. Where have you been gadding to, bad girl?

  18. You won't find me gadding about in gilded jazz-palaces!

  19. I'd never have thought she was the sort of girl to go gadding around.

  20. Call it a “gadding vine” and have done with it.

  21. He went gadding off to India and brought back tigers.

  22. Tho she be young and handsome, and good-humoured to a Miracle, she does not care for gadding abroad like others of her Sex.

  23. He stands in far too much dread of the whole female sex to want to go gadding about with many of them.

  24. It comes of your gadding abroad,' said he.

  25. To revenge herself then she did not fail; He was slow in his motions for want of a tail; But well for the woman was it the while That the Queen was gadding abroad in the Nile.

  26. Be better for her if she didn't go gadding around to all these bridge-whist parties, and took some care of herself once in a while!

  27. My daughter gadding about all over the countryside in an automobile at this time of night!

  28. Do you suppose I pass my time on board ship in gadding about and feasting?

  29. It was your entertainment of my wife which gave her the taste for luxury and for gadding about.

  30. Well," he remarked, grumblingly, "you seem to find a good deal of pleasure in this gadding about!

  31. You'd better all go and ask whether I've been gadding about or not," continued Hsiao Hung.

  32. As soon as I ever put my foot outside the door, she starts gadding about; and I never see so much as her shadow, when I get home.


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