How to Use gregarious in a Sentence

gregarious

adjective
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  • She is outgoing and gregarious.
  • There are the pregame chest bumps in the hallway, when the loud, gregarious winger ramps up for the game.
    — New York Times, 22 Dec. 2021
  • Jack was gregarious and the life of the party, with a keen mind and broad smile.
    — Orlando Sentinel, OrlandoSentinel.com, 17 Jan. 2018
  • For the gregarious Biles, that meant more time alone with her thoughts.
    — Sean Gregory, Time, 9 Dec. 2021
  • The gift to the city was made by a gregarious bar owner named James Osborne.
    — Paul Dorpat, The Seattle Times, 10 May 2017
  • The gregarious man at the farmer’s market fruit stand, who asks about my family in the U.S.
    — Colleen De Bellefonds, SELF, 28 Apr. 2020
  • By Loews, Bar Bourbon is just the kind of place where bar seating is some of the best in the house (gregarious bartenders help the cause).
    — Stacey Lastoe, Southern Living, 26 July 2024
  • Before the early 1980s, the gregarious birds were seldom seen north of the Rio Grande.
    — Matt Williams, Dallas News, 29 Aug. 2020
  • But the new cartoon Daniel Tiger is a gregarious cub always up for a fun playdate and a good song.
    — David G. Allan, CNN, 8 June 2018
  • The polite young man with the gregarious smile complied.
    — Holly Yan, CNN, 9 Oct. 2022
  • The mood was light, cute, with much gregarious chuckling.
    — Phillip MacIak, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Taken as a whole there was a tilt toward the gregarious.
    — Cullen Murphy, vanityfair.com, 3 Aug. 2017
  • Birders are an odd bunch, but for the most part gregarious and helpful.
    — Richie Vitale, New York Daily News, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Magee — a gregarious, fast-talking bear of a guy with sandy brown hair and a mustache — is wearing a black-and-gray chef’s coat.
    — Jill Wendholt Silva, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Meier was a gregarious immigrant in his late 30s who ran a deli in New York City.
    — Greg Miller, Smithsonian, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Greg Loyd is gregarious, seems to always be smiling and loves to talk.
    — Jeannie Roberts, Arkansas Online, 30 May 2022
  • Obloy and Kochmit are gregarious fellows who roll with the punches.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 24 Mar. 2020
  • David Jackson, the gregarious, well-loved concierge, was not.
    — Juliana Feliciano Reyes, Philly.com, 3 May 2018
  • Herrera is gregarious, and prone to talking about her work in the language of blessings and prayers.
    — Marcella Bombardieri, The Atlantic, 30 May 2018
  • Safe in the shell of his ego, my father was gregarious, and generous.
    — Debra Kamin, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2021
  • There’s a pretty patio out front and on the side and a gregarious dining room indoors.
    — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 15 July 2021
  • Each of these is a mere two-set fight, and, finally, Toby’s father is again the gregarious host of old.
    — Han Ong, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2020
  • My mom had been a theater major in college and my dad was always the most gregarious person in the room.
    — Marc Myers, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2022
  • A month later, one of my gregarious boys stopped speaking for days.
    — Nicole Mann Novick, Glamour, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Married and the father of four adult children, Dr. Hahn is widely praised as gregarious and a quick study.
    — Thomas M. Burton, WSJ, 29 Jan. 2020
  • Frost could be quite gregarious and social, with many close friends in the poetry world.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 30 June 2024
  • Brosnan says Chan was full-on gregarious around the movie's London set.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 26 June 2017
  • The shooting occurred at the home of the fourth victim, Kou Xiong, 38, a gregarious sushi chef who loved hosting parties.
    — NBC News, 31 Dec. 2019
  • Edward learns a play is being made of his life, desperately wants to star in it, and becomes jealous of the gregarious man who’s ultimately cast in the role – played by Adam Pearson, a British actor who lives with the condition.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Our family managed socially thanks to my mother’s gentle diplomacy, and to one man, a gregarious stockbroker and philanthropist, who offered my father his friendship.
    — Sage Mehta, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024

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