Example sentences for: man-about-town

How can you use “man-about-town” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • After all, the use of a hyphen in adverb/adjective compounds is a matter of style, which can be described in a rule: in position before a noun, compounds with well --indeed, any not ending in - ly --like well-heeled, well-known, well-thought-out , are hyphenated, as in well-heeled gambler, well-known man-about-town, a well-thought-out plan ; but when they are in predicative position, as in Is she well heeled enough to sit in on our game?

  • For example, Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary (1986) defines a man-about-town as a “wordly and socially active man.”

  • But if man sometimes means “any human being,” should not the definition of man-about-town read “a wordly and socially active person of the male sex”?

  • How can the definers be sure we will know without being told that a man-about-town is never a woman?

  • The sartorially savvy man-about-town knows that good “English” tailoring, and the textiles used, are not only to be found on Saville Row but in the meticulous workshops of Milan, Florence, and Rome.


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